Barry,
I have done a lot of mathematics on the Strat-O-Matic cards. I am a math prof so I love it when baseball and math collide (as they often do). About twenty years ago, pre-kids, I was working on my own computer version of the strat-o baseball game and I learned a great amount of knowledge of strat-o-matic from doing this. I had to transfer all of the baseball information into numbers. It was a lot of fun to make the results computer friendly and more work than I could do now with kids. So I figured out how Strat-O has to assemble the cards.
You pointed out that Bonds doesn't have a single on his card, but he had plenty of singles that year. The reason that there are no singles on his card is that he will pick up the singles on the pitchers' cards. The way the cards need to be done is to make sure that the average of Bonds' card combined with the average pitcher's card yields Bonds' true stats of the year.
I could go into detail, but it might bore you. If you are interested in details, let me know and I'll send you an E-mail. I'm sorry. I get on a roll when I can think math and baseball at the same time.
Take care.
Cy
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