Comments on: I GOT THE NEW CARDS!!!

By: Teddy Ballgame

Teddy Ballgame — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:40:30 +0000

Funny you should comment on Chris Burke’s card, I just chose it, looking for an obscure card, that wasn’t particularly good. At one time I thought Burke would be Craig Biggio’s heir apperant at secondbase in Houston, I don’t think I was alone.

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:29:52 +0000

Ever since I started the Card Computer, getting the cards represents Judgement Day. How well did I do at computing an accurate APBA card? This Chris Burke card says to me – “not very well!”.

I’ve got a lot of work to do:
- I gave Burke a 22. APBA covered the HBPs with a 15 at 53.
- APBA prefers an 11 to a 10 and a 14* to represent the SBs.
- in the second column, I gave 2-2-2-5-5 instead of APBA’s 2-2-2-4-5; APBA gave one fewer 6 than I.

One of the things that makes Burke’s card computationally interesting is the relatively high number of IBBs (8 in 207 PA). That probably accounts for the inaccuracies in the second column.

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:27:04 +0000

heh I remember the year we got the cards ON THE DAY OF THE DRAFT. We were all at your place for the league convention.

You were all excited because Gary Carter got 2 31s. You kept yelling, “It’s Christmas! It’s Christmas!”