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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
To me, the game ruining element aren’t the whales, it’s the tankers. I see a team with diamond cards losing 100+ games at lower levels because they’re doing straight up stupid things with their roster, it takes me out of the whole thing.
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I saw a youtube video of a guy (trying to be helpful). He has Kiner, bats him leadoff and DH, and loads his lineup with players who have high Eye Ratings.
He gets grips of points from Kiner. Smashing >70 HRs a season... but I noticed he has been in Rookie for 5-6 seasons. Strange.
So is that strategy or exploit? It doesnt seem all that fun to be honest though.
I made 2 other teams than the one I threw a few bucks into. In both cases, I find it very easy to be at or near the top of the Divisions with just a little roster analysis and upgrading. I am not an OOTP rating savant. I learned watching some of Sporer's youtube videos and some of the Twitch streams from OOTP.
Grinding tourneys is helpful as well. One of my teams hit in a 64 team Daily and scored 12,500PP while still in Entry Pool. I cant stress grinding tourneys enough. You get free packs, and with a little pack luck, you will start to fill out your team with Diamonds and Golds. You can also consider selling unused cards, especially ones with collection value.
Entry pool is critical. You need to get in Monday morning. Perhaps invest in a slugger of your packs didnt give you one. Change your ballpark ratings to favor hitting.
Again, for the f2p player, the most value IMO might be in tourney play... and it is THE key tool to upgrade the top roster. I didnt know what I was doing, entering capped tournaments, and allowing the CPU to choose my roster and lineups and was still hitting for some prizes. Especially with Iron and Bronze, and especially with Daily and Weekly larger tournaments, pay attention to the winner and runner up's rosters, rotation, etc. Jot them down, enter them in a spreadsheet, etc. You will see very common threads. You can cheaply install these on your teams and start to land in the money more frequently.
For capped tournaments, gold, silver, etc, there is a bit more variance, but it is more fun making a lineup with your cards and sending them into battle. I joined TWIPT this week for the first time. It was a Gold Tournament. I worked on the lineup all week. Failed in the tournament, but have entered various other quick tournaments and have done admirably.... but again, observing common threads teams have who beat me, and desiring those cards. Its great!
Work the auction house too. On a budget, avoid BUY NOWs unless you are certain its a deal that may not come around anytime soon. Try to snake some auctions that are ending.... especially with the glut of live players. Sometimes you may have to wait it out days, especially when it comes to Silvers for some tough to complete teams like the Yankees, Astros, Cardinals, etc.
As far as whales go. I am now encountering my first one in my Silver League (my team was kind of a whale progressing through Iron and Bronze). My team was a whale, but 'lesser' teams scared the pants out of me in the playoffs. should have been ousted a couple times and got lucky. I am going to spend some time trying to figure out how to beat that team in the WS if it comes down to it. Is there a weakness?
Its tough to imagine anything will be done to 'mute' Whale teams. That flies right in the face of a business model.