Season 1 (2020) - Now It Counts...

Magus978 · 03-23-2020, 07:46 AM

Now that abbreviated entry pool play is out of the way, the first proper season of PT 3.0 can get underway. As always, this is the place where you can discuss your league placement, the teams around you, and your hopes and dreams for the week ahead.

The Steelport Saints have been placed in Iron .178. With the other four teams in their AC West division still looking like starter teams, the Saints are heavy favorites to take a division title. However, they are not the favorites to win it all. That title goes to either the Singapore Sluggers or the Saginaw Stripers, both in the AC Central. As those two will be beating each other up all season, the road to the #1 seed in the conference is wide open for the Saints to run down.

Over in the other conference, the clear favorite are the H-Town Herd...but this is baseball we're talking about, so all things are possible.

For the first time this cycle...good luck, have fun, and don't die!

Marleigh · 03-23-2020, 08:07 AM

no idea how to change/remove sigs so just going with it

Team 1 - Paragon City Heroes Iron League 164, mostly consists of collection players, expecting decent power numbers, not much D outside of Tulo

Team 2 - Pachuca Pack Rats Rookie League 99, pack only team F2P team, and as such the quality of players varies massively, 88 Rocky Colavito should blast a few though

Team 3 - Lowdown Lugnuts Stone League 147 no real theme other than all historical. 92 Frank Robinson was packed so we are building around him, but we have zero pitching a lot of D in Alley/Sabo/Oester, some speed. Not expecting big things from this one though

Justinw303 · 03-23-2020, 08:17 AM

Saginaw was in my entry pool, absolute beast of a whale. Good luck with them!

My pro team is in Iron, favorites to win their division, FTP team in Stone. Excited to see how the more dynamic promotion/relegation system works in action!

Already spotted a theme team in my iron league, the Jimmy Jams. Seems to be a collection of people named Jim, or variations of. Love it!

Perceptor · 03-23-2020, 08:38 AM

Looking forward to the season

Warhawk · 03-23-2020, 08:49 AM

White Tigers are in the NC Central in Iron .175, looks like our stiffest competition will be from Miami in the NC West. Florida in the NC west looks solid too, and there are about 3 teams in the AC similar to them as well.

Sun Kings are in Stone .153. Black Knights are in Rookie .67 and still don't have a starting pitcher better than 68 OVR.

sam10gle · 03-23-2020, 09:15 AM

Good luck everyone!

skep · 03-23-2020, 09:19 AM

Last year I didn't care about my teams that much, I was mostly interested in tournaments. I wanted to change that this year, so I made the FTP challenge which incorporates tournaments, collections and base PT. Now I care! My strategy was to shoot for Rookie League by selling off the cream to pay for Iron, Bronze and Silver tournament teams. I figured that more leagues to get through means more play against weaker competition and more PP! I ended up with...

Red Bandits - Rookie .90
Watermelon Bandits - Stone .151
Pink Bandits - Rookie .112

HelpDodgers · 03-23-2020, 09:36 AM

Belfast here.

The Belfast Dodgers are in iron 160; and my FTP teams Miamisburg Vikings are in iron 154 and The Moo are in iron 161.

Time to sit back and enjoy for a while.

Belfast started off with an extra inning win.

Warhawk · 03-23-2020, 09:47 AM

Well, 3 wins so far, White Tigers won in 10 innings in their opener, 2-0. Maddux threw 8 scoreless innings on 7 hits and 0 walks with 11 Ks, then Nathan got 3 outs on 3 pitches in the 9th, and Gordon got 3 on 9 pitches in the 10th. We got the winning run in the top of the 10th on a sac fly by Cano, and Berra drew a walk to drive in the second run.

Perceptor · 03-23-2020, 09:48 AM

My new staff will hopefully make a big difference this season. It was one of my weak points on my team. Maddux, Big Unit, Carlton, Wainwright, and Plank will be fun to watch for sure

Warhawk · 03-23-2020, 10:29 AM

I just want this to go better than last year when I made the playoffs 64 times among my teams, including 22 times by my main team in the perfect leagues, and only had 2 gold-level titles by one of my F2P teams to show for it. Just this past week I had the best record in my PL and got beat by the second wild card.

BigRed75 · 03-23-2020, 10:43 AM

Well the Arequipa Alpacas got off to a strong start, pulling two Gold and two Silver from the seven packs it earned with entry pool points. However, due to a glitch in the system (aka me being stupid) none of the new acquisitions were on the roster for the first two games of the season, which the Alpacas lost. Oh well - at least you can't get relegated from Rookie.

This has been fixed and now 84 OVR Sam Gray (1928 St. Louis Browns) will start the THIRD game of the season. 80 OVR Rhys Hoskins is now our starting 1B, replacing some Iron card bum whose name I don't care to remember.

You can follow the exploits of the Lynn Live Oaks in their own thread.

macacks · 03-23-2020, 10:45 AM

San Angelo Warbirds - MAIN P2P (hopefully less of the first P) - Rookie League

Erie "Live' Ghosts - FTP LIVE ONLY - Rookie League

Rockport Rumblefish - $20 and a great set of entry packs - This is a DEFENCE first team - Iron League

neugey · 03-23-2020, 11:03 AM

I'm 3-0 so far in Iron (this won't last). Anyone else have a team setup for tonight's Twitch tournament thing?

macacks · 03-23-2020, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macacks

San Angelo Warbirds - MAIN P2P (hopefully less of the first P) - Rookie League

Erie "Live' Ghosts - FTP LIVE ONLY - Rookie League

Rockport Rumblefish - $20 and a great set of entry packs - This is a DEFENCE first team - Iron League

Erie (live team) makes 1001PP and I grab a pack...and I get a Perfect Eckersly. Oh well I guess he will help fund a kick ass live team.

Magus978 · 03-23-2020, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macacks

Erie (live team) makes 1001PP and I grab a pack...and I get a Perfect Eckersly. Oh well I guess he will help fund a kick ass live team.

Sweet pull...cash in on that baby

macacks · 03-23-2020, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magus978

Sweet pull...cash in on that baby

sold and gone already...guess i didn't ask enough

Westheim · 03-23-2020, 12:54 PM

Ya-hay, Rookie League ...!

-.-

Westheim · 03-23-2020, 03:43 PM

Building the Mets a bit. The goal is to have at least 21 Metsies or honorary Mets (pre-1958 Dodgers and Giants) on the roster, and at most five others.

Well, given that I started out with zero cards fitting the description and I wasn't keen on picking up every old iron card out there, things have gone rather slowly, but I am adding a new card here and there. Just now picked up an (88) 1978 Snapshot John Stearns!

This is all I got as far as Mets and honorary Mets are concerned:

SP (84) 1920 Leon Cadore (Robins)
MR (62) 1947 Harry Taylor (Dodgers)
C (61) Live Tomas Nido
C (88) 1978 John Stearns
3B(DH) (71) 1986 Ray Knight
SS (67) 1989 Kevin Elster
SS (60) 1956 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers)
RF(3B) (83) Live Jeff McNeil

Perceptor · 03-23-2020, 04:29 PM

Ugh The Carbondale Gophers are kicking my butt. Close games coming out with losses.

03-23-2020, 08:07 AM	#2
Marleigh All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: UK Posts: 541	no idea how to change/remove sigs so just going with it Team 1 - Paragon City Heroes Iron League 164, mostly consists of collection players, expecting decent power numbers, not much D outside of Tulo Team 2 - Pachuca Pack Rats Rookie League 99, pack only team F2P team, and as such the quality of players varies massively, 88 Rocky Colavito should blast a few though Team 3 - Lowdown Lugnuts Stone League 147 no real theme other than all historical. 92 Frank Robinson was packed so we are building around him, but we have zero pitching a lot of D in Alley/Sabo/Oester, some speed. Not expecting big things from this one though __________________

03-23-2020, 08:17 AM	#3
Justinw303 Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 74	Saginaw was in my entry pool, absolute beast of a whale. Good luck with them! My pro team is in Iron, favorites to win their division, FTP team in Stone. Excited to see how the more dynamic promotion/relegation system works in action! Already spotted a theme team in my iron league, the Jimmy Jams. Seems to be a collection of people named Jim, or variations of. Love it! Last edited by Justinw303; 03-23-2020 at 08:18 AM.

03-23-2020, 08:38 AM	#4
Perceptor Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2010 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 229	Looking forward to the season __________________

03-23-2020, 09:15 AM	#6
sam10gle Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2020 Posts: 66	Good luck everyone! __________________ F2P PT25 Main: F2P PT25 Reds Theme Team: F2P PT25 Standard Packs Only: F2P PT24:

03-23-2020, 09:19 AM	#7
skep Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 174	Last year I didn't care about my teams that much, I was mostly interested in tournaments. I wanted to change that this year, so I made the FTP challenge which incorporates tournaments, collections and base PT. Now I care! My strategy was to shoot for Rookie League by selling off the cream to pay for Iron, Bronze and Silver tournament teams. I figured that more leagues to get through means more play against weaker competition and more PP! I ended up with... Red Bandits - Rookie .90 Watermelon Bandits - Stone .151 Pink Bandits - Rookie .112 __________________ FTP Warrior Last edited by skep; 03-23-2020 at 09:20 AM.

03-23-2020, 07:46 AM	#1
Magus978 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Behind you. BOO! Posts: 1,851	Season 1 (2020) - Now It Counts... Now that abbreviated entry pool play is out of the way, the first proper season of PT 3.0 can get underway. As always, this is the place where you can discuss your league placement, the teams around you, and your hopes and dreams for the week ahead. The Steelport Saints have been placed in Iron .178. With the other four teams in their AC West division still looking like starter teams, the Saints are heavy favorites to take a division title. However, they are not the favorites to win it all. That title goes to either the Singapore Sluggers or the Saginaw Stripers, both in the AC Central. As those two will be beating each other up all season, the road to the #1 seed in the conference is wide open for the Saints to run down. Over in the other conference, the clear favorite are the H-Town Herd...but this is baseball we're talking about, so all things are possible. For the first time this cycle...good luck, have fun, and don't die! __________________ OOTP Streamer Affiliate who is also your FINAL BOSS. http://twitch.tv/GanbaMagus

03-23-2020, 08:49 AM	#5
Warhawk Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 437	White Tigers are in the NC Central in Iron .175, looks like our stiffest competition will be from Miami in the NC West. Florida in the NC west looks solid too, and there are about 3 teams in the AC similar to them as well. Sun Kings are in Stone .153. Black Knights are in Rookie .67 and still don't have a starting pitcher better than 68 OVR.

03-23-2020, 09:36 AM	#8
HelpDodgers Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 307	Belfast here. The Belfast Dodgers are in iron 160; and my FTP teams Miamisburg Vikings are in iron 154 and The Moo are in iron 161. Time to sit back and enjoy for a while. Belfast started off with an extra inning win. __________________

03-23-2020, 09:47 AM	#9
Warhawk Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 437	Well, 3 wins so far, White Tigers won in 10 innings in their opener, 2-0. Maddux threw 8 scoreless innings on 7 hits and 0 walks with 11 Ks, then Nathan got 3 outs on 3 pitches in the 9th, and Gordon got 3 on 9 pitches in the 10th. We got the winning run in the top of the 10th on a sac fly by Cano, and Berra drew a walk to drive in the second run.

03-23-2020, 09:48 AM	#10
Perceptor Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2010 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 229	My new staff will hopefully make a big difference this season. It was one of my weak points on my team. Maddux, Big Unit, Carlton, Wainwright, and Plank will be fun to watch for sure __________________

03-23-2020, 10:29 AM	#11
Warhawk Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 437	I just want this to go better than last year when I made the playoffs 64 times among my teams, including 22 times by my main team in the perfect leagues, and only had 2 gold-level titles by one of my F2P teams to show for it. Just this past week I had the best record in my PL and got beat by the second wild card.

03-23-2020, 10:43 AM	#12
BigRed75 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,430	Well the Arequipa Alpacas got off to a strong start, pulling two Gold and two Silver from the seven packs it earned with entry pool points. However, due to a glitch in the system (aka me being stupid) none of the new acquisitions were on the roster for the first two games of the season, which the Alpacas lost. Oh well - at least you can't get relegated from Rookie. This has been fixed and now 84 OVR Sam Gray (1928 St. Louis Browns) will start the THIRD game of the season. 80 OVR Rhys Hoskins is now our starting 1B, replacing some Iron card bum whose name I don't care to remember. You can follow the exploits of the Lynn Live Oaks in their own thread. __________________ Mainline team SPTT team Was not a Snag fan...until I saw the fallout once he was gone and realized what a good job he was actually doing. - Ty Cobb

03-23-2020, 10:45 AM	#13
macacks Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Canada Posts: 285	San Angelo Warbirds - MAIN P2P (hopefully less of the first P) - Rookie League Erie "Live' Ghosts - FTP LIVE ONLY - Rookie League Rockport Rumblefish - $20 and a great set of entry packs - This is a DEFENCE first team - Iron League __________________

03-23-2020, 11:03 AM	#14
neugey All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 805 Blog Entries: 39	I'm 3-0 so far in Iron (this won't last). Anyone else have a team setup for tonight's Twitch tournament thing? __________________ Online OOTP League Play: PBA - Cincinnati Reds MLM - Baltimore Orioles

03-23-2020, 12:54 PM	#18
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 11,887	Ya-hay, Rookie League ...! -.- __________________ Portland Raccoons, 83 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

03-23-2020, 03:43 PM	#19
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 11,887	Building the Mets a bit. The goal is to have at least 21 Metsies or honorary Mets (pre-1958 Dodgers and Giants) on the roster, and at most five others. Well, given that I started out with zero cards fitting the description and I wasn't keen on picking up every old iron card out there, things have gone rather slowly, but I am adding a new card here and there. Just now picked up an (88) 1978 Snapshot John Stearns! This is all I got as far as Mets and honorary Mets are concerned: SP (84) 1920 Leon Cadore (Robins) MR (62) 1947 Harry Taylor (Dodgers) C (61) Live Tomas Nido C (88) 1978 John Stearns 3B(DH) (71) 1986 Ray Knight SS (67) 1989 Kevin Elster SS (60) 1956 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) RF(3B) (83) Live Jeff McNeil __________________ Portland Raccoons, 83 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

03-23-2020, 04:29 PM	#20
Perceptor Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2010 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 229	Ugh The Carbondale Gophers are kicking my butt. Close games coming out with losses. __________________