Perfect Team

Perfect Team adds an additional play mode to OOTP: a collectible card game that allows you to build teams and play against thousands of other OOTP owners in online leagues, using the OOTP simulation engine.

If you're new to Perfect Team, you may want to have a look at the Tips section below before you get started - there's no way of reloading your game after a mistake here, so you'll want to avoid those mistakes in the first place!

Most of the Perfect Team screens have an equivalent in OOTP and work in the same manner. However, Perfect Team operates a little differently than normal OOTP play in some respects:

no scouting
no injuries
no coaching staff
no finances/contracts
no trades
no player morale system
player development is disabled (although players can learn new positions)
there is a limit of 26 players on the active roster, with no September roster expansion
the reserve roster is limited to 175 players; additional players can be held in "inactive" status
you must keep at least 20 players, 4 starters, 4 relievers, and at least 7 players in each lineup or the AI may set up your roster
players demoted to the reserve roster have to stay there for a minimum of 14 days (league time)
only one card per player is allowed on the active roster, including different cards for the same player
games cannot be played live, although it is possible to watch the replays

League Play

During the league's regular season (Monday-Saturday), 31 league days are simulated every real day, one simulation every 30 minutes, starting at 10 AM ET and ending at 1 AM ET. On Sundays the postseason will be simulated, starting at 12 noon ET and simulating every 15 minutes. In addition to the regular leagues, Entry Pool leagues for new players are also running, simulating one game every 30 minutes and running non-stop until the next week begins and the teams are assigned to a regular league.

Leagues are sorted into different tiers: from the top down, they are Perfect, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron, Stone, and Rookie. Additionally, the Entry Pool league holds newly-created teams before their first assignment to a regular league (usually Rookie, except in the first week following the game's release, where some teams may begin in higher leagues based on their Entry Pool record.) Every week, the teams with the best finishes in one level will be promoted to the next-highest one, while the teams with the worst records will be demoted down to make room for them. Teams will never be demoted out of a Rookie level league.

Perfect Points

Perfect Points and cards can be acquired in a variety of ways:

you can win additional points when your team receives achievements; the best and rarest achievements will award significantly more, up to several thousand for extremely rare events like perfect games
you can win new player card packs by unlocking achievements in Challenge Mode games in regular OOTP; these are limited to one pack every few days, and are more likely to occur when your receive a higher-level achievement
player cards can be bought and sold for Perfect Points via the in-game card shop. The card shop is global - everyone in the game can see every player listed, not just the ones in their league
Perfect Points can be purchased via the "Buy Perfect Points" option on the Market menu
standard card packs of 6 cards each can be purchased; these packs are guaranteed to have at least one bronze-level card per pack. Packs the contain higher-level cards like Gold and Diamond, and special packs like ones with Historical cards only, will also be available, although some of these will only be offered at specific times.
cards can be sold immediately for a fixed amount, based on value category; if you do this, the card will simply disappear in our system and you get the PP added to your balance immediately.
Points can be awarded for winning tournaments and completing collections.
Points may be bought from the points shop

"Live" cards are tied to the current Major League season; if a player's real-life performance improves or declines during the year from the predicted initial card values, his ratings will change.

Collection Missions

Collection Missions expand the collecting aspect of Perfect Team in a new direction, allowing rewards to be won by collecting cards. There are two types of missions: Missions for cards, and missions for completing other missions.

Missions for cards simply require collecting specific cards. When clicking on a mission title, the expanded mission info will pop down and show you the cards that are required to complete the mission plus the reward(s). Some missions require you to collect all cards of that mission, other missions a certain number - for example, any 7 out of 12 total cards.

Once a mission is complete, you can submit the mission to our servers, you will then receive the mission reward(s) and the cards of the mission (or the selected ones for the missions which only require any X out of Y cards) get locked. Locked cards can no longer be sold or auctioned, but they still can be played as usual.

Mission-completion missions can be finished by completing a certain set of missions, getting you an additional reward: Let's say there are Mission 1, 2 and 3 and a Mission A which is a mission that includes these three missions. After completing each mission you will get their reward, and after you have completed all three, you can submit mission A and collect another reward, usually for a much better reward than those given by the individual missions. Some of the very best cards in the game can only be acquired through completing missions (or buying those cards on the auction house, if someone who's completed the mission for them wants to sell them.)

Tournaments

Perfect Team Tournaments are standalone competitions that allow you to pit your Perfect Team against others, separately from the regular Perfect Team league, but using your collections of cards.

You earn all sorts of rewards when you are successful in a Tournament, from Perfect Points to Card Packs to Special Edition cards - and more. You don't even have to win a Tournament to reap the rewards, as many Tournaments offer rewards for participants beyond first place.

There are thousands of combinations of Tournaments that can exist. Here are the fundamental options that are combined to create the individual competitions:

Types: Quick (starts as soon as the max number of teams has signed up), Daily, Weekly, or pop-up
Modes: Tournament Modes
Roster Restrictions: Roster Restrictions
Tournaments with no restrictions whatsoever are called 'Open Tournaments'.

Rewards for winning or placing highly in tournaments include Perfect Points, specific Cards, and Packs of various types.

Perfect Drafts

Perfect Drafts are another way to play and compete. Perfect drafts are run very similarly to Tournaments, in that they are scheduled, there are quick, daily, weekly, and popup variations, and they will run with select tournament modes. However the difference is that you do not use your card collection for them. Each draft will have a number of rounds, where you will select one or more players per round to complete your team.

Each Perfect Draft will have a specific set of criteria for each round. The tournament description may give some indication as to what is available in each round. The traditional Perfect Draft format runs for 13 rounds and has a limit of 20 minutes to make your selections, but some variations may change those values. Please ensure you can complete your draft within the time limit, otherwise you will play with an incomplete roster.

New Content

New content will be delivered each and every week all Perfect Team season long in the form of new cards being added to the game, new missions and tournament types appearing, and other surprises!