<![CDATA[Ws this Year]]>Despite the negativity around the game this year, I wanted to call out a few massive Ws that have been game-changing for me:

  • Depth of field blur: Being able to consistently see the ball has been the single biggest gameplay improvement for me this year.
  • Parallel mods: Still room to improve (I'd love more than +9 when fully committing to one category, like contact or power), but they have made so many cards more usable. I have a mod on 90%+ of my P5 cards.
  • The big collections have been awesome: Tulo, Miggy, V-Mart, Beltran, and Zobrist. I know Zobrist is getting some hate today because he was not an all-time LEGEND, but he is a community-favorite meta card, plus he's a switch hitter who can play everywhere.
  • Another Legends & Flashbacks collection in November is a huge W and should help keep people playing (I just hope I don't have to wait until November for Griffey 😁 )
  • Milestone programs and how quickly they have been released have been incredible.
  • The market adjustments to combat bots, along with banning third-party stub site purchasers and promoters.

The game is not perfect, but these have been legitimate, meaningful improvements for me.

Let's keep this one positive: what have been some of your favorite additions or changes this year?

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/topic/84806/ws-this-yearRSS for NodeSun, 20 Sep 2026 18:17:40 GMTFri, 18 Sep 2026 20:09:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:04:48 GMT]]>@Bridge-Piece_XBL Agree completely.

No reason why they shouldn't be 99s, but some of my favourite cards this year have been Topps Now.

Amongst them Justin Crawford, Noah Schultz, Trent Grisham, Andrew Morris, Sung-Mun Song, Henry Bolte, Edwin Arroyo, Cole Carrigg, Cooper Hjerpe, Will Dion, Hagen Smith.

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/post/779953https://forums.theshow.com/post/779953Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:04:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:53:10 GMT]]>WBC is maybe the best drop they have ever done. Great variety of cards and they were fun to use

Id also like to call out the WBC mini season as the different divisions gave variety when you repeated it multiple times

Getting rid of the no sell offline cards mid year in response to player feedback

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/post/779952https://forums.theshow.com/post/779952Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:53:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:52:14 GMT]]>@Rhyno1986_XBL I think that’s more about how they’re handling power creep this year. We got to 99s pretty quickly, but most have been on the lower end of the meta. Seems like the strategy is to gradually release more juiced 99s as the year goes on. Not sure that this is related to the parallel mods, even though there’s been a narrative around that idea.

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@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

They made some Topps Now and Spotlight cards that really banged for the first time in a long time.

It's a shame most ignore them because there have been some absolute belters.

I agree. Though I do think at this point in the year they should make the remaining TN cards a 99. I’ve had fun with some though throughout the year - and definitely with Spotlight cards.

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/post/779950https://forums.theshow.com/post/779950Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:46:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:54:15 GMT]]>They made some Topps Now and Spotlight cards that really banged for the first time in a long time.

It's a shame most ignore them because there have been some absolute belters.

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/post/779941https://forums.theshow.com/post/779941Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:54:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:06:11 GMT]]>Whike the mods system is cool and boosts some usually unusable cards, it also has made SDS make cards less attractive in general. Look at 75% of one side hitting cards. Most UNLESS you put a mod on are unusable on anything higher then All-star because of vision being nerfed on cards this year. So while the mods system is nice, them using it to not make good usable card to bieggin with it an easy opt out for them to just blaim players.

]]>https://forums.theshow.com/post/779921https://forums.theshow.com/post/779921Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:06:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ws this Year on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:24:44 GMT]]>Wheel spins in MP program.

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