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Originally Posted by Maddox
I am not sure sandbagging would be overly effective. You would be giving up potential PP this season to try and earn more next season but who is to say that you it wouldn't earn as much on average if you just played out each season?
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Well, if I decide to go that route then that's what we're going to find out.
1. If I sandbagged, I'd arrange my roster in such a way that would maximize my pp output while losing. There's no direct tie between winning and pp; you can lose a game 16-2 and still earn more pp than your opponent.
I don't think I'd earn as much, but I'd be playing specifically to earn pp instead of to win. So who knows if that would even be true? If I did earn less, I don't think it would be as huge of a drop as you think.
2. On the way back up, I'd have a fair chance of winning pp nearly every game. Even getting more than 1 achievement in a game. And some of those achievements with an exceptional effort are huge. If I get one of those 3000 pp achievements, which is perfectly likely with a powerful team playing a default team 80 times a year, that would virtually make the experiment pay off by itself. And what if I do that 2 times, or 3?
And then I'd earn pp for making the playoffs, and being promoted. And after that I'd be in the same league I'm in now, with a bunch more pp than I have now, and I'll likely dominate that competition, too.
I'm not sure I'm going to try it yet. If this season goes well and I see a chance to become some kind of Major League champion in the beta, I'm going to take it since that likely won't happen in the real game.
But if I do try it, it will at least be an interesting study because some people will surely attempt the same thing after PT goes live.