The Statis Pro Notebook

Number One

The 1950 Home Brewed Set

Making a set of Statis Pro cards takes a lot of work. I spent a month or two doing this, including printing and cutting. I tried very hard to ensure a perfect set was made, and during the course of play, discovered a couple of cards were off by a number or two. I found this out the hard way, after everything was printed, and after I had already begun playing. I'd see a hit range end at say, 21, and the next number would be 23, and I'd think, what the hey?? But the biggest gaff was the card of the great Ralph Kiner of the Lecheros. Kiner's card was the worst, just way off the mark, and I'm not sure how I messed that one up, but there you go. Not getting into too much detail, he hit singles to 14, doubles to 18, tripled at 21, and his HR rating was 22-31. Clean. So far, so good. The first thing I noticed, and mind you, this was after a few games were already played, was that his K range was 32-35 and his walk range was 41-58. Big gap between the two, huh! I had already erased the raw stats from the excel file I used to make the set, overlaying it with AL ratings, so I had to break out the ol' calculator and re-do Ralph's card. Everything up to his HR rating checked out, but the rest of the numbers were way, way out...His K range is now 32-48, and he walks 51-76. Yowsers! He has one HBP number at 77, and is out 78-88. Pretty dangerous card. Too bad he's in D2.

I had planned to put all the cards on the website as PDF files for everyone to download, but with these errors, I'd be embarrassed! Also, I don't have the software to bundle all the pages into one file, so we're talking about 45, 46 pages, and each one is a huge file, as I still can't figure how to compress the files so they would be small enough to download. Kinda sucks. At any rate, since I don't have any future projects planned for this game, this will be the last home brewed card set I will make. I've already made two others. The first 5Y season used SP, as did the fourth, so I home brewed the '98 and '01 NL, and now the '50 MLB season. That's enough! Hopefully, we'll see some fairly accurate stats at the end of the year!!