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Originally Posted by Tiger Fan
If you still have room for one more I would like to join as well. Just discovered this thread today, ironically the same day I decided to sell of my few remaining 'live' players and focus entirely on a historical team.
My team was created the first day Perfect Team 20 opened and after a couple of average seasons I lucked out by drawing a 98 rated Jackie Robinson card in a pack. I debated a bit but finally decided to sell him and used the 80k in points I got to greatly improve my team.
That first season after the auction house spree I made the playoffs in gold and won my first- and only so far - playoff series. The result was a promotion to diamond where my team was just good enough to not get bumped back down to gold. Somehow I earned a wildcard berth in diamond last season after winning a one game tie-breaker, but I lost the wildcard game in 12 innings (Dave Stieb surrendered a 3-run homer and was subsequently dispatched to the auction house). I vowed never to own a Blue Jay player again, although my bias against the Jays started decades before Stieb’s gopher ball.
This season I realized I will never win in diamond with the team I have, and I would never earn enough points to substantially upgrade as I am strictly free play, so I decided to retool my team by going exclusively with historical players.
In solo play I always gravitate towards historical rather than modern day so I decided to do the same with my Perfect Team and focus on getting players I liked. I already had Mark Fidrych and Hank Greenberg and purchased my all-time favourite Tiger in Alan Trammell (had to settle for the 1987 version as the '84 was too rich for my blood).
I also had Bob Feller, Steve Carlton, Mel Ott and a few others I enjoy following in my solo historical sims so I decided I will build my team around them. I also renamed my team the CliffMarkle Roadrunners. Cliff Markle is in honour of the greatest pitcher in my very first OOTP historical dynasty (back in the days of OOTP2) and I used the Roadrunners because I liked the uniform and logo made TxRanger in his great graphics thread.
I may end up back in gold next season but so far my team is holding it's own so, with a little luck, I could remain a diamond level club. So that's a quick history of my club.
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Your are certainly welcome if you fit the outline. Just post your user name and add the names from our list a couple of posts back, or use the one put up on google. The only thing you have to do is manage your list by leaving off a name or two that are a couple of levels away from your team, because we are already past 31. I would also ask that you post a copy of your team logo so I can copy it for possible "crowning" when you win an Our League season. We award a crown in any level that has at least four teams. Teams that play less than 10 games in a season are not eligible for the crown in that season. Those levels with only two or three teams need to report their records against each at the end of the year, because I keep track of the lifetime wins and losses. Also, any playoff games against Our League teams are added to the lifetime count. I am going to post the first lifetime standings as soon as OOTP puts up 2024's playoff results. We had some teams in bronze that I need to check on. Wow, this was a long-winded welcome.
