[Charlatan]

It’s been said a number of times but when you play the collection rewards on your team you will do great at lower levels but as you get higher and higher, those reward card’s flaws will become more and more obvious. So for instance you might need to platoon some guys did fine at lower levels. Or maybe their defense just isn’t quite up to snuff anymore. Or maybe there is a high-priced card who can replace your guy.

Another thing to keep in mind is that at higher levels average team quality is higher so while you might have been able to beat up on a few teams at the lower levels when you get to gold and diamond almost all the teams are going to have many good players on it so even the teams that are doing poorly can spank your team.

At higher levels you will also run into teams that are effectively using their ballpark dimensions to favor their team and disfavor your team. So look at what your competitors are doing with their ballpark and see if you can understand their strategies better. For example, one fairly common strategy is to have all left handed starting pitchers and adjust your ballpark to suppress right handed batting. That means when your team visits their ballpark you stick in your right handed batters against their pitching and they play left-handed batters so they have an extra advantage in hitting against you.

Lastly, since OOTP has restricted teams getting into perfect that means the competition at diamond and gold is going to be that much tougher. In PT20 when a team was really loaded it would shoot up to the perfect league quickly. Now many of them get stuck at diamond so you’re facing a lot of loaded teams in diamond who just can’t win the World Series to get promoted.

So the bottom line is, it gets more difficult to higher you go and requires you to think about your team a little more carefully!