Make Perfect Team values a function of market price
This will be a controversial suggestion, but I'd like to see a player's overall value be a function of the market price rather than an arbitrary function of the player's statistics. I can't tell you how sick I am of playing the same team over and over in tournaments. In bronze historical, for example (yes, I'm new to PT), it seems like at least half the teams are pretty much exactly Lavalliere, W Parker, Mayo or Carew, Bowa, Madlock, Suzuki, Gwynn, and I can't remember which LF. I'm guilty of this myself! Some bronze players are simply more effective than others (esp. Lavalliere!).
So, if the overall values were a function of AH prices, then Lavalliere's value would rise, and he'd be priced out of the bronze-level tournaments. So managers would be incentivized to find lesser-used players rather than overspending to create the same team as everyone else. It really takes the fun out of tournaments when Iwakuma is pitching against Iwakuma and Carew is the MVP but he plays for both teams so who cares. I think most people will agree that the calculated overall value is a pretty arbitrary statistic anyway, so why not make it reflect something more meaningful: general market demand?
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