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Originally Posted by Ty Cobb
I've long advocated for a pro/rel model based on the 25 highest rated cards of your roster, active/inactive/reserve. That would essentially destroy the ability to tank save by gutting your roster...which would remove the incentive to.
I'd also advocate for a 'trading deadline' in PT...no actual roster changes made after a certain time as far as playoffs go. Realism...it matters
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Agree with all of this, and would like to propose one step further: a ratings cap on the lower levels of the PT universe. If you look at the all-time Team & Player Records (Main -> Perfect Team Universe -> Team & Player Records tab), you will see most records were set by absolutely top tier cards (FotF Hornsby, Cobb, Johnson, etc.) on teams in Rookie and Stone leagues.
What I assume is happening is that P2W players deliberately underperform in the placement league (in a way that still maximizes perfect points gains), to guarantee being seeded in Rookie. Then they load up their team and gather unimaginable (to me) amounts of PP's in the seasons spent in the lower leagues, beating up on the regular/actual (
) players.
To give an (anonymized) example: there is a team whose players show up quite frequently on the all time leaderboards, with a bunch of records set in a recent Rookie League season. That same team is now in a Bronze league with an 85-4 record (46-0 at home, so they might even be cheesing it up all the way to the top
)
Somehow this same team has only compiled a 1510-1082 (.583) lifetime record so far, so I guess they deliberately staved off promotion in certain years to farm some more points?
Regardless of how this was achieved (P2W, gaming the system, or a combination of both), I think outcomes like these should not be part of a healthy competitive universe.
If P2W players are the preferred customers within the PT ecosystem, please - devs - develop a system whereby those players can achieve their goals (reaching the upper levels of competition without putting in a lot of effort playing the game?) without ruining the lower leagues that have the misfortune of hosting them, and without reinforcing the already present P2W bias by allowing these teams to farm huge amounts of points on the way up the pyramid.