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No need to be all extra. Just have a separate ranked salary cap mode. Use minimum and maximum player ratings that adjust with the power creep.

I dont even care if they keep it so simple to the point that it has the same rewards and uses the same rating across salary cap and regular ranked.

I like to use different theme teams in ranked, I used a cubs and a negro league theme team in my last 2 weekend classic games. Plus I also like trying out different cards, so it would be nice to see some variation in my opponents lineups too.

The packs clearly say that they're all cards from the themed programs from those packs.

I'm pretty sure they're meant for people who got the game late and people who dont read descriptions.

@FISH_KIKI_PSN said in DOUBLE VOUCHER PAYOUT!!!:

Did last years game have world series predictions? I hope we get more than a bat skin. I doubled down as well.

Im pretty sure there wasn't but I have a terrible memory. And im assuming the rewards will be much better than 5 packs and a bat skin, I was just joking lol.

I can't lay down bunts to save my life either. I was trying to bunt cheese through the extreme showdown with Neon Chandler Simpson who also has 99 bunt and drag bunt, with the perk as well, and couldn't get one down.

I gave up and learned that the Neon Chandler Simpson absolutely rakes, at least in the showdown lol

I almost regretted doubling down and taking the NL voucher instead of the AL voucher before the series started.

But now im ready for my 5 packs and a bat skin lol

@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Chase pack:

@NotesOfJohn_MLBTS

I know you are new to mlb the show but a lot of the frustration this year with packs is that they are far worse than previous years.

There are people who say this every year.

@jisaksen2422_PSN said in Cheaters arent even hiding this weekend classic:

@TheBigPapa55_PSN

Ok, genius.

The point is that they should be matched with players of a similar skill level.

I agree, but how is that the point here? It's just someone crying that everyone else is cheating because they're losing games.

If you're struggling on the higher difficulties, I'd recommend having 2 or 3 of the bunt cheese guys in your lineup, and the rest be high contact high vision and all 4 bench spots being 99 spd 99 steal guys if you got them. Neon Chandler Simpson and postseason Garrett Hampson both have 99 spd and drag bunting, as does HOF Honus Wagner if you got him, but id use him off the bench since he can play any position and is the perfect pinch runner for a slower batter.

Use guess pitch, I cant remember the name of the one, but when you guess the pitch and the location correctly the location lights up red. Pick the pitch you feel most comfortable with hitting and keep guessing it until you get 2 strikes. I wouldn't use it with 2 strikes, because in my experience the penalty for guessing wrong is pretty high even if you put the pci on the ball pretty good. And when you get to 2 strikes just swing away and hope for the best and use contact swing if you got a guy on in hopes of just moving him over.

Im not elite at the game, but I think im slightly above average and I dont struggle on HOF or legend difficulties the way I used too. But this is still a strategy I break out from time to time whenever Im feeling less locked in.

@nymets1987_PSN said in Don't Forget Your World Series Prediction Voucher:

@allday9128_PSN said in Don't Forget Your World Series Prediction Voucher:

I picked the Dodgers and I waited to open the AL/NL vouchers until I saw the teams. I debated on going AL just so I get something regardless, but decided to just double down and took NL.

I thought u had to do prior to the playoffs beginning

You had to pick the team one before the DS started, but the league one was before the first game of the world series.

I picked the Dodgers and I waited to open the AL/NL vouchers until I saw the teams. I debated on going AL just so I get something regardless, but decided to just double down and took NL.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in Pack Luck?:

@allday9128_PSN
Who’d you pay off

Im not sure who's happy with me, but I do but lots of packs. I've always been a bit of a gambler, so I usually chase the card from buying the packs instead of buying the card itself. Which is pretty stupid lol but whoever is happy with me over there, I hope it follows me to next year's game too

I think pulled every LS diamond this year except 1 big one. I think it was Witt. But other than that, Ohtani twice, Judge multiple times, and Tatis, Trout, Ramirez and Lindor multiple times when they were all 80k-100k+.

I've gotten at least 1 rare round, some multiple, out of every program pack. And plenty of spotlight players from the packs with Topps now or spotlight cards.

Then Babe Ruth and mackey twice and just pulled a 2nd Chipper a couple nights ago.

All in all I'd say pretty good.

Will Smith. But I pulled Chipper from a chase pack last night, that im not even sure how I got.

@Dolenz_PSN said in Why is hitting online so hard now?:

@allday9128_PSN said in Why is hitting online so hard now?:

Yeah it's crazy that hitting is harder when everyone is using 99 overall pitchers. I wonder why?

Yeah, I don't know if it is the case or not, but theoretically a 99 hitter should have just as much success against a 99 pitcher as an 85 hitter would have against an 85 pitcher.

The 99 overall pitchers most people will use have outlier, break outlier, high break, usually 100+ hits and K's per 9. That's what's making it tougher to hit. If youre squaring everything up you'll be fine most of the time, regardless if its 85 vs 85 or 99 vs 99.

Most people will come here complaining that they manipulated the sliders without telling us, screwed with the timing windows, blah blah blah. It's ok to say that you're having a tougher time hitting because its harder to decipher 99 overall Randy Johnsons fastball from his splitter than it was 85 Chase Burns fastball from his circle change. But some just cant do that.

Yeah it's crazy that hitting is harder when everyone is using 99 overall pitchers. I wonder why?

According to the new update the default golds on co-op are going to be replaced with 97+. I haven't played much co op this year since my only friend that did play this a little bit hasn't played at all lol. But still good to the change finally happen.

@Dolenz_PSN said in 2 QOL Fix Suggestions:

It is incredibly stupid that when you do a moment from the program menu that when you complete the moment it takes you all the way out of the program you are working on and requires you to navigate to the program and moments again to to do the next one. I realize that I can do moments from the dedicated moments menu to get around this but it does not negate the fact that the design is a QOL failure.

I was just thinking to myself last night that if they borrowed anything from Madden ultimate team,it would be how you can advance from one challenge to the next without going back to the menus.

They added the feature a couple years ago(and im assuming its still a thing?) and for those that dont know, they made it to where when you finish a moment you dont need to go back to the menus to go to the next moment. You can just click go to next challenge and it will take you automatically to the next challenge in whatever set of challenges you're in.

I'm sitting on about 80k in xp programs and conquest maps. 10k for the last game in the kyle Schwarber mini season. Have the voucher for the 50k and hoping that there will be 50k worth of exchanges. So I should be at 190k xp as soon as the program drops. Plus I haven't touched the new mini seasons yet.

So im hoping I can be home on Friday right when the new path drops so I can take advantage of this and make some stubs off that first boss

@Leolynnard18_PSN said in Yeah didn’t know that employees of SDS get to change prices of cards in the marketplace.:

Obviously no card flippers here...

It's crazy that some people think they're the only ones trying to buy or sell a particular card lol

And if im flipping a card, I assume others are too. So i never put in a sell order 1 less, I usually go 3 or 4 stubs less. So if I see a card listed at 10,000 I don't put a sell order for 9,999, just because im assuming that in the time it took me to click the card and type the price someone else has already posted the card for 9,999. So I post mine for 9,997 and then sure enough there's cards listed at 9,999 and 9,998 and then there's mine at 9,997. Then I come on here and see people think I'm a bot lol

@SaveFarris_PSN said in PSA - Flash Sale - 8/12/2025:

Just buy a bunch of cards to flip in the morning and then forget to flip them until after the sale starts and watch their value plummet.

Oops?

Oh well, had the stubs to burn anyway. Locking in Bautista.

I was flipping the HRD cards this morning, and got upset when prices went down a bit and had to eat like a 3k loss on them. Little did I know at the time it could've gotten alot worse lol