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Originally Posted by Big Poppy
The cheap Gehrigs helped us cheapskates although capped at 40,000 PP return.
I've spent 19.99 this year total (it was a year old balance on Steam) Would still love to spend $100 to $300 at some point but, after all these weeks, can't find logical connect between cards and performance.
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I've been intrigued by the post all-star break performance and how this comes about (where teams above something like a .550'ish winning percentage get hit with a nerf bat). not the type to run a bunch of stats, but one of my theories is that it calculates stats out several times during the season & rebalances, e.g. if you've been running a contact heavy team w/o a lot of power and been doing well, perhaps the league as a whole is running low on homers, so it'll apply some modifier to favor the power stat more and your team will start doing a lot worse (or if there are too many hits, your contact will do less, etc).
the others would be that each team just gets some random # rolled as "luck" at the all star break (like a handicap modifier based on record up to all-star break, could be both positive and negative .. maybe there is something like this at the start of the season too?), or that the sims are so basic that it's damn near entirely random. i think the latter is less likely since there do seem to be some patterns.
i had 600k perfect points and ~1750 clubhouse points saved up (i've essentially only spent them to sell Felipe Lopez's for 20-25k a pop @ 30 CS until a day ago, sprinkle in some Catfish Hunter, perhaps a few Randy Johnson going forward) for the All-Star break this time and went ahead and completed a bunch of missions w/ a half dozen or so direct upgrades to roster, mainly the pitchers from the missions. these would be kevin brown, roy halladay, satchel paige, roger clemens, nolan ryan ... these had higher ratings than the pitchers they replaced across the board (maybe nolan ryan had a few pts less control than someone but dozens of extra points in stuff and movement). i also had a whitey ford that didn't sell for a million points, so i went ahead and put that in the starting rotation. bill hoffer, andy pettite, tom glavine, darryl kile, bob moose, tim wakefield were replaced (the old mission results from live cards mostly, I think). i haven't spent any money on this iteration of perfect team.
Essentially a whole new starting rotation except for dave stieb, who i have at #4, ahead of kevin brown.
robinson cano, mike piazza, and mike pearce for position players, but maybe those are "sideways", i have no clue. they seemed like upgrades to what i was using to me. don't recall offhand what they replaced. i still have 1200 clubhouse points, so i could upgrade some other stuff, but seems wasteful, because of card inflation. robinson cano was one of the ones i had to buy to finish a mission (Subway or something).
august 13th is when all these changes went into place
i was 65-31 pre all-star break, with my old roster. this same roster was at 9-10 after the Bat of Equity took a swing to induce spending via Roster Improvements.
15-10 after my changes, not as good as the winning % pre all-star break. i suspect it's just a handicap being selectively applied, so you just need better cards to overcome it. i'm not sure if it's reset at playoff time or not