"Our League" Season 4--Who Wants To Play Our Way?

[HRBaker]

Agree with "Bottom of the Sixth" post. Gold is achievable if your a serious F2P player AND you don't make any mistakes. I made a number of them this year...


1. I ran 3 teams which divided my time 3 ways. I always seemed to be in a rush which, of course, made for rushed (bad) decisions. next year = ONE team period. I'll probably pull 3 teams, but only focus on the best starting roster.


2. I think I screwed up on Missions by not having a plan. For the most part, I simply completed whatever I could - but feel like I spent a lot of Points getting rewards that I didn't need. For missions to pay off, you have to know exactly what your trying to get and how to get there. I never spent enough time planning that out. Thus - the real question is, do I do missions or just stick with the AH and packs?


3. The AH will help you out a lot in the early months of the game, but as the months wear one (like now) it's unlikely you will find anything useful there that is affordable.


4. Packs = Ugh. My luck with packs in PT22 has been HORRID. I can't shake the memory of getting 2 Perfects in PT19 in the first week. This year it must have taken me 3 months to get 2 Perfects.


One team next year, I think, will be easier to manage and hopefully will be more rewarding. "IF" the OOTP team makes some improvements for "friends leagues" to help us out there, that would go a long way to keeping the F2P guys happier.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

The standing shuffled a bit as OL completed its second month of the season.

[Tinkerman]

Cary picked up a healthy 11 wins, but Helthwyzer had the best day/month, going 6-1. Knockemstiff's lead is fragile, but they managed to pip the Southpaws 2-1, and who knows, down the line that could be crucial...

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by allenciox

Well, the "good news" and the "bad news":

The good news is that Cary has added three players to its team this season that should help it get to gold playoffs: Please welcome:
SS Luke Appling
SP Vida Blue
and
SP Felix Hernandez to the team.

The bad news is that they spent half their available cash to do so and now are below 200k PP for the first time in a long time.

At any rate, please welcome the new players!

this part made me chuckle.....

the GM of Waffletown reads the news of division rival Cary's financial woes then looks at his "war chest" and sees approximately 3000 in available funds (pretty sure the high point for available funds for the Syrups was maybe 150K)

[Madmarcus]

Originally Posted by stl jason

this part made me chuckle.....

the GM of Waffletown reads the news of division rival Cary's financial woes then looks at his "war chest" and sees approximately 3000 in available funds (pretty sure the high point for available funds for the Syrups was maybe 150K)

I'm glad other teams are spending their cash. We are Mad Brewers so I guess you can't expect perfectly logical behavior but I don't think we've ever had more than 150k in the bank either.

[Charlatan]

Annandale has a lot of PP at one point in the cycle (from some very lucky pulls) but I blew most of it doing the Historical All-Star and FH#2 missions. I have been having some really poor pack luck recently so I am loath to spend anything until we see more missions.

[Tinkerman]

Heh heh, I won't tell you how much PP the Kings have in the coffers now, but it'd be enough to put gold guilt onto every piece or equipment that the team own!

Paxville haven't spent any PP on packs for months, and, frankly, I don't think I can handle dealing with any more surplus cards than I already am. So I'm probably gonna start buying the cards I want at some point , rather than opening masses of packs.

It seems like bad pack 'luck' is the general experience atm...

[HRBaker]

Gettysburg still leads, but Gem City in our shadow...


10 games for Gettysburg today while Gem City only plays 3, so a flip is certainly possible.

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by HRBaker

Agree with "Bottom of the Sixth" post. Gold is achievable if your a serious F2P player AND you don't make any mistakes. I made a number of them this year...

This is where I wrestle as to whether I play PT next season. Its turned more and more into a mission/card collecting game that I have not interest in. Any mission either of my teams competed have been from pack pulls and me checking the mission screen once every few weeks. I only just got Trammel and Cy Young today for the Warriors. So the dilemma is I need to be satisfied with a middle of the road gold team that can make some noise from time to time or spend time doing things that don't interest me to improve. You would think you play to build a winner. I have (or should say had-been a while) been lucky with pack pulls and I am sitting on some live 98's and 99's hoping they hit 100.

If I do come back it will def will be one team and a more causal play style. Much more happy with the stripped down Sugar Hill team and may do the same to Coney Island just to make it appealing.

There is a line in the Warriors movie when they get off the subway in Coney Island, as they pan Coney Island from the elevated tracks their leader Swan says "This is what we fought all night to get back to?" I can spin into it into "I did all this for a barely above mediocre gold team?"

[IanIachimoe]

Diamond 354 up to, but not including, 6/8/2042

Annandale 3-0
Nowhere 2-1
Silly 3-3
Lemp 1-5

too early to call anything. not much action yet & everyone is still in the hunt.

[Tinkerman]

Originally Posted by IanIachimoe

Diamond 354

Very interesting to see no other friend groups in Diamond...!!

[Charlatan]

Tell the truth I am not terribly upset that we placed in a different league from DLL. Those guys are too good!

[Magus978]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Tell the truth I am not terribly upset that we placed in a different league from DLL. Those guys are too good!

The majority of them are megawhale elitists. The only result you can expect is to get your skulls caved in by them.

The more often F2P groups like OL and BFF get kept away from DLL, the better off they will be.

[IanIachimoe]

Originally Posted by Tinkerman

Very interesting to see no other friend groups in Diamond...!!

hadn't thought about that until your post. interesting.

[IanIachimoe]

Originally Posted by Magus978

The majority of them are megawhale elitists. The only result you can expect is to get your skulls caved in by them.

The more often F2P groups like OL and BFF get kept away from DLL, the better off they will be.

I don't mind the OL/BFF pairing, I mostly enjoy it. F2P vs F2P is always fun.

DLL is another story & rarely ends well

[Magus978]

Originally Posted by IanIachimoe

I don't mind the OL/BFF pairing, I mostly enjoy it. F2P vs F2P is always fun.

DLL is another story & rarely ends well

That's perfectly fine. I personally have a huge incentive to do well against BFF teams considering my checkered history within the group and my eventual ouster because I refuse to tolerate any kind of failure, and I wouldn't stay silent about it. Apparently I'm supposed to lose with a smile. <CENSORED> that and the horse it rides on.

Got me considering starting my own F2P group for 23 and calling it the First Family, going further on the friend policy and going all out to make sure that ALL of us win, whether it be on the field or in the auction house.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

Originally Posted by Edster007

This is where I wrestle as to whether I play PT next season. Its turned more and more into a mission/card collecting game that I have not interest in. Any mission either of my teams competed have been from pack pulls and me checking the mission screen once every few weeks. I only just got Trammel and Cy Young today for the Warriors. So the dilemma is I need to be satisfied with a middle of the road gold team that can make some noise from time to time or spend time doing things that don't interest me to improve. You would think you play to build a winner. I have (or should say had-been a while) been lucky with pack pulls and I am sitting on some live 98's and 99's hoping they hit 100.

If I do come back it will def will be one team and a more causal play style. Much more happy with the stripped down Sugar Hill team and may do the same to Coney Island just to make it appealing.

There is a line in the Warriors movie when they get off the subway in Coney Island, as they pan Coney Island from the elevated tracks their leader Swan says "This is what we fought all night to get back to?" I can spin into it into "I did all this for a barely above mediocre gold team?"

Trammel is a BIG game changer as you should be seeing already. My version doesn't hit many HR's however, he is a RBI machine.


Since PT19, I have always played using one team. I have no idea how the guys who run 3-6 PT teams can find the time and energy to do it justice.


Granted things are not setup the same way as PT21 however, my team is doing better this year playing Pack-Only than compared to past years when I was pouring a ton more hours into the game, every week, while playing using the AH.


Scanning the AH all the time looking for a "better" player, that may never work out or trying to pick up a player at a "steal of a price", who is part of a quick fire-sale, is very mentally exhausting, week after week; at least for me it was!


Pack-Only is alot less stressful as you can only use players you get from your packs!


To look at it differently, in a fun way, this kind of play mirrors real life baseball, in that you can only use players from within your "farm system".

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by Bottom Of The Sixth

Trammel is a BIG game changer as you should be seeing already. My version doesn't hit many HR's however, he is a RBI machine.

I sold Trammel and Young. I have stayed firm (while I have no objection to people playing them) to not play those cards. Without looking in gold I would guess the two appear on 20+rosters, my team may suffer because of that but at least I am different.

I think the key is finding the way to make the game fun for yourself, whether its packs only a theme etc.

I am enjoying GO on my iPad so it gives me a needed break from worrying about PT and that keeps PT a little fresher.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

Originally Posted by Edster007

I sold Trammel and Young. I have stayed firm (while I have no objection to people playing them) to not play those cards. Without looking in gold I would guess the two appear on 20+rosters, my team may suffer because of that but at least I am different.

I think the key is finding the way to make the game fun for yourself, whether its packs only a theme etc.

I am enjoying GO on my iPad so it gives me a needed break from worrying about PT and that keeps PT a little fresher.

In past years, I did not play any SE cards, I sold them all, too however, back then 85% of all teams had them too.


This year it is different, from what I am seeing.




I am big into playing my games/sims on a computer so I have not attempted to look at GO.


What are you playing on it and what do you like and don't like about it?

[Tinkerman]

With the crappy scheduling, the teams with a larger and more diverse fixture list will be far more deserving of a crown than Knockemstiff (i.e. Cary). Of course, that means nothing, so we'll see how the second half goes...