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Originally Posted by bc_irish
Hi guys, super helpful info here. I just found OOTP last weekend and am having a blast with Perfect Team. Any other tips or budget player recommendations you can offer a noob? Thx!
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Enjoy it.
In the early levels, you can gradually upgrade your team. Look at positional needs. Pay attention to the ratings, not necessarily the Overall card rating.
Maximize your time in the entry pool. Make your ballpark effects as hitter friendly as possible (and probably keep it that way through Rookie at least) so you can get more PP for big hitting. Maybe invest some PP in a slugger (you can always sell the player any-time so thing of it as a 'lease'.... but remember there is a 10% Tax when you sell a player).
Spam tournaments. Early-on, there is a low barrier of entry into Iron and low cap tournaments. You can build a quality iron team for not much PP. Even if you just randomly have the CPU set your team and lineup you will still get lucky once in awhile. The most well-known Iron tourney staples are probably Don Newcombe and Vic Power. Go into the tournaments after they conclude (you have 24 hours) and look at what cards the finalists are playing as well as how their rotation is, bullpen, any Platoons, etc. Think of it as scouting.
Do the live collection missions with your PP. Try not to lock the best cards. For instance, you need 26 players on the Brewers. You have 26, and 2 of them are Diamonds, and 2 players you dont have are Silvers. As enticing as it is to pull the trigger and get the reward, you want to dump those Diamonds and lock the Silvers instead (you can never sell players locked in to complete missions). Live Golds and Diamonds do have use in Live tournaments, but as you move up the Promotion ladder (and complete live missions), the Live Cards become more and more worthless.
Go on the twitch streams. Kris runs a fun tournament every Monday, and Thursday releases news, cards, missions, etc. There are also PP giveaways (soon they might roll out drops of pp, cards, packs, etc). There are also some great 'solitaire' streams. Tonight there is a double-header of a White Sox one followed by a Reds dynasty. You will pick up a ton.
You can also run a historical 'replay' every 72 hours to get a pack. Many people run the 27 Yankees and get a pack that way.