PTCS #9: Coming Jan. 13!

[dishnet34]

Hey, everyone! The ninth Perfect Team Championship Series is coming up Saturday, January 13!

There will be 10 tournaments going on, with participation based on finishing in the Top 128 of the different weekly/daily leaderboards between December 4 and December 31 in each of the 10 PTCS categories!

Here are the formats for each of the PTCS #9 tournaments. Please note that all formats will have a modern run environment with DH, and will be played at 1955 Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

• Iron: Golden Years to Live+, Iron Only, 1255 cap
• Bronze: Golden Years to Live+, Bronze Only, 1688 cap
• Silver: Golden Years to Live+, Silver Only, 1920 cap
• Gold: Golden Years to Live+, Gold Only, 2188 cap
• Diamond: Golden Years to Live+, Diamond Only, 2455 cap
• Open: Golden Years to Live+ Open
• Wildcard: Live+, 1642 cap
• Weekly Tournaments: Golden Years to Live+, 1750 cap
• PD Daily + PD Weekly: Perfecto Draft

To clarify the formats, "Golden Years to Live+" essentially means that any card from 1946-2023 will be eligible to be used, and will include Live cards, PT Elite cards, Future Legend cards, the Corey Seager/Adolis Garcia BBRef 3 cards, and the All-Star Series cards (Elias Diaz, Vlad Jr. HRD).

The tournaments began at noon ET on the 9th, with the finals broadcasted on our Twitch channel, twitch.tv/ootpdevelopments.

Don't forget that there's one PTCS period left before the end of the cycle, so if you haven't tried to qualify for a PTCS period, this month is your last chance to do so!

A Reminder About the Perfecto Draft Position Breakdown:

As a reminder, with Perfecto Perfect Drafts, you will pick two cards from an array of six in each of the 13 rounds. These are the position breakdowns of what you'll see:

Pos [SP] = 24
Pos [RP] = 6
Pos [C] = 6
Pos [1B] = 6
Pos [2B] = 6
Pos [3B] = 6
Pos [SS] = 6
Pos [LF] = 6
Pos [CF] = 6
Pos [RF] = 6

Park Factors and Other Information

Here are the park factors for 1955 Ebbets Field:

• AVG vL: 1.019
• AVG vR: .980
• Doubles: 1.088
• Triples: .967
• HR vL: 1.051
• HR vR: 1.125

If you do well in a PTCS tournament, you will receive points toward a separate PTCS leaderboard, with the Top 64 in those leaderboards after the 6th through 10th PTCSes going to the Perfect Team Master Series!

There will be two separate PTCS leaderboards, one for the Daily/Weekly Traditional PTCSes, and one for the Daily/Weekly Perfect Draft PTCSes, that will funnel into a Traditional Tournament PTMS and a Perfect Draft PTMS.

Here's the point breakdown:

• 1st – 300 points
• 2nd – 100
• 3rd-4th – 75
• 5th-8th – 40
• 9th-16th – 20
• 17th-32nd – 5
• 33rd-64th – 2
• 65th-128th – 1

If you finish in the Top 32 of a PTCS, you'll also receive a PTCS-exclusive reward card based on how you did, along with any reward cards below the tier you reached! Here's a look at those prizes, with the first-place prize in the next post!

[dishnet34]

If you win the 9th PTCS, you'll win this 100 OVR Negro League Stars SS Jackie Robinson!

Good luck to everyone participating!

[PunishedF2P]

I knew we were getting that Brent Rooker PT Elite at some point

That Jackie is fire!

[dishnet34]

Based off of feedback from the Perfect Team community, there have been some alterations made to the PTCS 9 rewards. The following is the explanation via Content Director Paul Sporer:
-------------------------------------------
First off, thank y’all so much for the detailed, well thought out feedback on the 6 prizes. There was lots of love for Jackie and Gore, but concerns that some of the lower tier rewards maybe didn’t have much room to carve out their space in the meta. It’s a lot of work to grind through 4 weeks and qualify for the PTCS, let alone then winning any of the prizes. I respect that grind and commitment to the game and as such want y’all to have cards that can immediately enter your lineups/rotations after you win them.

With that, here is a rundown of the changes made to the PTCS 9 rewards:

97 RF Kyle Tucker will be replaced by 98 SS J.P. Crawford
The OF landscape at diamond has had an excellent infusion of talent recently, including PTE Evan Carter, BRefs Andrew McCutchen & Chuck Klein, and Tourney Edition Vlad Sr. to name a few. Tucker isn’t obviously better than any of them and raising his ratings to steamroll one or more of those four feels unnecessary especially when other positions could use some love, including shortstop.

Crawford is a former Top 10 prospect who enjoyed a breakout season at age-28 that included a career-high 19 HRs (previous high was 9) and an AL-best 94 walks. Capable-but-not-elite shortstop defense plus eligibility at 3B in order to improve his value in the current landscape (it hearkens back to his early career when Philly put him at the hot corner a bit) rounds out this Eye/BABIP-focused card.

92 SP Jesus Luzardo has been buffed
Luzardo was close but not quite there for the low diamond landscape. He did lose a little spice on his Stuff, down 4 pts to 136, but it’s a worthy trade with +3 HR, +4 pBABIP, and the coup de grace: a sharp 17-point jump in CON. This wasn’t just a for-funsies boost, he deserved better off rip. I sold his 7% BB rate a bit short, he made legitimate improvements from the 10% mark we saw in 2021-22 from him. The Lizard King is now ready for your low diamond rotation!

86 Don Drysdale had his year shifted to add a new dynamic to his profile
The original Drysdale wasn’t too bad, especially in a HR suppressing era and/or park, but in talking with some folks from the community, we landed on a really fun aspect for him which is to highlight his standout hitting from 1965. His 29 HRs (7 in ’65) were the most for a pitcher over his career (min. 800 PA), 8 clear of Warren Spahn (in 315 more PA, though, so Spahn is pretty close on a rate basis). His bat offers a 96 PWR (incl. 118 vL) and 95 BABIP. This improved bat adds a dynamic angle of playability in no-DH tournaments without costing him a ton in pitching. He does lose a decent bit of STF (-19) but in exchange for +5 HR, +2 pBABIP, and +4 CON.

[PunishedF2P]

Thanks, Sporer. For all the complaints, the dev team doesn't get enough credit for the responsiveness. Appreciate it!

[bailey]

Is it correct that the iron event is NOT limited to iron cards?

[dishnet34]

Originally Posted by bailey

Is it correct that the iron event is NOT limited to iron cards?

It is limited to just Iron cards. Why would there be bronze and up cards in an Iron event?

I mean, yeah, it doesn't mention "Iron Only" in the description, and I can edit that up to say that, but also it...just makes sense it would be an iron-only tournament

[dishnet34]

PTCS tourneys are now live and available, and have automatically been added to the tournaments lists of qualifiers. Congratulations to those who have made the PTCS tourneys, and we'll see y'all on Saturday!

[dishnet34]

Good luck to everyone competing today in the PTCS! Tune in to Twitch later this evening to see how all the finals shake out!

[dishnet34]

Following tonight’s PTCS Finals coverage, stick around after for a recap on the PTCS festivities from our Content Director, Paul Sporer, plus a drop of 14 new cards!

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by dishnet34

Following tonight’s PTCS Finals coverage, stick around after for a recap on the PTCS festivities from our Content Director, Paul Sporer, plus a drop of 14 new cards!

Booooooo, lol

[Fabtron7]

Originally Posted by PunishedF2P

Booooooo, lol

Why Boo?

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by Fabtron7

Why Boo?

Because I went 0 for 5 again today, lmao.

That makes me like 1 for 30 in getting past the 2nd round in PTCS

It's like my luck in Diamond League playoffs this year. I basically hit the 1% odds - but for the chance to lose as much as I do.

And it's not rosters - I had a near perfect roster for every tourney. As I typically do, many of the losses were in game 7.

But I'm just having fun with the 'booooo' comment. It's just a game, no big deal. I enjoy playing it.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by PunishedF2P

And it's not rosters - I had a near perfect roster for every tourney. As I typically do, many of the losses were in game 7.

I lovingly crafted my bronze team together last night and tinkered with it some more this morning (out in round 2). That left me with 1 hour and 10 minutes to cobble together an iron team AND do my perfect draft team.

It was the iron team that made a heroic run, reaching the semi-finals. To construct my iron team, I started with the daily team and randomly took out a bunch of high OVR pitchers and replaced with low OVR cards that had some kind of name recognition for me which was hard since I never play caps. Anyway, that left me with about 35 minutes for the draft (also out in round 2).

[dishnet34]

Congratulations to our PTCS #9 Champions!

Open: Edinburgh Diamond Devils over Puyallup Vikings (4-3)
Iron: Barrow Snowballers (TBD) over Philadelphia Cross-Foxes TBD (4-3)
Bronze: FFS Snails over Orleans Firebirds (4-2)
Silver: Madison Mohicans TBD over Barrow Snowballers (TBD) (4-2)
Gold: Florence Baycats over Eternia Skeletors (4-1)
Diamond: Orange County Viking Kings over Edmonton Whales (4-1)
Wildcard: Pgh Beeches over Summerglen Seraphs (4-3)
Weekly Traditional: Philadelphia Cross-Foxes TBD over Brooklyn Atlantics E6 (4-0)
PD Daily: Piscotty Doesn't Know-E6 over Grover Beach Grouches (4-2)
PD Weekly: Park Slope Bourbon Bros TBD over Grabbing Grabstirs (4-0)

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by bailey

I lovingly crafted my bronze team together last night and tinkered with it some more this morning (out in round 2). That left me with 1 hour and 10 minutes to cobble together an iron team AND do my perfect draft team.

It was the iron team that made a heroic run, reaching the semi-finals. To construct my iron team, I started with the daily team and randomly took out a bunch of high OVR pitchers and replaced with low OVR cards that had some kind of name recognition for me which was hard since I never play caps. Anyway, that left me with about 35 minutes for the draft (also out in round 2).

Congrats on the 3rd/4th place finish! That's solid.

I'm just cursed in PTCS. I got 1st place on the Primetime Cap tourney and 1st Place on the Daily Plus Live tourney last night after PTCS, lmao. Those were basically two of the formats in PTCS.