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Originally Posted by Dogberry99
FTP players have another game they can play - the lottery. Scoring an elite historic card from a pack can net a significant amount of points that will vault a FTP team light years ahead of their peers. As the Auction House crashes, the payouts for being this lucky are diminishing however.
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One crucial point of emphasis: In my opinion, no FTP player should be spending actual PP on pack buying. It's important for a FTP to hit something reasonable in packs in order to vault into competitive play, but those packs should be solely the twice-weekly offline play PT packs. The EV of ripping packs is just terrible, and the most effective FTP strategy is to spend every last point of PP income wisely.
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Originally Posted by Orcin
I think it is pointless to discuss money spent - the evaluation should be made on points spent. It doesn't matter how you obtained the points.
It takes at least 500,000 points to build a competitive Perfect Leagues team. You could probably be competitive in Diamond for 100,000 points.
The gold to diamond gap is far less than the diamond to perfect gap.
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I agree that PP value is the right way to think about it, but I think the bar is a lot lower. My Perfect League World Series-winning team has a cost of ~250k PP at current market prices, and I think it could reasonably compete for WS shots on a regular basis based on their performance and run differential. Another team, costing ~200k PP, could arguably compete for a WS after nabbing a wild card berth or division title in an off year. The final team, costing ~100k PP, is going to hover around .500 or so and probably won't ever make the playoffs, but they're also in no threat of being relegated. All of these teams would also completely steamroll any diamond league. I think you can generically dominate most any Perfect League with a 500k PP roster, but by no means is that the lower bound on being able to compete for PL World Series trophies.