New Enforcers Set Question

[VOTC]

With Enforcers II coming out in October it got me thinking. There have been and continue to be goalie only sets and iTG showed, you could do hockey enforcers. But, do you think you could do this in another sport? Catchers or Quarterbacks, maybe?

[30ranfordfan]

I think it would be very hard.


The thing with goalies.... they're also amoung the most popular players on their team (very often) where I don't think catchers typically are. Pitchers in baseball might work, or Quarterbacks in football - those would be the two I'd suggest, but I don't think you can do as much with those positions as you can with goalies.


With goalies, you've got 30 starters to work with..... and at least 15 more backups are pretty good. In football, half the teams in the league have a quarterback that is somewhere between bad and terrible, and the backups everywhere are normally junk (unless the team is bucking the trend, and keeping their young up-and-commer on the bench).

Baseball, if you tried to put most MLB pitchers into a single set, I would think that many people would complain about filler... as in, too much of it. Most pitchers in the league are players that most fans have never heard of (think about it: unless you're a Rockies fan, or even NL West fan - do you know the #5 starer in Colorado.... and anymore than 2 or 3 arms in the bullpen? That sort of logic applies to MOST teams. Most people arn't going to know more than half a dozen (so about half of them) pitchers from any individual team).

[CoolHandLuke]

I could add that the fact ITF does not have a license, it's forcing them to work in niche to create a base of clients. So they need to do things differently then those with license in order to get their share of the market. In a way, ITG is very specific to hockey and I don't think such company with such acceptation with no license from collector, does not exist in other sports. In a way, we are lucky to have ITG as we, collector just happen to have more choice in product. They take a nice and make a product with it and they are popular with collectors. Now a license company can't make a full release on past player as the license state they have to make cards from current player. Now they can make a subset but not a whole release like ITG does based on a niche.

[VOTC]

Good point

[AndrewZachary]

I can't see this working in another sport. Hockey is a unique sport in that in addition to the different positions on the ice, there are a number of different roles a player can assume; power forward, grinder, pest, enforcer, etc....it is out of that aspect of the game that a set like Enforcers can come to life and I don't think this element exists in other sports.