Please know that thanks to alert Strat-O-Matic customers – the best baseball fans in the world – we have been able to correct ballpark ratings just in time to keep our 2006-season card and computer products on schedule.

These alert customers discovered inaccurate ballpark statistics published by the company that supplies Strat-O-Matic with this data. If not for these alert fans, Strat-O-Matic likely would have printed flawed ballpark ratings for the 2006 season.

The ballpark ratings that are distributed with the 2006 board games and computer games have been corrected. The ratings published in Strat-O-Matic’s Baseball Ratings Book went to press prior to these changes, please refer to our website for the posted revised ballpark ratings. Please ignore any contrary ratings published elsewhere.

The changes made at the 11^th hour of our ratings process mean that the calculations for some players are very slightly different than they would have been. To have accounted for this slight difference would have caused at least a month’s delay in the release of the 2006-season cards and computer products. However, our tests show that the variances are well within the expected high-confidence levels of mathematical standard deviation. The 2006-season ratings should perform at the high levels of accuracy that Strat-O-Matic customers have come to expect.

The ballpark ratings have always varied from season to season, based on multi-year averages. The ratings are often influenced by weather changes, new stadiums, and changes to the structures of existing stadiums (fence distances, wall heights, etc.). So it is with the 2006 ratings.

We at Strat-O-Matic are grateful to our fans and are proud to count them as our loyal customers.