[QuantaCondor]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

I see others going with different themes, and decided to do the same. I got promoted to Diamond last season, and have quickly decided it's not for me. Quite frankly I'm sick and tired of seeing Greg Maddux beat Greg Maddux. Oh BTW, my Ichiro got 2 dbls and a triple, yours only got 2 dbls.

Unless you have mostly all perfects, you are just hanging around. I had 4 perfects and mostly Diamonds, a lot of them from the Live Missions. Looking at the competition, I don't have a chance unless I'm willing to spend moocho PP for a lot of perfects.

Well , that doesn't interest me so I decided I was going to get rid of all my perfects and diamonds that weren't locked and play only Golds. So I guess I messed up by deciding to do that and have now been warned for tanking and if my lineup is not restored to competitive within 24 hrs I'm gone.

Well, I can't restore to competitive as was, I sold the cards or they're in the Auction House.

I messed up, it's on me. I accept full responsibility for my actions I thought I could switch and do a theme of only playing Gold Cards. My bad, so sorry.



Please understand, this is not a gripe. Just want to explain what I did wrong. It's my first year playing PT, I only play 1 team and I'm just having a bit of fun with it. I got fooled early on into thinking that I could be competitive at the higher levels with all those nice live missions, and went for it. That was a learning experience for me.

It's easy to say "well he has more black borders than me, I have no chance". That way, you don't have to accept that a deep dive into the game engine, teambuilding, roster construction, and so on can build a really strong roster with few or zero perfects required. But there are a lot of F2P teams, many with really cheap team costs, who have been successful. By contrast, a league I was in a few weeks ago saw like 6 teams with 10+ historical perfects go <.500 because the rest of the league and its mostly-diamond teams were really well constructed.

If you want to explore making a good team, I would pick a set of park factors and really commit your entire roster to building around those. That can make you competitive with anyone-- I was in PL last week and put up a respectable 76-86 record using just 2 perfects: SE Yogi at the start of the week and 100 CL Lee Smith (who was fine but not especially elite) picked up midweek. There is more to PT than looking at shiny high rarity stuff and thinking that will win your games.