PT26 Diary (Place to post how your doing...)

[Torgonius]

Dear Diary,

If I pull one more Asdrubal Cabrera card, he may be legally entitled to move into my home.

Do you know who I pay off so that packs give me any other player from the 'Perfectly Assisted' mission?

[szczepam]

Originally Posted by Hawkwing7423

Satchel Paige has been at best mediocre, usually awful for me. He's on the bench.

Nolan Ryan - 11 GS, 0-7, 6.10 ERA.
Roy Halladay - 11 GS, 2-4, 5.37 ERA.
Chris Sale - 8 GS, 1-3, 4.60 ERA.

I don't get it. Halladay and 101 Sale seem to have great stats but they don't outperform Dave Stieb. How is that possible?
Jackson Jobe with worse stats is also outperforming both of these.

I just got the 101 Chris Sale, not much data, but Roy Halladay only had 1 winning season for me out of 3 so far.

Halladay has better stats than Stieb almost across the board but is always worse, in my experience so far.

It seems like the way to win in this game is mostly get the best cards, then pray to the RNG gods.

I hate to say it, but everything just feels flawed, or at the very least strange, this year. The last two years were great and I love the product, but it's starting to feel like it might be time to move on to other things for this summer and come back hopeful in PT27, which is hard to accept though because this game has been a staple throughout the summers. Outside on a summer night, a game on TV and PT/OOTP on the laptop has been a fixture.

[Big Poppy]

Lefty Gomez won a pitching award in low Diamond last week. Haven't been able to use him since high bronze. Ted Simmons hit sub .200 for me. He won batting award last week in low Diamond. The swings are not realistic, and screw up any sort of trend analysis.

[Hawkwing7423]

Originally Posted by szczepam

I hate to say it, but everything just feels flawed, or at the very least strange, this year. The last two years were great and I love the product, but it's starting to feel like it might be time to move on to other things for this summer and come back hopeful in PT27, which is hard to accept though because this game has been a staple throughout the summers.

What bothers me the most is I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's just mostly random after a certain point.

In my league, we have for Nolan Ryan
5-5 4.98 Def eff = 2nd
0-8 6.42 *me* Def eff = 10th
7-4 4.67 Def eff = 14th
4-3 3.84 Def eff = 9th

For lack of any other explanation, I'm going with my Nolan Ryan rolled a "bad year" this year and has a hidden attribute for that, and next year he rolls again.

[Hawkwing7423]

Call me paranoid, but I think people are using variants to move points between accounts. That, or these which I got in packs have been passed up in the meta by some other cards.

I got 2 variants in packs which are "supposedly" worth points based on L10 sales.

77 SS Cristian Guzman, L10 - 32,000. I tried 25k, 15k, now 5k. No one is buying him.

59 SP Guillermo Moscoso L10 - 50,735 - I listed at 25k and we'll see, so far no bidders.

[Torgonius]

Don't start the bidding too high. You're scaring people off. Only cards that are considered meta are going to get the big bids right away.

Start low. If the variant is worth it, people will bid it up.

[LeeD]

Main team is still in High Gold and winning. Playoffs last week, nine-game lead so far this week. Pulled a variant 100 Gabby Hartnett, which is nice, although without boosts he's only a little better than Gary Carter. Getting good performances out of nearly everyone on the roster, which is always important. This includes guys like Raines and Carew, who are hitting milestones for achievement points lately. Doubt that I'll get much higher without a cash infusion since I'm pretty much out on tournament play.

edit to add: gotta give a shout out to the 100 Drysdale card. The ratings aren't slobber-worthy, but he's been a solid 4 WAR over basically two full seasons of work. 35-16, 4.21 ERA in 66 starts.

[Hawkwing7423]

The Good: Mort Cooper's off to a good year 6-1 in 12 starts and 3.79
The Bad: Nolan Ryan is struggling to get any wins at all in high gold, but has good ERA.
The Ugly: Babe Ruth got benched for Mike Trout at DH. The Babe has been an utter disappointment this year, in 53 games, 1 HR, .197 BA.

[Big Poppy]

Catchers deserve deeper discounts. What's the average GS, like 120? PAs like 450.

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Ty ootp

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[Hawkwing7423]

Any 1 of 3 certain cards can finish the Ken Griffey, Jr mission chain for me. Not for sale, for any price.

Travis Bazzana, I don't think I've seen for sale ever.

The other 2 are sky high, with Max Clark being over 150k if it's even listed and Andrew Painter 333k if even listed.

Painter hasn't been on sale for days, not that I could afford him.

[LeeD]

All cards will eventually drop in price, with the possible exception of Clubhouse Stars. That's the good news. The bad news is that they won't drop significantly until after the Junior Griffeys of the world have been bypassed by the meta.

This is the number one reason that FTP is such a challenge. Meta cards will always be just within reach or just out of reach, they are necessary if you want to succeed in Diamond or Perfect league, and at least a few of them become second-rate with each new card release, forcing you to spend again for the first-rate upgrades.

It's not the cards themselves. They are made to be disposable, at least until the cycle starts wrapping up around the beginning of next year. Two or three months from now, there will be three or four better choices than the Junior Griffey. There will be a Mantle or Mays or Cobb or Speaker that makes Junior an afterthought.

It's cash flow and the constant acquisition of new Perfect Points through whatever method. Figure that part out, because that's the problem. Spending 150,000 or 250,000 PP to complete the Griffey mission is only a symptom.

[LeeD]

That said, I'll comment that my main team got back into Diamond this week after nine weeks in Gold. Not lighting it up, but the stats and run differential are positive. Added Paige, Ryan, Cooper, and Tannehill to the staff, plus Cochrane, Harry Rice, and Jimmy Collins to the lineup. We'll see.

[Big Poppy]

Tannehill has been Roger Craig-ing me for the last 2 seasons.