I've Made the Playoffs With 25 0f My Last 28 Teams..

I finally won a title!!!!

Thank you to all here that dealt with my frustration with such good sportsmanship and encouraging words.

Congrats! Always good to break a bad streak.

If play the same set 2000+ times with the same couple dozen people, at the same cap, you would have to be really bad if you didn't win a bunch of championships.

I just mean if you play a set 7 times and win four championships, that's impressive. If you play a set 2000+ times and win a few championships in a row, not quite as impressive.

I know when guys get old they get scared of new things. There's a comfort zone when you do the same thing thousands of times. I get it, I guess. Though if you were really a baseball and a SOM Fan, wouldn't you want to try a different set of cards, at least once in a while?

Radagast - ATG 9 has been out like 8 to 9 months and to date you have yet to complete a single ATG 9 league.

You are preaching about trying new things when you still haven't even tried a product that has been out 8+ months?

Why do you bother sharing you opinions frequently on the ATG boards when you have no base experience in ATG 9?

I finally won a title!!!!

Thank you to all here that dealt with my frustration with such good sportsmanship and encouraging words.

it feels dirty to congratulate Goliath when he stomps David...but congrats!

Any success is success, small sample or large sample, and clearly neither case is pure luck.

But playing against the same vets with a huge player pool is much more challenging than playing against people who don't know the obvious values in this huge player set (relative values are still there in ATG9--but (most) are not as extreme). I try not to play in leagues against mostly newer players--I enjoy learning from and competing with the experiencedrepeat offenders. In a 20XX set, it is a limited pool of players and parks, so there are more limited strategies to employ for winning rosters--the pieces simply aren't there for everyone. Drafting becomes much more important. Unlike the ages old posts from Coffeeholic and others back in the old days meant to help new players, there is no one winning "secret formula" in ATG. Not one that lasts at least.

In ATG, except at the highest caps, the draft has become less important. There are so many ways to craft a team that the focus becomes on how to extract more value from your cards by tailoring to the park and playing environment, league makeup, and situational play. And knowing precisely how to extract slight advantages from the game engine.

For instance, seeing people use hit and run on $5M players with 35 hits each side of the card tells me either they don't know the rules, or are just having fun, experimenting, etc. Those kinds of deltas--the opportunity costs of action/inaction--can make a difference between a winning season or a losing season.

Anyway, I think the community is great so I am no doubt biased toward playing against those same tired old folks!

WE shouldn't hit and run with 5 million players? How about if Randy Johnson is pitching and those massive k's on his card turn into gbc's. Never say never!

maybe...yes there could be a situation where it may make sense.
I should have used a more practical example I saw where a team in a hitter's park had massive HnR going on at all parts of the order.

But sure you are right of course--it removes the pitcher's card which could be an advantage in some specific situations. Hell, your correction of my statement and the nuance presented supports the point about learning from the old guys and getting small advantages, eh? Translation is--you are an old guy!