I don't know if you left this out on purpose:

The amount your opponent has behind is extremely important to your opening standards and opening hands. Spoon suggests that cold calling preflop in position is the nuts, but he doesn't suggest that if the cold call is with 66 for 1/2 of the effective stack, you're losing money. But if you're cold calling with 66 for 1/15th of the effective stack, You're in a good position to make the mahnies.

Same goes for calling suited connectors. I've seen Supersystem suggesting that you could risk 10% of your stack with suited connectors. I've been corrected and told that 5% is about as high as you should be willing to go HU. That thresh-hold can rise as more players enter the pot (Ie Pre-flop raiser, and 2 cold callers with you on the button with 78s), you can risk a tad more than that just because of the sheer amount of money in the pot already. (7% ish? gleamed from the same area my ass happens to be)

The effective stack is the smallest stack involved when placing 2 players in a vacuum.

So if you have 100bb and your opponent has 50bb, the effective stacks are 50bb
Same Scenario with another opponent having 200bb. When you compare him and yourself the effective stack is 100bb.

The most important "opening hand chart" concept to learn is the fact that the value of a NL starting hand is how much value it extracts from your opponent. In fact: Comparing whether a hand is better or worse than another one is worse than worthless. Just because AA beats 22 80% of the time the 20% of the time you do win, if you extract maximum value from your opponent, you can completely justify the speculation. Suited connectivity extracts more value long term, but also struggles to hit as often. Large pairs are front loaded in their value, as they tend to get a lot of money early, but as the board grows more dangerous and complicated, their ability to extract value, or in fact be valuable in themselves is less and less.