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[MaroonAlberich]

Originally Posted by bailey

I feel the pain of trying to improve a team when improvements are north of 500K even if you can find one to buy with points in hand.

I'm honestly a little surprised that the AH isn't salted with players on occasion. Start them at the min with no BIN and at least keep the cards circulating. Absolutely no incentive for me (and I'm guessing a few others as well) to buy points when the cards I want to buy are never in stock. I mean, if the AH were a grocery store, I'd have given up on it months back,

[Marleigh]

Originally Posted by MaroonAlberich

I'm honestly a little surprised that the AH isn't salted with players on occasion. Start them at the min with no BIN and at least keep the cards circulating. Absolutely no incentive for me (and I'm guessing a few others as well) to buy points when the cards I want to buy are never in stock. I mean, if the AH were a grocery store, I'd have given up on it months back,

I logged in for the first time in a month, load of points, look around to complete some missions and the AH is bone dry.

Guess i'm done with PT for good

[Will_L]

Randy Johnson (Elitist Scum) goes 10 innings and gives up no hits, walks two, strikes out ten.
We lose the game in the 13th.
Tried to upload the box score and my internet crashed at that exact moment...

[Tinkerman]

The Tinners have been a bit of an afterthought, but their recent record has been quite amusing. I didn't touch the team during the last 4 seasons. They had their best 2 seasons followed by their worst. And you can see that there isn't too much of a gulf between Gold and Diamond .


Plank has been fairly bad in Diamond, but kind of found his mojo in Gold .

[abangs]

For the past few months, the Cluckers, Irregulars, and Perros were Gold teams. I think things may have changed.

The Cluckers continue to be a pretty good Gold team that occasionally dips into Silver and dominates or rises into Diamond and gets demolished. Last season ended with a first place finish but a quick exit in the Divisional round of the playoffs. Recent additions of FOTF Roberto Alomar, FOTF Bob Feller, and SE Chris Sale are keeping the team in first place in Gold this season. The team is working on completing the Yankees FOTF to add DiMaggio to a corner spot and shift 92 Ichiro to the bench, but it's going to take at least a couple of weeks of saving up.

The Irregulars continue to struggle with pack pulls, especially on the pitching front, where the only historical perfect pitcher the team has pulled was Dennis Eckersley several months ago. FOTF mission completion has been equally slow, with the last FOTF reward card (David Ortiz, a marginal improvement) added a couple of weeks ago. The team did add some bullpen depth by completing the Future Legends pitchers mission for SE Dwight Gooden, who has been excellent so far this season. The team earned a wildcard slot last season but has struggled to get to .500 this season, a combination of the weak staff and several position players having subpar seasons. The current FOTF project is to add Al Kaline to an already solid Gold league outfield (Dawson/Charleston/Clemente), but completion is still likely a week away.

Los Perros have had an eventful couple of weeks/seasons, starting with the long gestating completion of the FOTF Mets mission, adding Tom Seaver to the rotation. A couple of days later, they added SE Tex Hughson after reaching the semi-finals in the Gold PTCS. Towards the end of last season, they added SE Chris Sale, then completed the Giants FOTF mission on the eve of the playoffs. With a much stronger rotation (and through displacement, bullpen) and FOTF Willie Mays anchoring the lineup, los Perros won their first Gold league championship. So far, the team has held its own in the Diamond league, sporting a 36-32 record after 68 games. Could they avoid Diamond relegation for the first time? In the meantime, the team is working on the Braves FOTF to add Hank Aaron (who will likely DH), which will take at least a week or two to complete. Then they'll complete the FOTF Marlins mission to add Jose Fernandez to the pen--and NL East FOTF Warren Spahn to the rotation!

[bailey]

Who will blink first?

[tbonetim]

The volatile nature of the Diamond league is something to behold.

Last weeks record for the Justice: 87-75

This weeks record for the Justice: 68-94 with a touch of relegation

Same team make up as last week but in a division with two 100+ win teams and a 3rd place team with 89 wins is a recipe for destruction. I also faced the toughest September schedule ever that sealed my relegation fate. None of the teams I faced that month had a losing record and 16 of those games were against teams that finished with over a hundred wins. Thus a 8-17 record for the month.This will be just the fourth time in 34 seasons at Diamond that I have been relegated, but goes to show that if you end up in a really strong division of PEL caliber teams its not going to go well unless you field a very similar team yourself. I only went three seasons before being relegated from Diamond this last time when I normally went more than a decade between relegation seasons the couple times prior.

[daves]

Originally Posted by tbonetim

The volatile nature of the Diamond league is something to behold.

Last weeks record for the Justice: 87-75

This weeks record for the Justice: 68-94 with a touch of relegation

Same team make up as last week but in a division with two 100+ win teams and a 3rd place team with 89 wins is a recipe for destruction. I also faced the toughest September schedule ever that sealed my relegation fate. None of the teams I faced that month had a losing record and 16 of those games were against teams that finished with over a hundred wins. Thus a 8-17 record for the month.This will be just the fourth time in 34 seasons at Diamond that I have been relegated, but goes to show that if you end up in a really strong division of PEL caliber teams its not going to go well unless you field a very similar team yourself. I only went three seasons before being relegated from Diamond this last time when I normally went more than a decade between relegation seasons the couple times prior.

The competition is getting crazy in Diamond. I wonder how much harder it is in Gold?

[Tinkerman]

Originally Posted by daves

The competition is getting crazy in Diamond. I wonder how much harder it is in Gold?

There's still a big jump, but I reckon that Gold is on the cusp of getting much harder. It's like AA/AAA now, but there's gonna be more of an overflow of better teams from Diamond soon, so it'll probably be more like a AAAA.

[Tinkerman]

It's been grim for my packs team lately, but today's been nice. Pulled a FotF Ripken for a big upgrade at short, and a 93 Shantz to complete the lefty mission for Prince Hal. That's the first meaningful mission that my packs team have completed since the live collection (many months ago)!!!

The Grackles just got the playoff rub and won 26 team D.369! Most of the teams that weren't relegated looked pretty much the same, so I feel pretty lucky .

[bailey]

The Magpies had a great season that saw them score a record number of runs: 1133. They also ended the championship draught at 10 weeks and kept the string of winning 1 every decade alive. 2059 being the last chance for the 50's! They did by the narrowest of margins--every series went the distance and they had to come from behind each time. 6-0 in elimination games is clutch. Rogers Hornsby was series MVP in the LCS and finals with Willie Mays getting the award in the DS, while Jackie Robinson was overall conference MVP.

[daves]

Originally Posted by bailey

The Magpies had a great season that saw them score a record number of runs: 1133. They also ended the championship draught at 10 weeks and kept the string of winning 1 every decade alive. 2059 being the last chance for the 50's! They did by the narrowest of margins--every series went the distance and they had to come from behind each time. 6-0 in elimination games is clutch. Rogers Hornsby was series MVP in the LCS and finals with Willie Mays getting the award in the DS, while Jackie Robinson was overall conference MVP.

Good Luck in Perfect.

[daves]

Seawolves won the weakest division and made it to the World Series against some incredible competition. But lost 2 of 3 at home in the World Series and lost the series in 6 games.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by daves

Good Luck in Perfect.

I'll need it. I estimate about 1-2 million points short of where I want to be and time is running out....

[tbonetim]

Originally Posted by daves

The competition is getting crazy in Diamond. I wonder how much harder it is in Gold?

As Tinkerman mentioned, the drop off is still pretty steep. I looked at my division competition this morning and a couple of those teams in it have played in Diamond, but they were just quick trips of 1 season on occasion after enduring a beatdown there. Last time I was in Gold I won 122 games and that was without a few additional upgrades (such as FOTF Hornsby). I think it still will be at least another month or so before Gold finds itself playing at a higher level. I wouldn't have been relegated last week if I hadn't been in such a brutal division, but then again, I think the odds of me being in a division like that are occurring more frequently as teams get stronger.

I think we can break down the Perfect Team seasons in Diamond into two categories...

Pre-2050 Year Seasons

Post-2050 Year Seasons

I may be off plus or minus a couple seasons, but that is generally the dividing line when the Ultra-Buff Toppers of the FOTF collection were finding there way onto more teams and could only be had by completing all or a large swaths of the FOTF mission sets only (aside from purchasing from other on the AH).

Its pretty easy for me to tell when that came about just by looking at my Diamond league records around that time.

2049: 91-71
2050: 102-60 (made playoffs)
2051: 93-69

In the 8 seasons after that I was relegated twice, never broke 90 wins, and averaged 83 wins in the others.

[tbonetim]

Originally Posted by bailey

The Magpies had a great season that saw them score a record number of runs: 1133. They also ended the championship draught at 10 weeks and kept the string of winning 1 every decade alive. 2059 being the last chance for the 50's! They did by the narrowest of margins--every series went the distance and they had to come from behind each time. 6-0 in elimination games is clutch. Rogers Hornsby was series MVP in the LCS and finals with Willie Mays getting the award in the DS, while Jackie Robinson was overall conference MVP.

FOTF Hornsby was the one card on offense I had to get on the AH. Cost me the majority of my points when I did, but I needed that consistency at the 3 hole in the lineup.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by tbonetim

FOTF Hornsby was the one card on offense I had to get on the AH. Cost me the majority of my points when I did, but I needed that consistency at the 3 hole in the lineup.

Definitely, a "must have". 39 out of 40 teams in Perfect use him. Unfortunately, mine is performing in the middle of the bottom half, so at least, not the worst.

Currently, 5 games under .500 and dead last in my division, but only 2.5 games behind a wild card slot.

[bailey]

Breaking News: Face Maddux is in the house! The stars aligned -- a "reasonable price" and PP on hand. I know there is not much difference between the Face and Legend Maddux, but I knew I wouldn't be happy with the lesser card because my team economy is really humming right now, despite the tournament slump last week. Every team in Perfect uses Maddux--12 have FACE, 8 have the 99, and the rest use the Legend.

[Will_L]

My Elitist Scum got off to the worst start I've ever had in PT (19/20/21), 12-43 when I checked them this morning. They did better than I expected last week in gold though they were still under .500 but this was a shock.

[bailey]

Things are looking bleak after losing 6 1-run games in a row leading to this: