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Originally Posted by dkgo
so should everyone be required to spend PPs as soon as they get them?
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I don't think so. Especially if there is a high end card you really want and you decide to save for it. I saved for just over one season once so that I could but the Rickey 1985 SE card. I don't think trying to make a few giant improvements is any less valid a strategy than making a lot of small ones.
Or what about people who just don't have a chance to log in at all for weeks at a time? Is that sandbagging too?
I posted some screen shots way back in this thread of what I think a "sand bagger" is. A guy who had only one actual pitcher on his roster, a 99 Maddux. Every other player on his pitching staff was a hitter. That's setting up a staff that is intended to lose as much as possible so as not to advance. But doing it in a way that the Maddux card can rack up a ton of points. The year I was in a league with him that card came within 1 win of winning the pitching Triple Crown.
His lineup had an air-tight defense (to help Maddux I am sure) and also a few stud hitters to rack up hitting awards. I guess he decided even Iron level pitchers would be "too good" with that defense (and offense) behind them and he'd get promoted, so he chose to use hitters to pitch to ensure enough losses. I mean even the starter packs would produce a much better staff than he created.
The overall effect was a team that would never get promoted, yet rack up both hitting and pitching points every year. And they were "good" enough to not have a ridiculously bad winning percentage - a lot of that coming from Maddux.
They actually got in to a tie for a WC spot which is how I noticed them, I thought it was odd that "Ford" was the SP and had such a bad era. Then I saw it wasn't Whitey Ford, it was Mike Ford. His team is at post #56 in this thread.