Team Building and Power Creep
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@Dinger_Dan19_PSN said in Team Building and Power Creep:
The captain system from last year atleast made people try different teams, the combination of theme team/speed or power was really fun last year.
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@YOSHI24_XBL thats because they had a switch hitting captain. Just add the system back but don’t have switch hitter captains is all.
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL yeah, it's interesting that this at least pushes you to play online with other cards. I'd rather it be required to play that way, instead of just incentivized for the xp path, but it's a step in the right direction anyway.
Usually, I call Events "sweatin to the oldies" because it feels like only oldhead 800-plus players play it. But, I've been going on 9 and 10 game win streaks lately - all these mid players just playing it for the moonshot program.
Also, I don't know why they can't make the CPU play more like a human. That would really help offline modes.
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Also I hate playing 9 inning games online - and almost never wanna do it. Three innings is fine. I got kids and lots of distractions - hate feeling glued to one game for an hour (especially with all the lag and jank of online games)
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@Dinger_Dan19_PSN said in Team Building and Power Creep:
@YOSHI24_XBL thats because they had a switch hitting captain. Just add the system back but don’t have switch hitter captains is all.
I agree on the switch-hitter, because it built THE Meta lineup … I do not agree on your last sentence. As long as there are meta lineups in a ranked mode they will be used more often than others, especially experimenting lineups with your binder.
Therefore .. imo:- Ranked should be ranked. Best lineup vs best lineup
- Do experimenting stuff somewhere else. Let guys compete with restrictions … let‘s see who collected best and/or is able to built good lineups with his/her binder… this could be less than 9 inning games too like @rubicante23_PSN asked for
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Yeah all the people talking about lineup variety, when I ran into Buxton nearly exclusively early and then the switch hitters later on. I hate to say it, but any variety was caused by the expiring cards last year when they expired fast.
2023 had the Ripken team, but the issue is the captains were in packs. My favorite captain was the SS captain. That was fun and I played with that team quite a bit.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Team Building and Power Creep:
That was fun and I played with that team quite a bit.
Yes, and this is what not having lineup variety looks like … Everybody plays his god squad, because they can and because fielding a team with higher winning pct gets more rewards
That is why „we“ ask for a new mode with more restrictions.
And Buxton was not it bc most ppl had way better options
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What are your guys thoughts on a salary cap for DD? Lets say you get 100 points to build a team, and for instance the new John Don would cost 25 points, milestone Chipper 15 points, HOF Billy Wagner 9 points, Finest Jimmy Rollins 18 points, and so on…
It’s always insane to me that SDS releases all these cards and 99.99% of them just end up being collection fodder. I would love to see/use more variety on Ranked.
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@Auburn2525_XBL
We have this. It’s called Battle Royale -
I’d boycott the game if they did this. As much as I want to see more lineup diversity in the game, I can’t say I’m not guilty of having a few switchies (but they don’t take up all of my lineup so I guess it’s okay
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I feel the power creep was very good until we got 95s then I fell like we went straight to 99s
Finest wont be superior to what we have now... So like the og post says it feels lateral. I didn't play this weekend because I don't feel that invisible pressure to keep up
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@ref479ode_PSN said in Team Building and Power Creep:
I feel the power creep was very good until we got 95s then I fell like we went straight to 99s
Finest wont be superior to what we have now... So like the og post says it feels lateral. I didn't play this weekend because I don't feel that invisible pressure to keep up
This 100 percent .I predicted all star to be 94-95 with the best being 96, if that happened we'd just be starting to get our first 99s now, and I think we all would have been more engaged throughout and it would have been better for the game.
