You are totally entitled to your opinion. I respect that. But I find that your statements are not true in my case at all.
First off I never said the pitchers were lights out better, but when a pitcher with 4 or 5 pitches, great control and pitch numbers in the 70 to 90 range is getting beat by a pitcher with 3 pitches, a low control rating pitches in the 60 to 70 rabge.... come on.... what algorithm allows that? And once your pitcher is deemed a loser that season, there's nothing you can do to reverse it. So your pitcher goes 5-15 despite changes to his game plan.
As for contact by 100 rating hitters.....when you first move up early on and you have one of the only 100 contact players you expect him to make a difference.... especially when he's not facing good pitchers and hitting from his strong side. Then you check the right/left stats and find out your hitter can't hit from his strong side./ What gives with that?
The fact that there are deemed "chosen" players rather than those with talent is nuts. And it's true because every player in the tournament ends up getting the same player. It's not exciting to see every team with the same players.
Over the last few years, there have been numerous players (Pete Rose, Ted Williams, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and the list goes on, that have been outhit by inferior hitters. Juan Gonzalez (who was notorious from one side of the plate) can't hit from his good side. Sandy Koufax is erratic at best. And how do pitchers continue to give up huge numbers of runs if you have their strategy set to pull them early? Its like the sliders are there for nothing.
Lastly, I have won my share of tournaments and plenty of cards. Why do some players never come out... or come out so rarely that completing missions is a joke. You can complete the missions for Sandy Koufax and pay 3 times the price to buy him.
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Originally Posted by bailey
#1 - I think SP with more pitches will do better, but they does not mean that they are "lights out" better.
#2 - Bogus claim. Your 100+ contact hitters may underperform when most teams in the league are playing with similar cards.
#3 - So what? Some bright guy figured out that cards with high eye and high power would destroy opposing pitching staffs leading to these kinds of scores in game 3 or game 4 of a series. In past versions, earning 300K or 400K in achievement points in Rookie league was possible. My own anecdotal complaint is that when I win a game like this, the next game the only rested pitcher on the opposing staff will pitch a complete game shutout and win 1-0.
#4 - False, you're making things up. However, I do believe in iron you can be successful with many different cards at every position. You don't need Babe Ruth 58, or even Kingman to succeed. The key is volume. Spam tournaments all day long and you win your share if you have a reasonable team.
#5 - I can agree with this, but so what? Don't bother with difficult tournaments or with tournaments that require a 500K roster!! Why should every tournament be accessible to the masses? Players play because they enjoy figuring out the "meta", not because they expect a 100% return on PP invested. Same thing can be said for missions--they are too expensive for value received. So, I don't bother with them, but I do very much enjoy selling irons for 2K and up to the players that enjoy missions.
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