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Originally Posted by dkgo
You can definitely give up enough runs to make sure you don't promote.
It's a flaw in the system. I went on all year last game that it doesn't make sense to design the game such that people would prefer not to win, but the incentives are misaligned.
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Yeah... as much as I’d hate this since I’m currently in the lower levels, I feel like the PPs you get should be heightened the higher the level you’re at; that is, an All Star selection in Diamond should earn you more points than an All Star selection in Rookie. That would probably help. Also, I don’t know, at some point if the pitching is bad enough, like your team ERA is over 6, maybe you’re unable to earn PPs anymore (which, yes, would encourage teams to play with ERAs right at 6, but that’s hard to accomplish without going over, just having an ERA in that range would still cause these teams loaded with diamond players to get promoted, and if teams did stuff like hold out players until late in the season or drop in bad players at the end, that’s still punishable by the rules of the game... maybe if you added a rule that if you sell a diamond or perfect player you can’t buy that card back again for one month / 4 seasons, that would cover that last loophole).
Maybe at the lowest levels it can be something as simple as, if you win 100+ games in, say, Bronze level or lower and then are relegated at the next one, your team is automatically suspended for 2 weeks. That seems harsh, as it’s extremely possible to win 100+ in F2P just by building your roster somewhat shrewdly, but 2 weeks isn’t the end of the world either...
All in all I’d hate to be in the rookie league this guy gets relegated to...