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You’re not missing anything — Perfect Team intentionally has big season-to-season variance. Even identical Perfect cards can perform very differently on different rosters.
• You’re probably missing a few “super-perfects” (101–104) that quietly separate the best Gold/Diamond teams from everyone else.
• Normalization matters: PT adjusts the yearly run environment, so some cards run hot or cold depending on the meta.
• Variance is cranked up on purpose: If every Honus, Pedro, or Mantle performed identically, the upper leagues would all look the same.
• The climb gets brutal: Above Silver, you’re competing with people who invest serious money or serious spreadsheet time. Diamond/Perfect is basically a membership tier.
• Strategy only matters at the edges: Not using the strategy tab isn’t sinking you, but it also won’t override variance.
• Some of it really is just dice rolls: PT still simulates randomness under the hood — streaks, slumps, outliers, all intentional.
Bottom line: your cards aren’t worse — PT just has more randomness and meta-dependent performance than a normal OOTP league. Even the same players can have wildly different results season to season.
One more thing; Competing in PT this late in the year is even more than brutal if your looking to do better than Gold. Most of the members your playing against have been polishing their team for the better part of the year. Catching up with them at this point requires significant resources of either time or money.
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