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Originally Posted by Goliathus
Yeah, I did thought about the "monday into the perfect pool" trick but I am also impatient on joining the league so I am considering joining the pool on weekend anyway. I don't think the pool could be considered easy competition though - more rapid competition I agree - as my experience in PT19 tells me that it's not. My F2P teams struggled in the pool then went on to a first season playoff in bronze there. So, consider me skeptical.
My biggest concern right now is the friend list. I saw a document in the early pages, is that up to date?
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The benefit of the entry pool is that if you join on Monday you'll play around 300 games there before being placed into Iron the week after. So the competition may not be easier,
per se, but the fact is that there's more games played and therefore more chances to earn PP. Especially if you have an idea for for who you want on your team and can pick a couple of them up on Monday (you'll start with 1k PP and will quickly get another 1.2-1.5k from a couple of initial achievements that they give you 400 PP for - be sure to crank base stealing up when you start as that's one of them).
Being in the Entry Pool does mean you lose the end of season awards and the All-Star selection awards but to me it makes sense to play in the Entry Pool if you have the patience to do it. I put two teams through the entry pool last week and they both completed their first seasons in Iron this week. The PP earnings for them was as follows:
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Team EP Iron
T1 12230 8605
T2 14466 8245
Both teams focused on building their hitting and only upgraded pitching to get rid of all the iron guys they were initially forced to use.
That said, if you want to create the team today and jump in to Iron next week then go for it. Do whatever's more fun for you. But I think it's clear spending a week in the Entry Pool makes more sense from a long-term perspective.