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Agreed here big time - the last name is helpful, but not nearly enough when some cards have 4-5 different versions

https://the-show-zone.com/

Now available on the-show-zone.com/affinity-dashboard, the Affinity Dashboard organizes all player rewards for each Team Affinity program, provides you with the True Overall rating of each individual player, and is sorted by a weighted average rating of that program (more weight put on higher overall players). In addition, click the ‘Exchange Options’ button to open the Team Affinity Exchanges page automatically filtered and sorted for the best available exchange options for that team’s program. Once there, you can easily filter by Rarity (if you only want to exchange silvers, for example) or even by card overall by typing the overall into the Card field. Also, click the The Show Nation button on the right to take you directly to that cards page so you can start inputting orders right away. And as always, pricing updates every 5 minutes and the tables refresh themselves, so you are always seeing the best exchange options.

I’ll be adding the Stage 3 cards once they’re all available and adjusting the weighted averages on the dashboard, so keep an eye out for those to start appearing soon.

Couple of pretty cool updates for the-show-zone.com I wanted to inform everyone of:

Player/Card Comparison Pages

• Hitters
  I filtered the main table down to just hitters and removed all pitching attributes, so you can quickly be able to compare and contrast different hitters.
  Also, there is a spider web chart that appears at the top that compares all of the shown hitters and their respective CvL, CvR, PvL, PvR, and Vision attributes. Note these diagrams look 1000x better on desktop/tablet than on mobile.

• Pitchers
  Same thing as the Hitters page, but for pitchers...
  The spider web chart at the top compares all of the shown pitchers and their respective per-9 attributes.
  Note - I do realize there is currently a filtering issue with the pitcher positions. It's completely random and driving me crazy, but I'll find a way to resolve it in time.

• Similarity Scores
  The perfect page for you bargain-hunters out there! I created a massive matrix that compares each card to one another from an attributes perspective and this table illustrates the Top 5 most similar cards to one another. I used to do this for myself before I had this website to find the cheaper options for cards that I didn't want to spend or lock-in a lot of stubs for.
  The smaller the number, the better. I've found if it's less than 40 or so, the cards are pretty similar. If you find some down close to 10 or so, they're almost identical. Right now with not having a ton of the elite cards released, some of the higher-level cards might not have a good comparison (especially within their own position group) but that will change as more cards are added to the game.
  One of the more interesting finds from this page for me so far is how similar the 95 AS Willie McCovey from the XP Reward Path is to the Yankees collection Giambi.

Collections

• Live Series Collection
  I added the reward for each of the collections to the right of the costs, so you can now see exactly who you would be getting for each collection.

• Prospects Collection
  Knowing that Prospects Set 3 and a new collection reward is coming tomorrow, they are probably correlated, so I established this page now. I'll be updating tomorrow once the new packs and rewards are released.

@raesONE that's a great call - I'll see what I can do from a segmentation perspective. Perhaps developing similarity scores by position and handedness...

As of this morning, some exciting new things have been added and adjusted to the-show-zone.com!

Players Page

• Non-market cards are now added to the site, include all attributes and individual pitches with speed, break, and control ratings.
• All data has now been scraped, so Secondary Positions, Jersey #s, Weights, Heights, Ages, and Hometowns are all now available. Some of the data points you may need to make visible by selecting the ‘Columns’ button on the top of the table.
• New for this season is a “True Overall” rating. Utilizing a linear regression analysis on all players in the database, I created a formula for each position that gives a rough ballpark of how each positions overall rating is calculated. Then, plugged in all player ratings and blew the cap off the maximum 99 overall to provide a “True” player overall rating. This should help easily identify the truly elite from an attributes perspective and become very helpful when deciding between two players.
• I’m in the process of adding Quirks and I hope to use the new Outlier quirk to actually formulate true pitch speeds knowing that player has that Quirk.

Flipping Page

• I’ve now added the Average Sales per Minute for each card that data was available, which then drives a Profit per Minute column. I’ll be updating these sale volumes weekly when I update the player pool!
• I also updated the chart at the top of the page to now plot Profit vs. Profit per Minute, with the bubbles changing more green as the Profit Percentage goes up.

Coming soon - I'm working to establish a 'Card Similarity' rating, which basically tells you which other Diamond Dynasty card is most similar to that one. It's really helpful when trying to find the most similar card to something you're struggling to unlock, like a 12-0 BR reward. For example, the most similar player to the 91 BO Andrew Miller is 88 PS Cody Allen and 88 LS Josh Hader. From a pitch selection standpoint they may be different, but from a ratings perspective they're very close.

A lot of you probably remember and utilized the site during the later half of MLB the Show 19, but for those of you that aren’t aware and are interested in the updates for this season… the-show-zone.com is a site dedicated to providing an easy to use, filterable, exportable, and always live database of MLB the Show 20 Diamond Dynasty cards/players.

Note for this season, SDS’s current APIs seem to be restricted to only non-collection players. In other words: Future of the Franchise players, Live Series collection rewards, and several other players are not available at the moment. Of course, I’ll update in the future manually, but for now it will be for the most part market-eligible players only.

The site contains metadata and attributes each card, including difficult to find individual pitches with speed, break, and control ratings. In addition, there are dedicated pages with live calculations of current collection costs, best player exchange options, and best current flipping options. Here is a breakdown of each of the site pages, which change and adjust throughout the year as player attributes, pricing, and Diamond Dynasty content adjusts:

Home Page (Players)

• The most all-encompassing database of all player/card information available, including every piece of metadata available on each player and hyperlinks directly to their pages on theshownation.com.
• A few quick tips on how to use the database and tables:
• Want to find the best possible 2B for your budget? Set a maximum price in the Buy Now or Sell Now columns, then filter the Position column by “2B”.
• Want to find all pitchers with a sinker? Type “sinker” in the search bar.
• In the works: Secondary Positions & Quirks

Collections – Live Series and More in the Future

• Current and historical costs of key collections in Diamond Dynasty.
• The Live Series page has breakdowns by team, division, league, and all MLB to provide you with the best insight into the cost of each portion of the collection.
• The Monthly Flashbacks collections will be added following the release of each set, along with additional collections as needed.

Exchanges – Team Affinity & Tier to Tier

• Provides a list of the best rival player exchange options, including a hyperlink directly to their pages on theshownation.com.
• Provides a total estimated cost of Team Affinity exchanges if exchanging each player for the entire affinity exchange (250,000 exchange points)
• And most importantly, gives you an easy option of filtering by which Team Affinity team you are trying to complete for a full list of exchangeable players. Looking to complete the Rangers Team Affinity, just type “Rangers” into the Rival Of column.
• In the works: best Tier to Tier exchange options, which will provide a list of the best player exchange options for the Common to Bronze, Bronze to Silver, or Silver to Gold exchanges.

Flipping

• The best current player flipping options available based on Profit and Profit Percentage.
• In the works: buy/sell volumes, correlating to potential profit per hour if flipping that player.

More will be added throughout the year as things are released and I’m able to make updates. If anyone has any feedback, issues, questions, or even ideas to improve the site in some areas, feel free to send me a message here or at ccott235@the-show-zone.com.