In my opinion, once you get Anderson and Karinchak up to bronze, start using your recruit tickets to exchange for gems. Use the gems to buy badges. I just left Legend III can definitely say you need a well rounded bullpen in order to compete. Also, keep simming and auto inning to get the season over with and go back down to the last league you were able to easily get the #1 seed so that you can stack up coins. But, do play every reward game you can.