The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data
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Legends and Flashback Rankings By Year (Sorted by Average Rank)
Team 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Average Rank New York Yankees 1 1 1 1 1 1.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 3 3 4 2 2 2.8 Boston Red Sox 10 7 2 8 4 6.2 Atlanta Braves 4 4 3 5 10 5.2 Cincinnati Reds 2 9 13 6 5 7.0 Philadelphia Phillies 20 2 6 8 5 8.2 St. Louis Cardinals 6 5 5 8 16 8.0 Chicago Cubs 18 9 9 3 3 8.4 Baltimore Orioles 5 9 7 14 7 8.4 New York Mets 18 13 16 4 7 11.6 San Francisco Giants 8 18 12 12 19 13.8 Minnesota Twins 15 16 20 8 19 15.6 Houston Astros 15 6 8 14 9 10.4 Seattle Mariners 10 23 16 24 12 17.0 Pittsburgh Pirates 23 9 14 24 12 16.4 Texas Rangers 27 27 10 17 19 20.0 Toronto Blue Jays 22 14 21 24 11 18.4 Oakland Athletics 12 17 25 17 16 17.4 San Diego Padres 20 23 23 7 12 17.0 Cleveland Guardians 8 7 24 17 23 15.8 Los Angeles Angels 15 15 18 21 19 17.6 Milwaukee Brewers 14 27 21 21 15 19.6 Chicago White Sox 7 19 28 20 28 20.4 Detroit Tigers 23 25 18 16 18 20.0 Tampa Bay Rays 12 29 15 28 26 22.0 Arizona Diamondbacks 30 20 10 28 30 23.6 Colorado Rockies 29 20 27 13 27 23.2 Miami Marlins 23 20 25 21 28 23.4 Washington Nationals 23 26 29 27 25 26.0 Kansas City Royals 27 30 29 30 24 28.0
Improvement / Decline Insights
Significant Improvement Trends
- Chicago Cubs made one of the biggest long-term improvements, jumping from 18th in 2021 to 3rd in both 2024 and 2025, marking a dramatic rise in production quality and consistency.
- Philadelphia Phillies surged from 20th in 2021 to 5th in 2025, showing a steady multi-year climb and a major turnaround in their Legends/Flashbacks output.
- Seattle Mariners rebounded strongly, climbing from 24th in 2024 to 12th in 2025, reversing a two-year downward trend.
- Toronto Blue Jays quietly improved, going from 24th in 2024 to 11th in 2025, giving them their best finish in the entire five-year window.
Major Decline Trends
- St. Louis Cardinals experienced the steepest drop of any previously top-tier team, falling from five straight top-8 seasons to 16th in 2025, a major change in their production profile.
- San Francisco Giants declined sharply, finishing 8th in 2021 but falling to 19th in 2025, their worst ranking of the period.
- Cleveland Guardians showed a gradual long-term decline, moving from two top-8 finishes (2021–2022) down to 23rd in 2025.
- Texas Rangers regressed from a strong 10th place in 2023 back into the low-20s range in 2024 and 2025, undoing their brief improvement.
Extreme Volatility
- Arizona Diamondbacks had the wildest swing of any team, hitting 10th in 2023 but finishing 30th twice (2021 and 2025) and 28th in 2024 — no other team fluctuated this dramatically.
- San Diego Padres also show extreme boom-and-bust behavior, ranging from 7th in 2024 all the way down to 23rd in 2022 and 2023.
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Crazy that Guardians are still 23rd even though they won the Central and made the playoffs. Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez not getting an Indians card is crazy. Should still get a Bob Feller card, but it would nice to get Kenny Lofton back and a Albert Belle card.
Seems like they are really trying to avoid those Indians cards.
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Poor Royals fans, SDS is consistently ignoring their team
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For sure. They make the ALDS last year and still dead last. I know there isn't a whole lot of Legends they can pull from, but still. Losing Saberhagen was a big, but no KC Beltran is rough. THey could bring in Hal Mcrae, David Cone's Cy Young year, and Willie Wilson to name a few.
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Common denominator = World Series teams get more flashbacks. Blue Jays 2025, Rangers and Diamondbacks 2023. Explains the volatility for those teams you highlight.
@Dolenz_PSN do you have a similar list with just legends. Bet there are a select few teams that completely dominate that list.
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@Jeff7407_PSN said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
@Dolenz do you have a similar list with just legends. Bet there are a select few teams that completely dominate that list.
Not really. My Vault program with all of the card data from 21 to 24 is not that detailed. Maybe I will be motivated to add it one day.
I would like to also point out that the Insights section was entirely done by AI so I could keep my biases out of it.
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I know my team (Angels) doesn’t deserve too many 99s historically or lately, but I’d like to see a 99 OVR Awards 2018 ROY Ohtani. Started playing in ’22. Did they ever have that card? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it since I started playing.
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Zack Greinke, Bret Saberhagen, Gil Meche, Cole Ragans, Johnny Cueto - the Royals' only 99 starting pitcher: Stephen Kolek
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@markemark_NSW said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
I know my team (Angels) doesn’t deserve too many 99s historically or lately, but I’d like to see a 99 OVR Awards 2018 ROY Ohtani. Started playing in ’22. Did they ever have that card? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it since I started playing.
Between The Show 21 and the Show 25 I do not show that he has ever gotten an Awards series card.
Between The Show 21 and The Show 24 he had a total of 21 cards. 17 of those cards were for the Angels. 6 out of 8 of his 99's in that span were Angels cards.
Since he was traded he has not gotten a single Angels card. He has gotten 8 cards in the last 2 years, half of which were 99s and they have all been Dodger cards
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This is where it can be ok to have multiple 99s. Soto is another guy they could have put in a Nats 99 for, in fact him having only Mets cards this year is a waste
But when you restrict Retro Finest program to 5 cards you are quite limited.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
This is where it can be ok to have multiple 99s. Soto is another guy they could have put in a Nats 99 for, in fact him having only Mets cards this year is a waste
But when you restrict Retro Finest program to 5 cards you are quite limited.
I'm interested to see what they do with the upcoming content. Do they make the next inning all about rewind packs? Or do they give us more Retro Finest cards and sprinkle in some rewind packs?
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I'm assuming the DQ will be run it back and the next inning will be forever inning
Not sure about the player program though. Could be a retirement program but there arent any big names retiring. Another Rizzo or a 99 Daniel Bard is not very exciting. Theyve given Carpenter potential retirement cards 2 years in a row now, but I guess this time it can be for real.
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@markemark_NSW said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
I know my team (Angels) doesn’t deserve too many 99s historically or lately, but I’d like to see a 99 OVR Awards 2018 ROY Ohtani. Started playing in ’22. Did they ever have that card? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it since I started playing.
Flashback Shohei's:
2018: 82 POTM (April)
2018: 91 Future Star
2019: 89 Topps Now
2019: 95 Finest
2020: 88 Face of the Franchise
2020: 94 Awards
2021: 89 POTM
2021: 95 Home Run Derby
2021: 99 All-Star Game
2021: 99 Finest2022: 88 Cover Card
2022: 92 Topps Now
2022: 97 All-Star Game
2022: 99 Anime
2023: 97 WBC 1
2023: 99 WBC 2
2023: 92 Captain
2023: 99 POTM Lightning
2023: 99 Finest
2023: 84 Rookie
... and then he was never heard from again.
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Thanks for that list. The Awards ROY I hadn’t seen because I started playing in ‘22. Just didn’t have an Angel version of him in ’25 for my theme team!
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@Dolenz_PSN
Thanks for the info! Hoping they put some Angels Ohtani cards in ’26! -
@Teak2112_MLBTS said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
I'm assuming the DQ will be run it back and the next inning will be forever inning
Not sure about the player program though.
I am waiting to see if the start teasing cards today or not. So far just a single post in social media about the Community Wrap-Up Tournament.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in The Ultimate SDS Hates My Team Ammunition Data:
... and then he was never heard from again.
