The Tucson Sidewinders will advance to the gold league next year after sweeping the division series (That PP bonus was very welcome). Sadly, they fell in 6 in the subleague series, so no championship this year. Got 13k stockpiled in PP though, so there could be some pending acquisitions to improve the lineup/staff during this offseason.
But let's talk about my other team, which I haven't mentioned yet. The Miami Beach Bronze Bodies are a themeish team where I've allowed myself to use the AH for bronze players while the rest of the team comes from packs (Also a no silvers policy for the moment, so it's 3 golds and the rest are bronze). Same sort of offensive/defensive build as the Sidewinders, but I decided to go another way with the pitching. With no consideration to stuff or movement, I built an elite league leading rotation out of bronze finesse pitchers. (Outside of Denis Boucher, but he was having a real good season before the rotation makeover.)
Probably not the biggest sample size, but I was pleasantly surprised with the effect of the pitch around global strategy setting. I think because I usually just end up with what I get from the farm in franchise mode I had never specialized pitching strategy this hard, but with the settings cranked up (Max Pitch around, low IBB) I think the results speak for themselves. Also, they're going to the bronze world series in their league, because of course they should be more successful than my main team.