When do you normally have the LS collection completed by?
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I’m like a 96.3% offline grinder. I put in some hours and normally finish around the All-Star break, but it feels a lot like work.
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Anywhere between June-July.
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@LHUBison58_XBL I feel you on this. I got him. It took me 13 times to get him. One time I had a 98% chance to get him and didn't.
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Usually I have had the card I was after in 1-2 tries. They made getting him extreme.
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Been playing since ‘21, usually finish around June-ish. Last year, it was later. I want to say August. Cards seemed expensive.
I usually keep all non-duplicates. And I usually don’t go after gate keepers. I save them for last and hope I pull one.
I typically go after the “low hanging fruit” (cheap card) as adding one or two 5 stub cards to a collection can earn a card or a couple hundred stubs. Early on in the game, that makes a difference.
Might chance my philosophy this year to see if I can finish sooner.
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@capardo_XBL Prices seemed higher because prices were deflated in 23/24 because of sets and seasons. The power creep makes the collection more important.
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My advice, sell everything short of a gatekeeper early. Earn packs and rewards, build up a stack of stubs and buy the gatekeepers you can afford (with a priority in Ohtani, if last year’s trend holds true) prior to the fist roster update. His price inflated significantly after each of the early roster updates. You will pull diamonds at around a 2% rate and the odds of getting a gatekeeper are even lower than that. Collect the low hanging fruit organically through packs you earn, save up, flip, etc for the big guys before they sky rocket in price. All cards will be inflated the first week or so, don’t be buying 85s at this time. Wait and save. Take advantage of the inflation as a seller.
Also, if you are flipping, get the companion app and instead of scrolling on socials do a minute or two of flipping all day whenever you are bored and pulling your phone out. You’d be real surprised at what you can make if you check your app once or twice an hour.
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@GoozeFn_PSN they also removed the stub cap on cards in late spring and that caused gatekeepers to explode in price.
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@LHUBison58_XBL Sure, but I don’t remember the high live series diamonds ever having a cap before last year.
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I can’t honestly recall. And there isn’t a lot of information I can find on my transactions without redownloading 24. This past year Ohtani was capped early and then they removed it and he shot up to 800k+. Luckily I had pulled judge early and bought ohtani. This year I plan on flipping my way to two Ohtanis and holding one for the RU1 inflation. But there are too many unknowns at this point to be certain.
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@lhubison58_xbl I’m gonna try this method for 26 and see how I do. It will take patience on my part as I enjoy “finishing” LS teams and completing Collections.
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@capardo_XBL Going after Ohtani first is smart, but the stubs you’d spend on another, the wait for his price to go up and the tax is not a great wait to make stubs. You could use hundreds of thousands of stubs to invest and make a lot more.
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Before or by the break usually. Last year i didnt finish til late because i stopped for a few months when Judge and Ohtani were selling for ridiculous amount of stubs.
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@goozefn_psn thanks for the advice. I know “investing” in certain players is a great way to make lots of stubs. I did a bit of it last year. (Someone would post some names on occasion to look at).
I’m not entirely comfortable going this route, though. As strange as it sounds, I like playing the Show, but I’m not a follower of baseball much, if at all. 🫣
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(Sorry, duplicate post)
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@GoozeFn_PSN I’m one of the investors. I made so much last year I had to start buying judges and Ohtanis to stash stubs away. But I wasn’t pushing that method on anyone else. But I still will have a chunk of my stubs dedicated to flipping for Ohtani.
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@capardo_XBL follow truebusinessreview on YouTube. That’s the group that got me hardcore into investing. A collective group is watching real baseball stats, performances, and make buy/sell/hold suggestions. It’s almost a license to print stubs. Plenty of great advice for free, although he does have paid membership levels too.
I drop some cash day one to get a head start on stubs then never spend another penny.
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@capardo_XBL I don’t necessarily mean investing in roster updates. I also mean flipping and the other methods of making stubs. You need stubs to make stubs and sitting on hundreds of thousands seems like a bad plan to me.
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@LHUBison58_XBL That’s a little different to me. If you’re doing it to stay under the 5 mil cap, you’re doing just fine.
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I had over 2 million in those two cards after hitting my cap. I finally slowed down in July because at what point are you spending those stubs? I still have 3 million and almost every card in the game.
