[absurddoctor]

I've had a lot less time for OOTP this past week, but maybe that has been a good thing. I thought my Holliston Homers were going to be at the bottom of the promotion list out of last seasons Gold .301, but I must have done the math wrong and ended up staying in a Gold league. After two seasons of facing some of the tougher teams around (and sharing a rookie league with some of them), it has been kind of nice to see my team do really well this time around; it looks like we'll end up with the second best record in the league (though we were the first to clinch a division, doing so on September 4th).

I picked up a Trout from a round of pack buying, so my team is now officially cookie-cutter I think, at least on offense. I also added a Scherzer, so maybe my pitching is pretty close to cookie-cutter as well. I've been hoping to avoid that, but haven't been willing to cough up the money towards AH purchases that would make it possible (while still having a competitive team), and my pack luck has not been helpful in finding as many competitive historical cards as I would like.

My no-money team is in for its first bronze season, and was pretty dominant for most of the year, but is on track to having its first month with a losing record. I'm not sure what has changed, though if I were to guess I'd guess that I started playing teams that were getting some money behind them. The Atlantis Absurds did manage to clinch the division on September 22nd, but if my guess about the competitiveness of the rest of the league having been bumped up, it might be a short post-season for them.