@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

@GoozeFn_PSN its obvious. I dont need evidence. I believe what I see with my own brain and eyes. Everything tells me its not random. Its pre determined. You can still get unlucky or lucky with pre determined odds btw. Its just a more predatory way to do their pack odds. You dont put this past them? If odds were completely random, you would hear about people pulling multiple ohtanis. Find me someone who has pulled multiple ohtanis. You may find one or two people in the entire community. The law of random averages dictates there would be a handful of people that would pull ohtani a few times. You wont find anyone. Because the game knows and will pre determine that you do not pull him twice. Every pack that goes into your inventory already knows exactly what cards are in your packs. Its not random when you open it.

You think the devs you complain about being terrible EVERY DAY have a system that tracks thousands of cards inside hundreds of thousands of players inventories simultaneously? Is that why the servers are bad? Because they are actually SO ADVANCED they are tracking millions of data points from packs every second of the day? You know what man no evidence is needed. That is exactly what is happening.

Imagine if you will, a day where you pull Lars Nootbaar and Jimmy Crooks

Dolenz may disagree but if we’re at 8 above 0.500 imagine our line up minus Scott and Pages

Yadi is still there can coach Crooks, Lars is Lars and a clubhouse warrior.

Now we’d have Lars and the team squash all competition, as he hobbles off the field with his heels

Keep Victor to spell church and pinch run, hate to say it but no more pages go crooks.

Rainell is way far off, also his quads do not look like IRL

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN right! I feel like alot of the difference between stats with some of these stats mean very little. Power i can definitely tell the difference between 70 and a 100 Power, speed i can see a difference as well. Contact seems to be hit or miss, because it also depends on a pitchers confidence levels hit per 9s, stamina etc. Vision i dont think anyone knows what vision really does. Power seems to be the most important hitting stat in this game. All the good players, all they ever talk about is power. Power dictates the exit velocity off the bat which is pretty important in this game.

Now tell me the difference between 50 power and 80

There’s not much difference, anything below 80 is garbage- so they crank the stat to make say, have Schwarber hit more home runs

The thought of the design idea that contact Gwynn types just don’t do much

Tony Gwynn is an undesirable hitter. Thats so backwards. The game is now based around home runs or bust, or bunt and run or bust. It’s not baseball it’s horrible

One of the greatest hitters of all time is relegated to bench. Wtf

Mattingly Yount Boggs all badass players just not used at all

Hopefully

I just hate how blatant SDS is about it between their not fixing bugs or just doing random stuff they don’t even address it at all

Your 99 player that you did collections for, plays the exact same as the other versions

Which leads me to believe there’s maybe 3-4 stats on a player that actually mean anything, the rest are lies and eye candy

Discipline and Pitcher confidence are two hidden things not on cards. A 50 ovr pitcher can shell your 99 batter all day every day

Defensively other than speed nothing matters much, they all play the same because it’s animation locked

@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS said:

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL yea but everyone has the same odds. Whether the game wants to reward you or screw you. The odds don’t change person to person like it does in random like if you went to the casino.

The point is they’re not “odds” it’s payout expectatancy. They will always match that number

And SDS is pretty good about not volunteering that info on any card. One day you press square to see “odds” next day triangle, all they do is throw up say 1:7

Then a picture of some [censored] topps now card you really don’t want

And you’ll get him

@wsudelt778_MLBTS said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN I don't know that we can speak in absolutes here. I didn't play MLBtheShow for about a half decade. Played '25 for a month last year around the World Series. Picked it up this year because my son is playing baseball and have been having an absolute blast. I expect nothing from those packs but man was I excited when Judge flipped around. I have a long way to go to collect them all but I am having fun playing the game with each new card I get to try and find the cards I enjoy most. I even roped a close friend in that said he would never play. He is also having a blast. I definitely know they have some things that they can improve, but I have really enjoyed my time playing and feel like its a great value for what I spent on the game. I won't speak for everyone, but I am really having fun playing MLBtheShow.

As you should be. It just could be better, always strive to make [censored] better. It’s baseball coaching

Some day SDS will get a baseball coach