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Originally Posted by bobbycockstrong
Yeah I get that, and good for them. That is not the point. Their doing that is doing so despite a competitive disadvantage.
You could also spend 100 bucks on PP - pack absolute rubbish and put all that rubbish on your reserve roster, but still manage your way to perfect with random bronzes. Its unlikely, but Im sure there is one single person out there that spent money, got nothing from the money they spent, but still managed to get to perfect. It doesnt mean that its competitively balanced.
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I guess we see it different, maybe we have a different definition of competitively balanced. Mine would be whether or not anyone can make it to Perfect level and be competitive (winning half their games with an occasional lucky year where everything clicks).
My take is that there are three ways to be competitive even in Perfect. One is to spend the money. Second is to be lucky and get that magical lucky card you can flip. The third is to look for every competitive advantage you can (honest advantages, not scamming the system). If you don't have the money or the luck, then put in the time doing the homework and get a team that works well together and maximizes your production per PP earned. That was the reason for my comment, that the third way is possible. You can get to Perfect without a single diamond card with just a mixture of gold and silver.
A team can win a championship without spending a dime at levels below Perfect, and they can even represent well at Perfect. I don't know of any that have "won" at the Perfect level, but I also don't have all the info as to who has and what they spent. Given the number of lower leagues where teams with huge numbers of wins have been knocked out of the playoffs by a team with wins in the 80s, I don't see why those same teams can't be knocked off at the perfect level by a team that may have snuck in as a wildcard team as it has happened quite often in lower levels. Maybe that isn't competitively balanced, maybe it is. Depends on expectations.