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Originally Posted by tykond
Why do you build a team for each level? Do you have a preference in tournament level?
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I enjoy researching players, crunching numbers, scouring the Auction House, and building teams, so this gives me something to do while I raise PP/rip packs for the main teams. It also prompts me to learn about old timey players like Billy Rogell and Bruce Petway, which satisfies the baseball historian in me.
I also like having the versatility of choosing which types of tournaments I want to join, which prevents me from having to wait for tournaments to fill. For instance, if I only have an Iron tournament team built for each of my 3 teams, and my team A just joined the Iron Bo5 and Bo7 tournaments, I need to wait for them to fill up before my team B can do the same. If I have Silver, Bronze, and Iron tournament teams, I have many more tournaments for my franchises to choose from.
I am also starting to look into the weekly tournaments, which yield some nice cards as prizes. The more levels I can field teams at, the more of those prizes become reachable. I think the more economically rational strategy would be to focus on PP Quick Start tournaments, but it would be fun to win or place in one of the big ones too.
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How are you so successful at this? I had a great week a few weeks ago, and maybe I got 20 packs. I was elated. I have been keeping stats and tinkering with lineups and I still don't feel like my success or failure has changed.
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The shelter in place helps, as I am at home and able to check the tournaments more frequently than if I were at work. If I were at work as usual, I would have won fewer packs simply because I wouldn't have the opportunity to sign up for tournaments as often.
As for my strategy, I gather data to figure out which players perform best in which tournaments. I'm still losing most of my tournaments, but I'm in the money with more than 12.5% of the tournaments, which means that the roster choices have helped (1 out of 8 teams win something in most tournaments). For instance, a quick check of one of my teams indicates that it won packs or PP in 5 out of its last 16 tournaments. Not an amazing win percentage, but much better than a random number generator.