[Tiger Fan]

If you still have room for one more I would like to join as well. Just discovered this thread today, ironically the same day I decided to sell of my few remaining 'live' players and focus entirely on a historical team.

My team was created the first day Perfect Team 20 opened and after a couple of average seasons I lucked out by drawing a 98 rated Jackie Robinson card in a pack. I debated a bit but finally decided to sell him and used the 80k in points I got to greatly improve my team.

That first season after the auction house spree I made the playoffs in gold and won my first- and only so far - playoff series. The result was a promotion to diamond where my team was just good enough to not get bumped back down to gold. Somehow I earned a wildcard berth in diamond last season after winning a one game tie-breaker, but I lost the wildcard game in 12 innings (Dave Stieb surrendered a 3-run homer and was subsequently dispatched to the auction house). I vowed never to own a Blue Jay player again, although my bias against the Jays started decades before Stieb’s gopher ball.

This season I realized I will never win in diamond with the team I have, and I would never earn enough points to substantially upgrade as I am strictly free play, so I decided to retool my team by going exclusively with historical players.

In solo play I always gravitate towards historical rather than modern day so I decided to do the same with my Perfect Team and focus on getting players I liked. I already had Mark Fidrych and Hank Greenberg and purchased my all-time favourite Tiger in Alan Trammell (had to settle for the 1987 version as the '84 was too rich for my blood).

I also had Bob Feller, Steve Carlton, Mel Ott and a few others I enjoy following in my solo historical sims so I decided I will build my team around them. I also renamed my team the CliffMarkle Roadrunners. Cliff Markle is in honour of the greatest pitcher in my very first OOTP historical dynasty (back in the days of OOTP2) and I used the Roadrunners because I liked the uniform and logo made TxRanger in his great graphics thread.

I may end up back in gold next season but so far my team is holding it's own so, with a little luck, I could remain a diamond level club. So that's a quick history of my club.