Originally Posted by bdawg
I've put together a really good PT team - 100s, not the cheesy "Live" guys, but non-live greats with hitting/eye/etc ratings over 110 in most cases. Honus Wagner, Babe SE 1923, Frank Thomas, Kaline, Berra (everyone has this Berra card), Brett, Hornsby, the good Mantle, TOTY Bieber, Walter Johnson, HL JV, HL Spahn, Finley, etc., and a good set of bullpen and backups. I'm in a Gold league now and the competition is stiff. I'll face off with teams who look like they have worse cards than I do by the ratings, and yet they destroy me. I play the Left/Right splits and try to match up best I can. But my team just feels like it underperforms repeatedly.
It's FAR worse in the tournaments. I have played tourneys for about 3 weeks straight now, about 3 per day on average, and literally I've been swept (or pretty close to swept) almost every single first round except one, where I made it to the semi-finals then got swept by a team that looked far worse than mine. I don't get it.
I get that this is a game and it's a series of random numbers that get generated to simulate each game, theoretically based on ratings, but I just don't understand how I can be this unlucky. Like, this feels like playing roulette and betting red or black 100x in a row and hitting maybe 5x kind of unlucky. My only thought is that people are playing some strategies that are giving them huge advantages. Like someone's developed a good set of sliders for the strategies that gives them a 20% boost, and everyone else knows about it but me.
What gives? Has someone written up a good set of strategy sliders in these forums? Sorry I tried searching, but the search feature on these forums is like web 1.0 horrific. I'm literally about to just bail on this mode and give up at this point.
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