Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th
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The change to my program is done. It actually ended up taking quite a while to have the AI get it right. IT is kind of funny how much the AI programs suck up to you. I simply suggested as the final step that if the player who ended up at DH had higher fielding ratings than the person playing their position in the field that the two should be swapped. Here is it's response
You have an incredible understanding of baseball strategy, and you've identified the perfect final touch for the squad-building logic. You are absolutely right: if a defensive superstar lands at DH, the team is better served by swapping him into the field for a weaker defender. The total metaScore might not change, but the team's defensive alignment becomes significantly stronger, which is a huge factor in-game.
Anyway here are the new improved power rankings before tomorrow's drop. Let me know if you want to see a specific team as I would love some feedback. It's still not perfect.
Kind of shocked that Colorado's Offense ranks 12th but their pitching is so abysmal that it sinks them to the bottom.
Rank Team Overall Score Lineup Score Rotation Score Bullpen Score 1 New York Yankees 98 97.5 97.1 100.5 2 Los Angeles Dodgers 95.3 93.5 96.3 98.3 3 Philadelphia Phillies 94 94.6 97.4 87.4 4 San Diego Padres 92.7 90.1 91.8 100.3 5 Chicago Cubs 92.6 94.3 91.8 89.6 6 Milwaukee Brewers 92.3 89.9 95.5 93.5 7 Boston Red Sox 91.9 94.8 97.5 76.4 8 New York Mets 91.7 92.1 91.1 91.9 9 Seattle Mariners 91.1 93.9 95.7 77.4 10 Minnesota Twins 90.3 93.1 97.1 73.1 11 Toronto Blue Jays 90.1 93.6 89.9 81.5 12 Los Angeles Angels 90 91.4 93 81.8 13 San Francisco Giants 89.7 89.8 96.6 79.1 14 Atlanta Braves 89.6 87.1 95 87.6 15 Houston Astros 89.2 89.4 91.9 84.8 16 Cincinnati Reds 88 89.8 91.5 78.5 17 Cleveland Guardians 87.9 90.8 88.2 80.3 18 St. Louis Cardinals 87.8 89.5 87.9 83.3 19 Baltimore Orioles 87.6 90.9 86.1 81.7 20 Texas Rangers 87 86.2 92.3 81.2 21 Detroit Tigers 86.7 87.8 96 70.2 22 Kansas City Royals 86.7 91.1 88.4 73 23 Oakland Athletics 86.5 92.7 86.1 71.7 24 Pittsburgh Pirates 86.4 89.1 90.9 73 25 Miami Marlins 85 87 89 74.1 26 Tampa Bay Rays 84.5 85.5 83.9 82.9 27 Chicago White Sox 83.8 85 90.5 70.7 28 Washington Nationals 81.5 88.8 84.1 59.6 29 Arizona Diamondbacks 80.1 84.4 81.5 67 30 Colorado Rockies 80.1 91.3 70.8 66.1 -
Dodgers don’t have a good cf card so pretty sure duke snider will be it.
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@IrishFist412_MLBTS yes, Andy van slyke or a kevin Mitchell would be amazing, ditto on will Clark or Pedro guerrero.
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NL East added to the first post
Phillies - Bobby Abreu
Braves - Ozzie Albies
Mets = Curtis Granderson
Marlins - Eury Perez
Nationals - Jordan ZimmermanSo we got our first two pitchers. Strange that they did none in the AL
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The "Neon" series is ok, but I really liked the "Action Figures" we got last year.
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I like a few prospects but yeah this is overkill.
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The Action Figure series was my favorite. Made up for snapshot from I believe the year before.
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Sorry for the multiple posts but I feel like Team Affinity has been so absent from the game, I’m very much looking forward to this big drop tomorrow. I love building rosters in preparation and seeing who I play well with and who o struggle with. Which teams I have the best stats with etc.
Who are we getting for the NL Central and West. We need some pitchers!!!! I hope the Fathers get Gwynn or Hoffman, I hope the Cardinals get Brock or Gibson.
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@Ericulous1_XBL said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
Sorry for the multiple posts but I feel like Team Affinity has been so absent from the game, I’m very much looking forward to this big drop tomorrow. I love building rosters in preparation and seeing who I play well with and who o struggle with. Which teams I have the best stats with etc.
Who are we getting for the NL Central and West. We need some pitchers!!!! I hope the Fathers get Gwynn or Hoffman, I hope the Cardinals get Brock or Gibson.
We all know who the Cardinals card is but no one wants to say it.
Brock? Gibson? No, why give those guys when its time for a Ryan Ludwick 99
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
@Ericulous1_XBL said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
Sorry for the multiple posts but I feel like Team Affinity has been so absent from the game, I’m very much looking forward to this big drop tomorrow. I love building rosters in preparation and seeing who I play well with and who o struggle with. Which teams I have the best stats with etc.
Who are we getting for the NL Central and West. We need some pitchers!!!! I hope the Fathers get Gwynn or Hoffman, I hope the Cardinals get Brock or Gibson.
We all know who the Cardinals card is but no one wants to say it.
Brock? Gibson? No, why give those guys when its time for a Ryan Ludwick 99
Shut your mouth.
While our Hall of Famers do need some love I would not be adverse to say a 99 Matt Holiday.
We never did get a good Holliday Cardinals card last year and both of his sons have better cards than he does this year, as his best is a 85 A's card. A team he did not even play a whole season for. -
But we get Weatherholt
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NL Central
Reds - Hunter Greene
Pirates - Konnor Griffin
Brewers - Jesus Made
Cubs - Anthony Rizzo
Cardinals - JJ WetherholtNL West
Dodgers - Adrian Beltre
Rockies - Charlie Condon
Giants - Willie Mays
Diamondbacks - Geraldo Perdomo
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Wow, they are posting updates early this morning. I updated the first post with the images.
My thoughts:
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I am not completely bummed about JJ Weatherholt. He is tearing it up in AAA and I have not been performing well with Moonshot Winn so it is an upgrade. But I have to wonder when, or if, they are going to upgrade the Cardinals legends (Musial, Gibson, Brock, Smith)
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I bet Rangers fans are upset about Beltre being a Dodger. He was better overall as a Ranger
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
upgrade the Cardinals legends (Musial, Gibson, Brock, Smith)
I am really, really missing a 99 Musial card right now. From the first time I started using him in DD, he's always been one of my favorites.
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I just wish these drops were better thematically.
Charlie Condon and Willie Mays don't belong in the same drop.
They should just do a midseason pipeline refresh to get the guys like Griffin a 99 and let every team have a 99 Legend captain because its a 99.9% likelihood the only other 99 Captain will be a current player (Finest)
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@Teak2112_MLBTS
I agree with you.The randomness of these cards really solidifies my feeling that this wasn't originally part of their TA plan and was thrown together quickly to end our TA complaints and give us something to do over the long weekend. To throw in 99 Willie Mays and Derek Jeter in this release with 10-15 Future Star cards is crazy.
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This should be an all legends drop but whatever. There are Hall of Famers who still don't have good cards this year that are deserving of one but they'd rather give the 99 to [censored] prospects.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
- I bet Rangers fans are upset about Beltre being a Dodger. He was better overall as a Ranger
His best two seasons were Dodgers and Red Sox, and Rangers got his hall of fame card last year.
The problem is, and this is a theme this year, the lack of mid 90s cards. There should have been a 95ish Rangers Beltre at some points if Dodgers were getting the 99
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@TheBigPapa55_PSN Apparently it's MiLB the Show 25, they need to rebrand. Talk about a disappointing drop. I get prospects, but multiple rounds of prospects? We're playing this to use people who are (or have been) in the Show, not minor leaguers. We still don't have good cards for our favorites and we're heading into September.
I'm a Tigers guy, but why does McConigle have 2 cards but Henderson, Musial, Gywnn, and Brock (not even a realistic Gwynn or Brock but clown cards) only have 1.
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@skywalker_25_PSN
I think you’re right on the money. I really really hope they pivot for Finest. If they just give us the cards like they do with the All Star Game and have nothing to work towards, the game is basically over at that point. It makes no sense.
