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Originally Posted by mayday10
his reason he gave isnt really strategic to win games though. Just milking points by getting him up as many times as possible, grabbing the leadoff the game with an HR 20 PP score, DH for not needing to rest, and setting his whole lineup just to feed a few baserunners for RBIs.
Didnt show his pitching staff or the rest of the team, but it must be awful.
He had Kiner alone racking him up >10K points/season for like 5 seasons. If you cant climb out of rookie with that funds (plus whatever earned through entry pool, other achievos, and having a Diamond SE Kiner himself).... you are purposely holding back.
Im guessing he is laying way off the accelerator, building points (in the video he has like 85K), maybe even hiding players he buys.... then at some point, turn on the juice and pulverize the lower leagues in a 3-4-year succession.
Im not sure what to think of it. It doesnt affect me. It just feels like exploiting the points system and rookie league a bit. But it also seems smart. He also is nice enough to make a good video of it and explain the strategy for others to try.
I guess it goes to show there are many ways to go about things in the PT 21 universe.
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OK, but I remember there was a lot of talk about how the M's should have made Edgar Martinez their leadoff hitter in the 90s because of the OBP. Even if it's being done for the "wrong" reasons, sorting your lineup top to bottom by OBP is actually not the worst strategy in the world (and on top of that, going ham with high-OBP players, particularly ones with high Eye ratings, means your guys will use more pitches per PA and get more PAs, which in turn will mean you get deep into your opponent's bullpen more often).
You're still going to wind up winning a lot of games that way. If you're straight up, say, leaving diamond-level players inactive while you start iron players in order to drop to the Rookie leagues so that you can clean up on new players, that's parasitic behavior that's against the spirit of PT. Or, if you develop a hybrid strategy that "earns" you a lot of points while you still lose a lot of games (most notably IME finding bugs to allow you to play players grossly out of position), that's also against the spirit. It's even "nice" to have one of these players in your league because they can wind up being a huge source of PP revenue for you (I got like 20k PP from one season being with a player like that) but it's still game imbalancing and if they aren't caught while they're tanking they'll use their ill-gotten gains to shoot up the ladder later on, displacing those who came across their teams legitimately (or, hell, by paying to win, which is itself a legit strategy).