PT has Zero Strategy Elements

JMERCH · 01-31-2025, 02:32 PM

Perfect team used to be almost like real world card collecting, except that your cards then compete in a league. I used to have to sit there and wonder if Kid Nichols could actually make my team better. The collecting aspect is gone. The decision aspect is gone. Having a good team in perfect team is simple now: get the latest drops. You can now entirely ignore the cards status (perfect, diamond, etc.) as they no longer represent the power of the card, only its quick sell value. If you came up with a true power scale for the cards, you would have nearly every gold guy (maybe even the silver guys) dropped latest better than the 100 overall guys dropped in the beginning. I also used to have guys on my team for the entire year. A few years ago CY Young was a mainstay in my staff. Now cards become obsolete within a couple weeks. If you know before the season (which you should know before the season what you’re planning) that you’re gonna go to 105 overall, give us 105 guys here and there throughout the year. Every week the cards are getting better, and it doesn’t make it interesting, it makes it so you don’t have to think. There is zero roster building aspect. This is also the case in tournaments, where in order to win you need the Combinator version of the cards. Zero roster building. Zero card collecting. Zero strategy. Winning is simple: spend money to get the newest guys and you will win.

JMERCH · 01-31-2025, 02:47 PM

The rating system needs to be standardized. How is 2010 Josh Hamilton a 98 but 1984 Eddie Murray is a 102. Based on what? Feelings? Because stats don’t support that. Josh that year won MVP with a 170 ops+. Eddie Murray was MVP 4 with a 157 ops+. Or how about Larry Walker’s 100 for his 1998 season? How is that better than Hamilton’s? Just shows the ratings mean nothing and are based off nothing. Just name value

01-31-2025, 02:32 PM	#1
JMERCH Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 14	PT has Zero Strategy Elements Perfect team used to be almost like real world card collecting, except that your cards then compete in a league. I used to have to sit there and wonder if Kid Nichols could actually make my team better. The collecting aspect is gone. The decision aspect is gone. Having a good team in perfect team is simple now: get the latest drops. You can now entirely ignore the cards status (perfect, diamond, etc.) as they no longer represent the power of the card, only its quick sell value. If you came up with a true power scale for the cards, you would have nearly every gold guy (maybe even the silver guys) dropped latest better than the 100 overall guys dropped in the beginning. I also used to have guys on my team for the entire year. A few years ago CY Young was a mainstay in my staff. Now cards become obsolete within a couple weeks. If you know before the season (which you should know before the season what you’re planning) that you’re gonna go to 105 overall, give us 105 guys here and there throughout the year. Every week the cards are getting better, and it doesn’t make it interesting, it makes it so you don’t have to think. There is zero roster building aspect. This is also the case in tournaments, where in order to win you need the Combinator version of the cards. Zero roster building. Zero card collecting. Zero strategy. Winning is simple: spend money to get the newest guys and you will win. Last edited by JMERCH; 01-31-2025 at 02:34 PM.

01-31-2025, 02:47 PM	#2
JMERCH Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 14	The rating system needs to be standardized. How is 2010 Josh Hamilton a 98 but 1984 Eddie Murray is a 102. Based on what? Feelings? Because stats don’t support that. Josh that year won MVP with a 170 ops+. Eddie Murray was MVP 4 with a 157 ops+. Or how about Larry Walker’s 100 for his 1998 season? How is that better than Hamilton’s? Just shows the ratings mean nothing and are based off nothing. Just name value