Weekend Classic Exploit
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@beanball0571_PSN they are making the game way too hard. They Need to loosen it up a little. Supposed to be fun. Bad swings are a bloop, great swings are an out, good swings do nothing. Only people enjoying it are the pros and u tubers.
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@GooseOnEm_PSN
I agree.. I think the placement needs to be changed.. one idea I’ve had : highest rating shouldn’t reset with ranked seasons reset.
So say a player reaches 800 rating any in point before the next classic, come classic time he’s placed based on his highest achieved rating ever instead of resetting each season.Another idea: they could do placement matches at either the start of each season, or on launch.. it’s not a fix all..
I have other ideas on how to prevent or make it harder/less rewarding to Smurf but I don’t think they’ll ever do what it would take to achieve that goal..
It’s a byproduct of skill based match making and having earned content that is tied to SBMM and performance..
One one hand, its content that adds incentive to play, and having content for players of higher skill levels gives those players something to grind for. But at the same time, this is the trade off.
Another idea that just dawned on me.
They just implement it into the game that if you quit out of x amount of ranked games in a season, you should be restricted come classic time on rewards…
Cause that’s another thing,
In order to Smurf but still play each season and complete multiplayer xp path, you have to quit out of a bunch of games to manipulate your rating.. that’s how you wind up with so many smurfs in weekend classic..
If they made that change, they’d have to make a choice..
Either miss out on multiplayer xp path and not play until classic and hope your team is good enough?
Or wind up having to play at their true division..
If I never quit a single ranked seasons game. I’d probably hover around the 700 rated mark. Maybe mid to high 700’s at best.. but never 800.. and never below like 450 only time I’d be that low is at ranked reset..I’m also guilty of smurfing..
I try to stay silver. (500-699) for classic.. and then before classic I’ll tank my rating depending on what division I know I’ll be in..
If I’m gonna be in silver 1,and I’m really hell bent on going 6-0 I’ll tank it down to like 300 maybe a little lower , because even though I’ll be in the 500-599 division, with the way placement is structured, and matchmaking works, I’ll get matched based on current ratings..
There’s a lot of players who’s max may be 500, but that’s their absolute peak, and maybe going into classic their current rating is much lower. What that also does is give you a higher probability to go 6-0 cause as you know, as you win IN WC your rating increases and thus, the minimum rating matchmaking threshold increases as well..
Do the math,call it +50 rating per win.
If I’m Locked in the 500-599, am a true 750 rated player but start out game 1 in the 300-370 spread, I win 1 game ( I don’t remember the differential in the threshold, but point being after 1 win I’m now in the low 400’s to high 300’s.
After my second win it goes up 50..
By game 6 if I’m 5-0 I should be at 550 rated..That threshold is a lot lower vs if I’d started out the classic currently rated 500.. and my chances of going 6-0 and facing smurfs becomes increasingly more probable.
there again,
If they introduced WC reward punishment for quitting out of too many games I think that alone would have a big difference -
The more I think about it…
If you quit out of too many games between each classic should just be unable to compete/ play ranked during weekend classic..
simply punishing rewards for them alone wouldn’t prevent them from screwing up someone else’s run..I think that’s the realistic/logical fix..
The question becomes: “how many quits “
What that number should be I can’t say intelligently right now.
If I wanted to I could do some testing and look at the numbers and use that to come up with an educated number of “this amount of quits” but right now I’d be just throwing stuff at the wall -
Hold on. I got up to 576. Then got my a.. kicked in last night and dropped down to 420. Still in silver 1 500 to 600 weekend classic pool. Unless im playing lower players now. I only played one game and he was in the 500 rankings. Which is what it is supposed to be. I should only be playing people rated 500 to 599. If this is not the case. Thats not right. Bad
For WC regardless of whether you win alot or lose alot you stay in the division you made it too. So if you made to silver 1 even if you win enough to reach 800 you will continue to play in silver 1 on All-star. There are alot of player who abuse this who are probably normally 750-850 rated players whi just want the extra rewards.
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I’m a casual player that caps at DS sometime CS but I’ve only ever made WS once. This year I made DS in the first season and was looking forward to some competitive weekend classic games, but instead I get matched up with absolute sweats who are WS players, got a high league for Weekend Classic, and then tanked to play your average joes like me.
Such [censored]. They should have to play people in their league.
They did fix it this year but remember that yoi can get to WS in CoOp and get a banner. So seems like some players are just sandbagging to stay lower this year. While making sure to get to WS in CoOp this way they get 2 WS packs.
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SDS is out of their league, please just sell the rights to a better developer so they can make a good baseball game.
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@GooseOnEm_PSN Same thing just happened to me. I'm in Silver 2 and just played a player with a World Series icon. Rather than match players against players in the same reward tier, it appears that they match players solely on rating. So a player can peak at 800, slot into the Gold 2 reward tier, then lose a bunch of games to tank their rating prior to Weekend Classic, and then matchup with low rated players while still playing in Gold 2. This is broken.
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@MiSsippiKid96_XBL Thank you for describing the issue very clearly. What if SDS only allowed players within the same reward tier to play each other? That would presumably solve the problem.
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@BalsamicArrow88_XBL sadly there’s not really any better option. Ea and 2k all have just as big of flaws if not bigger Sds has delivered in the past even tho I do agree this year has been extremely frustrating.
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@Luv2Float_PSN this was a problem first weekend classic last year as I’ve said in other posts this is a good idea performed poorly.
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Consider also that there are some people like me - I hate playing ranked 9-inning games, so I only play enough to get multiplayer rewards. Then, I reluctantly play weekend classic. Im about a 700 player, but of course Ill be in the lower division because I never play.
BTW, Im shocked how many lower ranked players have Pujols and Tulo. Im not really knocking it - average players have just as much right as good players to spend for a stacked team. I just feel a little bad for some players - like they thought getting these guys would make them good, and slowly they're realizing that nothing makes you good at this game, lol
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@rubicante23_PSN I mean that’s crazy I’m a ws player and my timeline for ls collection is usually June July.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I’m not so sure. If EA or 2K could put the right team together, they could make a great baseball game. Especially with gameplay and graphics. I have been playing WWE 2k26 and it is one of the better sports games I’ve played in awhile, I haven’t even watched pro wrestling since the attitude era.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN well, yeah...they're clearly just buying the players. Judging from how many are doing that, seems like sds is raking it in, lol
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@rubicante23_PSN yeah or cause I got rly lucky pulls and was able to do it Nms but there’s no way everybody is.
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Consider also that there are some people like me - I hate playing ranked 9-inning games, so I only play enough to get multiplayer rewards. Then, I reluctantly play weekend classic. Im about a 700 player, but of course Ill be in the lower division because I never play.
BTW, Im shocked how many lower ranked players have Pujols and Tulo. Im not really knocking it - average players have just as much right as good players to spend for a stacked team. I just feel a little bad for some players - like they thought getting these guys would make them good, and slowly they're realizing that nothing makes you good at this game, lol
I just got tulo yesterday. The past 5 or 6 years ive had the collection done earlier. I suck at the game and I fully realize that having great cards won't make me good. The only saving grace I usually have or hope for are OP pitchers locked behind pay walls because I usually have plenty if stubs for such cards whereas most the people I face on AS will not lol
The biggest reason I get collections done ASAP is for me and my coop partner to enjoy good cards. I bring the expensive ones and he fills in where we need. The second biggest reason is because I am usually done playing by July as my summer schedule gets busy with kids being out of school (late June they are done here in Canada) and summer projects take over.
So yeah, I suck and no cards make me better but whatever. I like having good cards to swing and miss with lol
