2018 season

The 2018 season player set debuted for play in Strat-O-Matic 365 on Thursday, February 28, 2019.

Roster requirement changes
Starting with the 2018 season, the minimum roster size during the season has been raised to 25 players (formerly 24), and the valid range of the number of pitchers you can/must carry during the season has been changed to 11-14 (formerly 10-12).

Player Set Construction
The 2018 season player set consists of 959 Strat-O-Matic cards:
 * 493 hitters
 * 466 pitchers

"Fluke" cards omitted
The following 10 position players have been omitted from the standard 2018 season set:


 * Tellez, Rowdy
 * O'Brien, Peter
 * Astudillo, Willians
 * Robles, Victor
 * Garcia, Aramis
 * Lin, Tzu-Wei
 * Smith Jr., Dwight
 * Holliday, Matt
 * Reyes, Pablo
 * Galloway, Isaac

The following 3 pitchers have been omitted from the standard 2018 season set:


 * Cole, Taylor
 * Poncedeleon, Daniel
 * Valdez, Framber

Managers looking to play with these "Fluke" cards can do so with the 2018 season Unleashed, which is an alternate player set that's simply the standard 2018 set plus the 13 cards above.

About Fluke cards