OOTP Baseball:Perfect Team/Roster Restrictions

Tournaments may specify certain roster restrictions. These impact what cards may be used in the tournament.

Types of Restrictions

Roster Restrictions are split into 3 main types of restrictions: Card Value restrictions, Card Type restrictions, and Card Modifiers, as well as an optional Salary Cap.

Card Value Restrictions

These restrictions will limit what value of card are eligible for the tournament. They may include both a min and max card value, or sometimes only a maximum value.

Card Type Restrictions

The other main group of restrictions limit cards by other attributes of the cards. For example, there may be a restriction by card year or card era, or by certain card types.

The card year is based on the specific year a card is tagged under. Peak cards are always set at a specific year - it will show in the popup menu or in player lists. Card eras are as defined in the PT universe (Deadball, Rebirth, etc...). Note that these may limit you to a specific era (ie. Deadball-only), or may include min and max (ie. 1910-1959, or Rebirth to Defense Era).

Card type restrictions may also apply based on the type of card. Each card is set as a specific type (Hardware Heroes, Snapshot, etc...), or as a special edition card with a specific subtype (Mission Edition, Tournament Edition, PT Elite, Baseball Reference 1). Logging into the tournament, on the manage cards screen cards are filtered whether they are eligible for the tournament or not. Note that some cards may not necessarily fall into the category based on their card art - it is possible that a card may appear like a Future Legend card, but actually be tagged as a Special Edition/Tournament Edition card. Or if a card is won in a tournament, it may actually be the "base" type. Please refer to the Manage Cards screen or the Card Shop to clarify.

Card Modifiers

There is a 3rd restriction type, for card modifiers. These include 2 variations: Combinator Card restrictions, and Chemistry modifiers.

Tournaments may be run with combinator card restrictions. In these cases, only combinator cards up to the specified limit will be used. If a roster is submitted with more combinator cards than the limit, the AI will adjust the roster to fit under the legal limit. Combinator cards of any level may be used - the limit applies to the number of combinator cards only.

Chemistry in tournaments may also be turned off. For select tournaments, this is used to change the roster balance and decision making.

Salary Cap

Tournaments may also run using a salary cap. In these cases, the total value of the 26-man roster submitted must be below the cap. The value for any card is its overall rating. ie. a 56 overall card is worth 56, a 101 is worth 101, etc...

If a tournament has no minimum card restriction listed, then any unused roster spots will count as 40 points. If the tournament has a minimum roster restriction, then that will be the minimum (ie. in a Min-Bronze tournament, if you submit a roster with 24 players, the 2 empty spots will still count 60 points each towards the cap). This is to ensure that teams cannot create extra space by submitting a roster with fewer than 26 players.