Thank you again to all that responded (and have helped).
David, Clayton - appreciate the kind words
Marc - best of luck on your continued journey - I'll be happy to continue to help out going forward - it is certainly not a sprint!
T205 - good luck! You picked the hardest team in the entire set. Boston Natl and Chicago Amer are at the top of the difficulty list, by good bit. Lowdermilk was definitely
not the hardest - even some of the Recruit class cards are on par with his.
Using Tim Newcomb's rating (see the VCBC articles) averaged by team... my experience lines up closely with his survey data.
| Team | League | # Cards | Difficulty |
| Boston |
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| Amer | 18 | 30.94 |
| Nat | 14 | 23.36 |
| Brooklyn |
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| Nat | 14 | 30.86 |
| Chicago |
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| Amer | 20 | 23.45 |
| Nat | 10 | 36.40 |
| Cinn |
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| Nat | 10 | 31.40 |
| Cleveland |
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| Amer | 18 | 34.11 |
| Detroit |
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| Amer | 11 | 38.55 |
| New York |
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| Amer | 10 | 40.00 |
| Nat | 13 | 50.31 |
| Phila |
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| Amer | 11 | 39.18 |
| Nat | 9 | 39.11 |
| Pittsburg |
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| Nat | 15 | 31.53 |
| St Louis |
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| Amer | 10 | 30.40 |
| Nat | 14 | 38.21 |
| Washington |
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| Amer | 9 | 48.00 |