Is this cheating/tanking
 

I have a team with 6 Perfect titles and 100,000 points. The AH is overpriced and lacks the right priced talent to update my team.

If I put my current team in reserve and buy 100 packs and see how good my team would be with a pack only criteria, is this wrong? I am just taking a packs only strategy to see how good a 100 packs would create a team. But since 100 packs may not be as good as the team I created I am considered a tanker?

Yes, but who is going to know? None of the 29 owners of abandoned teams in your league will report you.

I'd consider it a packs only theme team personally, since you're still trying to win.

The problem even with this is that switching to a more restrictive theme at higher levels is usually considered tanking by the community.

So, yeah, it is still questionable team behavior under the most liberal of definitions, and this community is not known for its forgiving nature or for assuming the best in anyone.

And I focus on the community's response because any official responses are not normally made public, and what little direction they have given has not been clear at all, often muddying the waters further with vague definitions and contradictions.