It's over. After weeks of flipping...

I finally finished the Live Series collection! This is only the second time I have been able to accomplish this -- the only other being in The Show 17 and I didn't finish that one until late-August/September.

I got super lucky and pulled Mike Trout this year in the middle of April after beating the 2nd Inning Showdown (what a thrill that was for me!) and since then, I've been dead set on getting it done. I thought it would take me until mid-June at first but I put my flipping skills into overdrive the past few weeks, with the last week being especially crazy.

I want to say it was sometime last week (I want to say Wednesday or Thursday) that I bought Gerrit Cole (162K), then I flipped my way to 200K and bought Christian Yelich (39K) and Cody Bellinger (163K), last night I had enough to get Jacob deGrom (108K) so I pulled the trigger.

Today, I spent the entire day getting to 140K Stubs and finally had enough to get Nolan Arenado. I am so proud but I will say I may need to buy a new PS4 controller in the near future as my 'X' button has to be obliterated. My thumb hurts and I think I see the menus when I close my eyes (lmao!)

Anyway, this is going to get pushed down quickly so I'm not sure why I typed so much but I just have to share my experience with my MLB The Show-brethren.

What is the best method for flipping this hard

Congratulations bro. Hard work pays off

Congrats

Nice job! Were you flipping bronzes?

Honestly, now that I'm done... I'll share my method but be warned, it's tedious, boring and you have to be patient sometimes.

Bronze cards are your moneymakers. Sure, you can buy Commons for the 5 or 6 quick-sell price and take advantage when they're selling for around 40-50 Stubs. I did that with a few cards and I mostly stuck to ones that I knew usually sold for more. The biggest thing though is, take advantage of having unlimited buy orders, that alone made flipping so much better for me.

The best advice I ever heard when it came to flipping sounds so simple but it helped me change my mindset, "all profit is good profit." Now, that doesn't mean buy a card for 45 Stubs and sell him at 50 Stubs, but making 40-50 Stubs on each card you flip adds up so quickly. The last two days, I focused on low-bronzes that I could put buy orders in around 25-30 Stubs and then I could sell them for 80-110 Stubs a piece. The more you flip, the more you realize there are certain teams that move much quicker, sell for more, and just have excellent profit margins, but on the flipside, there's teams you want to avoid like the plague! For example, the Angels are a waste of time and personally, I more often than not have been disappointed by Cubs and Cardinals players for whatever reason. Oh, and the Yankees! There isn't much Stubs to be made off the Yankees.

Aside from that, it's all about finding your rhythm. If you place a buy order and the profit margins are nice but by the time you actually get the card, the margins have dropped -- hold onto them! Chances are the price will be back to a healthy profit within the next 6-12 hours.

I hope this helps someone. Good luck guys!

@vagimon said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Nice job! Were you flipping bronzes?

Yes, strictly bronzes and commons. Much different than my flipping days back in The Show 17 when I stuck to diamonds.

Congrats, man. Mantle is very good (hot take, I know)

Congratulations! Flipping works ive only done in 1 year which was 2016 and i got the complete collection but i decided for me personally its too time consuming and repetitive to check cancel check 1 second later cancel etc etc etc for me to care anymore. Its not hard work its just dedication. Now you can do anything brother so enjoy!

@BodamEscapePlan said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Honestly, now that I'm done... I'll share my method but be warned, it's tedious, boring and you have to be patient sometimes.

Bronze cards are your moneymakers. Sure, you can buy Commons for the 5 or 6 quick-sell price and take advantage when they're selling for around 40-50 Stubs. I did that with a few cards and I mostly stuck to ones that I knew usually sold for more. The biggest thing though is, take advantage of having unlimited buy orders, that alone made flipping so much better for me.

The best advice I ever heard when it came to flipping sounds so simple but it helped me change my mindset, "all profit is good profit." Now, that doesn't mean buy a card for 45 Stubs and sell him at 50 Stubs, but making 40-50 Stubs on each card you flip adds up so quickly. The last two days, I focused on low-bronzes that I could put buy orders in around 25-30 Stubs and then I could sell them for 80-110 Stubs a piece. The more you flip, the more you realize there are certain teams that move much quicker, sell for more, and just have excellent profit margins, but on the flipside, there's teams you want to avoid like the plague! For example, the Angels are a waste of time and personally, I more often than not have been disappointed by Cubs and Cardinals players for whatever reason. Oh, and the Yankees! There isn't much Stubs to be made off the Yankees.

Aside from that, it's all about finding your rhythm. If you place a buy order and the profit margins are nice but by the time you actually get the card, the margins have dropped -- hold onto them! Chances are the price will be back to a healthy profit within the next 6-12 hours.

I hope this helps someone. Good luck guys!

Thank you. This is very helpful. Maybe I’ll give it a go.

@ryrycon said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

What is the best method for flipping this hard

Never leaving the auction house for days and weeks a maybe the whole month.... atleast that's how I did it lol

@BodamEscapePlan said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Honestly, now that I'm done... I'll share my method but be warned, it's tedious, boring and you have to be patient sometimes.

Bronze cards are your moneymakers. Sure, you can buy Commons for the 5 or 6 quick-sell price and take advantage when they're selling for around 40-50 Stubs. I did that with a few cards and I mostly stuck to ones that I knew usually sold for more. The biggest thing though is, take advantage of having unlimited buy orders, that alone made flipping so much better for me.

The best advice I ever heard when it came to flipping sounds so simple but it helped me change my mindset, "all profit is good profit." Now, that doesn't mean buy a card for 45 Stubs and sell him at 50 Stubs, but making 40-50 Stubs on each card you flip adds up so quickly. The last two days, I focused on low-bronzes that I could put buy orders in around 25-30 Stubs and then I could sell them for 80-110 Stubs a piece. The more you flip, the more you realize there are certain teams that move much quicker, sell for more, and just have excellent profit margins, but on the flipside, there's teams you want to avoid like the plague! For example, the Angels are a waste of time and personally, I more often than not have been disappointed by Cubs and Cardinals players for whatever reason. Oh, and the Yankees! There isn't much Stubs to be made off the Yankees.

Aside from that, it's all about finding your rhythm. If you place a buy order and the profit margins are nice but by the time you actually get the card, the margins have dropped -- hold onto them! Chances are the price will be back to a healthy profit within the next 6-12 hours.

I hope this helps someone. Good luck guys!

Congrats! I accomplished LS collections as well. It’s a great feeling and makes your ranked team so much better. Now it’s the grind to prestige all those great cards.

One thing I would add to your stub making method is playing the market based off the schedule. The majority of stubs I’ve made on the market are from investing. What I mean is pay attention to the SDS schedule and their plan for player programs, monthly awards, and events. Buy cards based off of that. For example, events prices increase because of the increase in buy now orders. Program prices increase because the majority of players opt to do exchanges rather than missions or moments.

It’s rewarding completing the LS collection after being smart and frugal with your stubs!

@BodamEscapePlan said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

I finally finished the Live Series collection! This is only the second time I have been able to accomplish this -- the only other being in The Show 17 and I didn't finish that one until late-August/September.

I got super lucky and pulled Mike Trout this year in the middle of April after beating the 2nd Inning Showdown (what a thrill that was for me!) and since then, I've been dead set on getting it done. I thought it would take me until mid-June at first but I put my flipping skills into overdrive the past few weeks, with the last week being especially crazy.

I want to say it was sometime last week (I want to say Wednesday or Thursday) that I bought Gerrit Cole (162K), then I flipped my way to 200K and bought Christian Yelich (39K) and Cody Bellinger (163K), last night I had enough to get Jacob deGrom (108K) so I pulled the trigger.

Today, I spent the entire day getting to 140K Stubs and finally had enough to get Nolan Arenado. I am so proud but I will say I may need to buy a new PS4 controller in the near future as my 'X' button has to be obliterated. My thumb hurts and I think I see the menus when I close my eyes (lmao!)

Anyway, this is going to get pushed down quickly so I'm not sure why I typed so much but I just have to share my experience with my MLB The Show-brethren.

What is your advice on flipping?

Not to be a [censored], but did you read the whole thread?

@The_Icon148 said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Congratulations! Flipping works ive only done in 1 year which was 2016 and i got the complete collection but i decided for me personally its too time consuming and repetitive to check cancel check 1 second later cancel etc etc etc for me to care anymore. Its not hard work its just dedication. Now you can do anything brother so enjoy!

I know, man!! It feels like I have so much freedom. I can buy whatever card strikes me now!

That Matt Kemp and Ben Zobrist are looking very interesting, too.

@dfent12 said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

@BodamEscapePlan said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Honestly, now that I'm done... I'll share my method but be warned, it's tedious, boring and you have to be patient sometimes.

Bronze cards are your moneymakers. Sure, you can buy Commons for the 5 or 6 quick-sell price and take advantage when they're selling for around 40-50 Stubs. I did that with a few cards and I mostly stuck to ones that I knew usually sold for more. The biggest thing though is, take advantage of having unlimited buy orders, that alone made flipping so much better for me.

The best advice I ever heard when it came to flipping sounds so simple but it helped me change my mindset, "all profit is good profit." Now, that doesn't mean buy a card for 45 Stubs and sell him at 50 Stubs, but making 40-50 Stubs on each card you flip adds up so quickly. The last two days, I focused on low-bronzes that I could put buy orders in around 25-30 Stubs and then I could sell them for 80-110 Stubs a piece. The more you flip, the more you realize there are certain teams that move much quicker, sell for more, and just have excellent profit margins, but on the flipside, there's teams you want to avoid like the plague! For example, the Angels are a waste of time and personally, I more often than not have been disappointed by Cubs and Cardinals players for whatever reason. Oh, and the Yankees! There isn't much Stubs to be made off the Yankees.

Aside from that, it's all about finding your rhythm. If you place a buy order and the profit margins are nice but by the time you actually get the card, the margins have dropped -- hold onto them! Chances are the price will be back to a healthy profit within the next 6-12 hours.

I hope this helps someone. Good luck guys!

Congrats! I accomplished LS collections as well. It’s a great feeling and makes your ranked team so much better. Now it’s the grind to prestige all those great cards.

One thing I would add to your stub making method is playing the market based off the schedule. The majority of stubs I’ve made on the market are from investing. What I mean is pay attention to the SDS schedule and their plan for player programs, monthly awards, and events. Buy cards based off of that. For example, events prices increase because of the increase in buy now orders. Program prices increase because the majority of players opt to do exchanges rather than missions or moments.

It’s rewarding completing the LS collection after being smart and frugal with your stubs!

That is brilliant and I will definitely be taking advantage of this in the future. Thanks for the tip, man!

@bhall09 said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

Not to be a [censored], but did you read the whole thread?

It wont let me delete the comment

302,163 away...

June 1st or bust.

I’m currently about 360k away. If the stub sale hits this week, it will probably be 500

@SaveFarris said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

302,163 away...

June 1st or bust.

Godspeed, my friend.

I was at 40k after I bought Gerrit Cole last week, I needed around 360K and finally got to it today. But my flipping was brutal and not for anyone who wants to do pretty much anything but stare at menus for a few days.

Congrats! I know how much work and dedication is involved in your achievement ....much respect.
I flipped like crazy to collect every card in 2018 and only missing a handful from last year. I flipped so much that i am completely flipped out lol! I tried it this year, maybe because there is no transaction limit i feel like I would never ever play a gameb if i tried flipping again. I'm enjoying progressing through the game gradually and collecting all the bosses while slowly working on the live series collection. The best thing about being accomplished in the marketplace is that the urge to buy stubs doesn't even cross your mind
happy collecting on the rest of the cards!

How long did it take you to be able to buy each high diamond? Say you started around 10-20k stubs

Congrats man! I know the grind I finished today as well. Now I'm focusing on maxing out all affinities and the prospect collection!

Another tip for anyone out there looking to get into flipping:

Study the market. Make a mental note of what certain cards go for at certain times of the day. Sometimes it changes but usually I would put my buy orders in at night (like a metric TON of them) and most would be filled by the time I played in the afternoon the next day. If the prices were where I liked them, I'd put in my sell orders.

For example, if I knew say... Michael Kopech goes for around 126-130 later in the day and he's going for 92 at the moment, I'd hold off and just sell them when the price got back to where I knew it should. It's all about memorizing this, and I'm not sure if that sounds super difficult to anyone but the more I flipped, the more familiar I was with what each player's price usually settled around. For example, Jacob Stallings usually sells for around 228-240 Stubs. Brandon Belt goes for around 166-173, Jordan Yamamoto goes for around 145-157. I bet if you were to look right now, these prices would be correct or at least close to it. It's all about knowing when to strike, whether that be striking to buy, or to sell.

@braydencombs said in It's over. After weeks of flipping...:

How long did it take you to be able to buy each high diamond? Say you started around 10-20k stubs

I usually did start from there. So, here's how I acquired all of the high diamonds in order of how I got them:

Max Scherzer - I went out of my way and bought him within the first few days of the early access period since I thought the Vlad looked great for the price. I paid 63,000 Stubs for Scherzer.

Nolan Arenado - Here's an ironic one, I pulled Arenado from a Ballin' is a Habit pack, kept him for a bit and nearly locked him in so many times. Eventually, I sold him for 109K to buy Luis Robert and Nate Pearson the first time they did those "Flash sales," unfortunately for me and anyone else who bought the Prospect cards, they were pretty much given away the next day after the "flash sale."

Mike Trout - For the first time since The Show 16, I pulled Mike Trout! In a standard pack, mind you, from beating the 2nd Inning Showdown. This was exhilarating and the moment I knew I was going to go for the Live Series collection.

Gerrit Cole - I went from about 30K to 170K in about 4 or 5 days of spending about an 2-3 hours per day flipping. This was just starting out so... you'll get a lot faster and more efficient the more you do it.

Cody Bellinger - I dropped all the way down to like 16K after buying Cole, but it only took me about two days of absolutely going HARD at the market to get enough for Bellinger. I bought him for 164K.

Jacob deGrom - I still don't know how but I made enough Stubs in a day to get deGrom. I was going very hard at this point and probably spent 10+ hours flipping that day. Paid 108K.

Nolan Arenado - Everything comes full circle. I had another day of going way hard and made enough to get Nolan for 138K.

I still don't know how I did it. But not having a life for the past few days surely helped.