One of my biggest gripes with this game is the lack of modes to use my top, hard-earned players. Unless you count conquest which is what, like 24 innings per program, the only place to use our "God Squads" is Ranked Seasons.

I don't always have the time, energy, or stress management levels to play a full game of zeroed-in laser-focus RS, but would love to get some practice or casual at bats in with my top players.

A simple fix seems to be having an "Event" style 3 inning mode with no lineup restrictions. Have rewards like you would each event, and let us get up to 50 wins per inning program for rewards.

That way people can choose if they wanna play the quirky event for the buffed rewards, or the "4th Inning Event" for lesser-ish awards.

This would also make prestiging players more feasible since I'd have to play about 120 more RS games to come close for Biggio....

Not sure how anyone could object to this, people would self-select which mode they want to play without being limited to full 9-inning RS games on certain difficulties.

Maybe they'd have a HOF and All-Star option so you could practice. Sucks that I have to switch between HOF and All-Star cold turkey here and there since I'm in Division Series and hover between the two.

I come from 2K, and their "Triple Threat" mode is similar to events, much shorter, fun to climb the ladder for rewards without the "all-or-nothing" sweatiness that's not always desired.

Edit: found one on Reddit. Wish I had this BEFORE I grinder the Belli lol

Source: @metskid22 on Reddit

Comprehensive Guide to RTTS/DD Ballplayer (CAP) Batter Loadouts/Positions

Ok onto the fun stuff, here is where each path leads:
(Note: I am fairly confident the diamond archetypes are the same position as the Gold ones and are the same name as well, just judging by the few Diamonds I have grinded to get, so you can safely assume each gold one is it's final preferred position)

Sparkplug

Bronze - Sparkplug - 2B

Silver - Slugging Sparkplug LF - Speedy Sparkplug - SS - Slick Sparkplug CF

Slugging Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Tool Shed LF and The Hawk SS

Speedy Sparkplug leads to Gold - Rawhide 2B and The Spoke CF

Slick Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Dewey RF and The Dart CF

Slugger

Bronze - Slugger - 1B

Silver - Sparking Slugger 1B - Speedy Slugger - LF - Slick Slugger 3B

Sparking Slugger leads to Gold - The Duke LF and Crime Dog 3B

Speedy Slugger leads to Gold - El Ambusador LF and El Nino CF

Slick Slugger leads to Gold - Yo Adrian 3B and The Showboat 3B

Speedster

Bronze - Speedster - CF

Silver - Sparking Speedster 2B - Slugging Speedster - LF - Slick Speedster CF

Sparking Speedster leads to Gold - Cool Papa CF and Man of Steel LF

Slugging Speedster leads to Gold - Sheff RF and The Winny LF

Slick Speedster leads to Gold - The Werth LF and The Lark SS

Slick Fielding

Bronze - Slick Fielding - C

Silver - Sparking Slickster SS - Slugging Slickster - 3B - Speedy Slickster CF

Sparking Slickster leads to Gold - The Wizard SS and The Mechanical Man SS

Slugging Slickster leads to Gold - Ironman 3B and El Mago SS

Speedy Slickster leads to Gold - The Belli CF and The Fly Chaser **2B

Below is a cleaned up view of all positions and their Gold/Diamond

Catcher (0) - NONE

First Base (0) - NONE

Second Base (2) - Rawhide/The Fly Chaser

Third Base (4) - Crime Dog/Yo Adrian/The Showboat/Ironman

Shortstop (5) - The Hawk/The Lark/The Wizard/The Mechanical Man/El Mago

Left Field (6) - The Tool Shed/The Duke/El Ambusador/Man of Steel/The Winny/The Werth

Center Field (5) - The Spoke/The Dart/El Nino/Cool Papa/The Belli

Right Field (2) - The Dewey/Sheff

Below are the boosts each archetype gives at GOLD. Diamond will increase the main ones a little bit more.
The below displays boosts in this specific order - Contact/Vision, Power/Arm, Speed/Stealing,

Rawhide - (+38)(+10)(+30)(+20)

The Fly Chaser - (+20)(+10)(+30)(+42)

Crime Dog - (+24)(+36)(+10)(+15)

Yo Adrian - (+15)(+36)(+10)(+25)

The Showboat - (+5)(+36)(+20)(+25)

Ironman - (+15)(+24)(+10)(+42)

The Hawk - (+38)(+20)(+10)(+20)

The Lark - (+20)(+10)(+46)(+30)

The Wizard - (+26)(+10)(+20)(+42)

The Mechanical Man - (+26)(+14)(+10)(+42)

El Mago - (+10)(+24)(+20)(+42)

The Tool Shed - (+38)(+20)(+15)(+10)

The Duke - (+24)(+36)(+20)(+10)

El Ambusador - (+15)(+36)(+30)(+10)

Man of Steel - (+30)(+15)(+49)(+10)

The Winny - (+10)(+24)(+46)(+20)

The Werth - (+10)(+15)(+46)(+32)

The Spoke - (+38)(+15)(+30)(+10)

The Dart - (+38)(+10)(+15)(+26)

El Nino - (+5)(+36)(+30)(+20)

Cool Papa - (+30)(+10)(+46)(+20)

The Belli - (+10)(+18)(+30)(+42)

The Dewey - (+38)(+15)(+10)(+26)

Sheff - (+20)(+26)(+46)(+10)

@themadhatter711 said in SDS did a great job with PXP:

Love how they did this! Last year I was always frustrated during events when you couldn’t use prestigeable cards, but this completely fixes it.

Also pxp encourages lineup diversity. It’s a win all the way around.

It’s definitely the best thing they’ve incorporated. Conquest doesn’t feel like a waste of time since I can just load up the players I wanna parallel.

They also found a nice balance with making it doable, but not super easy either. You can get to level 3 pretty quick but IV and V are longer, makig it feel like a real accomplishment. I’m about 200 points away from V trout.

This game is the most pathetic excuse for an online game. I’d rather play back yard baseball

The worst part is that he’s absolutely terrible online. He gives out free Homeruns on the event.

How ironic.

Played my first game in about a week and it went scripture to how it’s described by others on this forum.

Only runs scored are homers.

Hal pitched a complete game against me of course. Perfect perfect fly ball with Mickey Mantle dies at the track...

I’m genuinely curious for those that play RS as their main mode: HOW?

Do you just get used to the BS, the pitchers duels and Homeruns only?

Now that I have collections done and a lot of the offline stuff done I just want to enjoy my team, but I can’t do RS if it’s like this.

I have a nearly all 99 team, get perfect / perfect or good / good contact and they’re outs.

How do y’all get past this and enjoy it cuz I’m gonba be done w this game before quarantine ends at this rate.

Let me start by saying I know the man power / money put towards created stadium wouldn't have necessarily been reallocated to gameplay.....BUT

IF SDS delayed created stadiums another year and decided to put more effort and $ into gameplay, servers and bugs, would you take that trade? I WOULD

Full disclosure, I'm on PS4 so I don't have stadium creator but honestly I wouldn't have touched it more than once even if I had a PS5.

Ppl were creaming themselves over this thing and the first week and it was fun seeing what the YouTubers made. But who in the blue heII cares about your Jurassic Park when the gameplay only made a slight improvement from last year.

So my main point is IF you could trade in your access to stadium creator for gameplay where "user stick stills DO reign supreme", would you? My answer in 100% yes, I think SC is GOOFY and so unnecessary.

Let's get the gameplay IN BETWEEN THE FOUL LINES polished before we get into gimmicks and dinosaurs in the outfield SDS.

@Onyx_Hokie_2 said in Quitters:

From my perspective, the frequency of mid-game quitting is getting ridiculous. Case in point from a few minutes ago:

Important Note - The game in question was within the current Event

Bottom of the 1st, score tied at 0, 2 outs. I hit a deep solo home run with Mike Trout, and before the ball crosses the wall my opponent quits out of the game. WTAF?!

From the point of view of wanting to do well in the Event, I don't mind the easy win. On the other hand, I didn't join the Event for the glory of accumulating wins in said Event. I joined the Event because I want to play baseball online against other human beings and I tend to expect that there will be fewer instances of cry/pout-quits when the teams are even(ish) by default. Previously, most of the quits I have experienced have been perpetrated by opponents who were overmatched at the time of the quit, either via roster differences or after I've gotten a big lead in the game.

But for Pete's sake... bottom of the 1st, after giving up a single run, with even teams?

I believe that SDS should do at least one of the following, ideally all of them:

• 1st instance of quitting mid-game: 30-minute ban from online play

• 2nd instance of quitting mid-game: 2-hour ban from online play

• 3rd instance of quitting mid-game: 8-hour ban from online play

• 4th instance of quitting mid-game: 24-hour ban from online play

• Any further instances of quitting mid-game: 72-hour ban from online play

• Put quitters into a separate pool of players for online play, an area populated solely by players who have quit mid-game within the past week.

• Label player icons with a badge indicating their percentage of games they've quit.

• In online play, after the teams have been set and shown to the players, but before a single pitch is thrown, give opponents the option to avoid playing someone with a quit percentage over a certain value.

The culture that has developed in online play for The Show - a sad exponent of our culture in general at present - enables the immediate rejection of anything which a certain type of person finds to be disappointing, not to their liking, etc. It's bad for the people whose time is wasted and it's bad for the game overall. Something needs to be done about it, in my opinion.

What do you think?

All the best,
Bryan

This might be the dumbest idea I’ve read on this thread. And I’ve read A lot of dumb [censored]

@KommanderNKeef9 said in Scary Feeling:

Idk about anyone else, but there is something extremely sweaty about having a close lead going into the last inning on All Star. ESPECIALLY when your opponent hasn’t touched the ball all game. Unreal

100%. I need at least a 4 run lead going into the 9th to feel comfortable.

Countless times I've had an opponent not be able to touch anything, then in the 9th its HR derby metal bat time.

Effing RNG cruddy SdSuck

Trying to bring some positivity to the forum lol. I feel like there’s no good place to get legitimate card reviews so let’s start here.

Here’s some of the team collection rewards cards I’ve used and their reviews:

Angels - 95 Frank Tanana

Reminds me of the Hal Newhouser from last year. Relies on a 100Mph fastball and a sweeping curve to get K’s. At this stage of the game he’s been a beast for me and will be especially good against newer players who can’t lay off the sweeping curve.

Against better users I’m not sure how long he’ll hold up as they can just sit fastball and lay off both curveballs. Either way I think it’s very nice to have a lefty with upper 90’s break and velocity in my rotation.

Yankees - 90 Jorge Posada

Best catcher in the game IMO, love the switch hitting and his swing is great. Poor defense so I have 88 42 Series Salvy Perez on my bench. Haven’t used the Piazza but did not like Mike’s swing last year. Anyone who used Posasa last year and liked him surely will again this year.

I finished the whole AL East, but wouldn’t recommend using any of the other team rewards.

AL EAST - 95 Goose Gossage

Beast so far. Can get up to 101mph on fastball and has a slurve which is one of my favorite pitches. They’re saving outlier for his 99 card in assuming.

Please drop the team or division collection rewards you have and their reviews. I’d love to have some insight as incomplete collections !!

@kyles779_psn said in 6th Inning Showdown:

I had high hopes for the Pedro card. But, ive never seen a final boss that easy to pick up on. Perhaps im improving. Though I feel more like his pitches had zero deception. Anyone else?

I beat him w all 20 outs left. They did him dirty!!

@omegaeod_psn said in Daily XP Cap Question?:

There is no indicator until you reach the cap, but it has been raised to 60k XP so you are fine. Won’t hit the cap unless you are grinding over 12 hours

Its double XP so you could easily reach 60K

Yes!!!!!!!

@x2sketchy_xbl said in Day 2 of asking for a team affinity 3 Aaron judge refund so I could get acuna:

Pls refund the Aaron judge so I could get acuna

No one cares.

@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in OP pitching:

Yeah outlier isn’t fun. 102 can by all means be the top speed but it should play like a 99mph ball.

Wouldn’t you rather lost 10-8 than 2-1?

Come on SDS. Let’s make it fun.

Here's how outlier SHOULD work:

Full stamina - perfect input for velocity results in the full 102 and sometimes on not perfect input.

Yellow Stamina - perfect input only results in 102 velocity 75% of the time, and 101-100 other 25%

Red Stamina - Only get 102 50% on perfect inputs.

TL;DR - Outlier should slowly fade away as stamina goes down.

Won a ranked game after hitting a TANK on contact swing with Jackie - no doubter.

Why can't they fix that and the PinPoint Stamina?

@collin_sds_MLBTS @CoachPlushDoll

@lvega127_psn said in Any madden fans came back yet?:

I bought Madden this year for the first time in 5 years. I'm enjoying it. Is it perfect, nope, but its enjoyable. I also play The Show. Its possible to do both and enjoy both. I'll probably also buy NBA 2K in a few weeks (waiting to hear/see about gameplay improvements). Its 100% possible to play multiple games and enjoy them all without being contentious.

I bought madden 19 after an 8 year hiatus. Played for a week and was appalled at the game didn’t improve, it got worse and was so boring.

Wouldn’t even play if I got it for free waste of time !!

SDS stands for sad disconnecting servers

Classic SDS

SDS stands for sad disconnecting servers

Neither, ranked is trash doo doo