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Personal disputes aside and getting back to the original topic. Is incremental improvement a smart strategy? I would say it is the most enjoyable, if not strictly speaking "best". Tanking is not fun. Buying packs is a no-no, but my plan for PT21 is to invest my initial points in building a tournament team that can WIN packs and cards. Spending $100 on packs will get you 175 packs and maybe a nice pull. But, spending $100 on a winning tournament squad can earn you 25-30 packs a week for the life of the game, providing you can keep grinding tournaments all day long. Additionally, PP should be spent completing collections that are either profitable or provide a perfect-ready player. Easy examples of this are Norm Cash, Brecheen, Kershaw, Bumgarner, Suzuki (90), or that can be completed at a profit, like Chad Green. There are a few collections that can be completed by collecting cards that earn packs, but don't spend 500 to get a player that earns you a pack! A regular pack is only guaranteed to be worth 50 points, so try not to spend more than that! For example, you should be able to complete live Baltimore for less than 1000 points and that earns you a gold pack which costs 5000, but is guaranteed to be worth (worst case) 1025 points if you get a live gold and 5 live irons. The game last two years, so if you can be patient and grind tournaments, collections and AH flipping, you can build a decent team with incremental improvement.
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