Question about Collections.
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@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
If he starts out as a Gold and you lock him in towards the White Sox collection and he eventually gets put in the FA section of the game; is he still locked in?
Yes, he is still locked.
And does that mean that you're now 'obe short' for the White Sox collection?
Normally, you shouldn't lock down a player until you're ready to lock down the entire team. The only reason to partially lock a team's roster is if, in cases like MLB18, where you got partial credit for locking down partial rosters. And even then, I'd go out and find a common before locking down any gold/diamonds I didn't have to.
Also, have they (SDS) ever 'down graded' a player that is injured? IE: Gold to Silver?
Rarely if ever.
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@irishjedi412_xbl said in Question about Collections.:
Team collections don’t change. Whatever team his card is on launch day is where it will be all season. All that will change is his card art if he gets traded.
Hi! Your xbox designation signals you must be new here.
A. Team collections DO change as players are signed/traded/released/promoted. Roster Updates typically happen every Friday (Attribute Updates usually every 2 weeks. I know they did updates every week last year but last year was weird.)
B. MOST of the time a high-profile player will receive new card art when traded, but not always. I'm sure some of the old-timers can chime in with their "favorite" cards that haven't seen any art changes in multiple years despite rampant team-hopping. (Looking at you, Jesus Sucre)
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Eloy Jimenez is a clown and a half. This is the fourth time he's hurt himself because he plays the outfield with the grace and coordination of a newborn giraffe. I'm a huge Sox fan and I love Eloy, but come on.
As to your question -- I see where you're coming from, but the only way to game the system is to have the gift of foresight.
For example, if you somehow knew Trout is going to get traded to the Pirates this year (which seems legit), you could lock in the Pirates at the beginning of the year for basically peanuts, then wait until Trout gets traded and lock in the Trout-less Angels for really cheap. In this scenario, you would NOT need to get Trout at all, because the Pirates would already have been completed (and you wouldn't need to add any new roster additions, unless it's just to satisfy your own OCD), and you would be finishing off the Angels after Trout is off their roster.
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@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
For example, if you somehow knew Trout is going to get traded to the Pirates this year (which seems legit), you could lock in the Pirates at the beginning of the year for basically peanuts, then wait until Trout gets traded and lock in the Trout-less Angels for really cheap.
Did this with Machado in 2018. Saved almost 75K stubs.
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@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
For example, if you somehow knew Trout is going to get traded to the Pirates this year (which seems legit), you could lock in the Pirates at the beginning of the year for basically peanuts, then wait until Trout gets traded and lock in the Trout-less Angels for really cheap.
Did this with Machado in 2018. Saved almost 75K stubs.
I forgot about him going to LA for a couple months! Nice savings.
I wonder if there are any players this year who are going to be diamonds and also likely to be traded before the deadline? Trevor Story seems like the most obvious candidate. Baez is another reasonable guess, but I just don't see the Cubs making any moves. Starling Marte and Sonny Gray are both diamonds in 20 (although I'm not convinced they'll start there in 21), and either of them could potentially get moved I guess. Cleveland's best option for the future is probably to do a fullass rebuild, but they would be fools not to build around Bieber. So I guess maaaaybe Ramirez but he would need to bring in a really good return.
And the White Sox are going to trade for Trout, but everybody already knows that.
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@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
If he starts out as a Gold and you lock him in towards the White Sox collection and he eventually gets put in the FA section of the game; is he still locked in?
Yes, he is still locked.
And does that mean that you're now 'obe short' for the White Sox collection?
Normally, you shouldn't lock down a player until you're ready to lock down the entire team. The only reason to partially lock a team's roster is if, in cases like MLB18, where you got partial credit for locking down partial rosters. And even then, I'd go out and find a common before locking down any gold/diamonds I didn't have to.
Also, have they (SDS) ever 'down graded' a player that is injured? IE: Gold to Silver?
Rarely if ever.
You mentioned not picking in a player until you have the whole team.
So, you don't lock in the 10, 20, and 30 levels to get those stubs and XP as soon as you have that many players?
You wait until you have all of the team's cards and then lock them in; thus getting XP and stubs 4 times at once per team?
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@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
Trout is going to get traded to the Pirates
OMG OMG OMG OMG....
Clemente and Trout on my "All-Time Pirates" build??? I'm in heaven.
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@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
Starling Marte and Sonny Gray are both diamonds in 20 (although I'm not convinced they'll start there in 21)
Where does your buddy Tim start in 2021? Gold?
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@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
If he starts out as a Gold and you lock him in towards the White Sox collection and he eventually gets put in the FA section of the game; is he still locked in?
Yes, he is still locked.
And does that mean that you're now 'obe short' for the White Sox collection?
Normally, you shouldn't lock down a player until you're ready to lock down the entire team. The only reason to partially lock a team's roster is if, in cases like MLB18, where you got partial credit for locking down partial rosters. And even then, I'd go out and find a common before locking down any gold/diamonds I didn't have to.
Also, have they (SDS) ever 'down graded' a player that is injured? IE: Gold to Silver?
Rarely if ever.
You mentioned not picking in a player until you have the whole team.
So, you don't lock in the 10, 20, and 30 levels to get those stubs and XP as soon as you have that many players?
You wait until you have all of the team's cards and then lock them in; thus getting XP and stubs 4 times at once per team?
I guess everyone is different but, since I know from the very beginning that I'm planning to finish the LS, I see no real benefit to waiting to lock in players until you've got the whole team. Even on the first day, you can probably lock in to the 20 or 30 levels for almost every team for really cheap. All that XP will help you progress through the XP path so you can start unlocking better cards earlier in the year.
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@arvcpa_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
Starling Marte and Sonny Gray are both diamonds in 20 (although I'm not convinced they'll start there in 21)
Where does your buddy Tim start in 2021? Gold?
I imagine they will put him back to gold (it seems like SDS just doesn't like TA -- it took until the very last update last year to make him a diamond, even though a lot of guys were getting upgraded for doing way less). He won the battle title in 2019 and came in 2nd (I think?) in 2020, and he's got very good speed and decent pop so I think he's worthy of an 85 or 86. He needs to figure out the defense a little better if he ever wants to be higher than that though, imo.
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@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
You mentioned not picking in a player until you have the whole team.
So, you don't lock in the 10, 20, and 30 levels to get those stubs and XP as soon as you have that many players?
You wait until you have all of the team's cards and then lock them in; thus getting XP and stubs 4 times at once per team?I wait until I have everybody. Because I was emotionally scarred in 2017.
Had 39 Cardinals locked in. Acquired #40 (Seung Hwan Oh) early on a Friday, but couldn't get to my machine to lock it in. At 2pm, the Roster Update dropped and added Magnerious Sierra to the roster, meaning in order to finish the collection, I had to pay 1500 for a common. NOPE!!! Took another 2 weeks before I finally locked in the team and I've been a completionist ever since.
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@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@x814xmafia_psn said in Question about Collections.:
You mentioned not picking in a player until you have the whole team.
So, you don't lock in the 10, 20, and 30 levels to get those stubs and XP as soon as you have that many players?
You wait until you have all of the team's cards and then lock them in; thus getting XP and stubs 4 times at once per team?I wait until I have everybody. Because I was emotionally scarred in 2017.
Had 39 Cardinals locked in. Acquired #40 (Seung Hwan Oh) early on a Friday, but couldn't get to my machine to lock it in. At 2pm, the Roster Update dropped and added Magnerious Sierra to the roster, meaning in order to finish the collection, I had to pay 1500 for a common. NOPE!!! Took another 2 weeks before I finally locked in the team and I've been a completionist ever since.
If that happens again, I will Venmo you $1.50 so you can buy the 1500 stubs that it would take to lock in the team.
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@schnauzerface said in Question about Collections.:
And the White Sox are going to trade for Trout
I have it on good authority he's going to the Pirates.
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@irishjedi412_xbl said in Question about Collections.:
Team collections don’t change. Whatever team his card is on launch day is where it will be all season. All that will change is his card art if he gets traded.
Not correct at all. If a player gets traded to another team, he is now on that team in DD.
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He will still be on the squad. To be taken off the collections list the player needs to be off the 40-man roster.
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@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
Normally, you shouldn't lock down a player until you're ready to lock down the entire team.
Didn't this issue arise with the Rockies last year, when everyone was fighting for a Common A.J. Ramos? Maybe it was because it was late in the cycle. I can't remember.... but I know you do.
And it probably wasn't A.J Ramos... but it WAS a Common that took forever to get.
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AJ Ramos is correct!
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@arvcpa_psn said in Question about Collections.:
@savefarris_psn said in Question about Collections.:
Normally, you shouldn't lock down a player until you're ready to lock down the entire team.
Didn't this issue arise with the Rockies last year, when everyone was fighting for a Common A.J. Ramos? Maybe it was because it was late in the cycle. I can't remember.... but I know you do.
And it probably wasn't A.J Ramos... but it WAS a Common that took forever to get.
Yep. I mad bc I pulled Arenado and went to lock it in but I see another I needed and just waited for week or two for him to go down....even tho I had the Stubbs it’s was out of principle lol
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As for the op I’d just sell eloy for 5-8 k or whatever he will go for day one and save it up. Even if he remains on the Sox roster you can fine back and but him for cheap within a week when people start to realize he is out and not a good diamond gamble card.
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@ikasnu_psn said in Question about Collections.:
He will still be on the squad. To be taken off the collections list the player needs to be off the 40-man roster.
The thing is that a long term injury like this allows the team to put him on the 60 day DL and remove him from the 40 man roster while still keeping him, as long as he is on that 60 day.
