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Yep. I've said it before it's been a sloppy year for SDS content wise. Just because the cards are good & the content is free doesn't mean it comes without flaws or criticism

There is no reason whatsoever, for Asa Lacy, to have a higher H/9 than Maddux, Pedro, milestone Scherzer, Seaver, among others..... There's no way around it, it's downright stupid. Takes 0 brainpower to understand that your playerbase is obsessed with H/9, so you don't do a disservice to these all-time greats by making their H/9 worse than players they should be considerably better than

They should own up to this mistake & buff some of the TA4 cards. They won't nerf the no hitter cards since they're on the open market, and could tank their value, screwing people over in the process

No 99 Pedro or Maddux should ever come with an H/9 lower than 110

That would be SDCS

Has no business being a collection reward. BR reward, WS reward, sure. Even a late inning program boss. But they dropped the ball here. Totally passing
on this seeing how you can do these big collections without having every prior collection reward. At least up to this point that's been the case

Bit of a sloppy year for SDS when it comes to content. It's still decent overall, but, just sloppy. It's like they have no roadmap planned out, just keep picking names out of a hat while saying 'F it, as long as we juice the cards, they'll eat it up'

Don't get me involved in this. People who try their hardest to convince people that Jeter was some average scrub, are the most pathetic, clueless fans in Baseball. To think otherwise, means you are Wrong. That's all that there is to it

Should be
LF: Ruth
CF: Mantle
RF: Judge
1B: Gehrig
2B: Soriano
SS: CAP Jeter
3B: Mattingly
C : Posada

Bench: Giambi, Sheffield, Sanchez, LeMahieu, Reggie. (96 Stanton or Damon, also Boggs or Ricky Henderson if you prefer)

Bullpen: Mo, Goose, Chapman, Betances, Britton, TN Chad Green, maybe diamond O'Day, then filler.
Edit: there's also 98 Andrew Miller, Prime David Robertson, & PS Tommy Kahnle

Rotation: 99 Finest Cole (who I'm anticipating to return), 93 Whitey, 97 Leiter, Kluber, & 93 El Duque. 95 Luis Gil as an HM. I include Leiter since he began his career in Pinstripes (came up through the farm), finished his career as a Yank, as well as all those years as a Met, very much a NY baseball figure, so screw it

Forgot about Ron Guidry too. He had a 99 card in 19, maybe if they brought that back

Dude me. I've had the game for 8-9 days. I completed the NL West a few days ago, then yesterday I finished the NL with 280k left over. Now today, I'm already back up to 778k. Made a killing yesterday. Only $$ spent on this game was buying the deluxe edtion

Waiting for the next market crash to have Trout/Chipper/Ortiz join the squad

I've thrown 9 inn perfect games online before. It only happens against people who are Awful..... There isn't much to be proud of, I can tell you that much

It's worth it. For years (going back to like 2008-9) I played on a 22 inch flat screen with Game Mode on. Was a great TV that had great response time. I've always been good at FPS's & I believe for many years this TV was giving me an edge in that regard. I also eventually got a 60' TV, but even with game mode on, my 22' was significantly better in response time. So for years, I was stubborn, thinking my 22' was already so good, that I don't need a monitor

Then I got 1ms response time monitor like 5 months ago. It's a noticeable difference. It's just better, clearly. It's not HUGE, but the difference is there. If you play games where response time matters, just get one. There's no reason not to. You can get a good monitor for 150$ or less

Definitely save stubs & flip / buy players off the market. Put all your stubs towards the most expensive players first, according to whichever League you'd prefer to finish first. If you're totally committed to the LS you might as well finish the league that's easiest for you to finish. Probably the AL since you have Trout. Might as well get your hands on Ortiz, Goose, Posada, Tanana ect & start paralleling. I personally did the NL first because I knew Finley, Soriano, Banks & Gagne are cards I'll use for a long time. Either way, getting to that 'halfway' point & getting some good cards helps keep you motivated

Sell pretty much every single duplicate card you have, get all the stubs sitting around in your collection. Don't buy packs. Only open free packs. The free packs will help you fill the holes in collections while you're putting together the stubs needed for the Diamonds. The expensive diamonds will either remain or get more expensive over time. The cheaper diamonds will slowly get cheaper (barring any attribute upgrades). So it comes down to if you want to do A.) 1 league first, or B.) both at the same time. Always get the expensive cards first unless you have enough stubs that it doesn't really matter. Especially with a stub sale looming

Regardless of A or B, try to buy ALL the cards through sale orders. Save as many stubs as you can while completing. There's no rush and the sales go through quickly. Especially if you grind on the day of Content drops, when the market crashes a bit & moves really quickly.

Don't ever leave yourself broke though. Always trying to have at least 100k around to be aggressive on the market, to build yourself back up

Definitely Lee, followed by Oswalt & that Sanchez card. Can't wait to parallel Sanchez. Picked up Bichette, gonna see how his bat plays. He was super clutch off the bench for me back in 17. That's probably where he'll end back up

Also Thome is a beast so far while grinding showdowns. Haven't grabbed his card yet but [censored] that's an awesome card to get for free

Depends on how many stubs you have, and how many hours you spend flipping. 150-250k a day is doable if you have 350k+ that can be used towards flipping at any given time

On Big content days, 400-600k is doable too. I've done that twice. It'll take a few days to sell everything off, & to wait for prices on cards to return to normal, to maximize resale value. But you need a lot of stubs to begin with. And roughly at least 3-5 hours of determined flipping on that day, both quick flipping some of the new cards that were dropped (since they move very quickly), as well as stashing an assortment of other cards that turn into 7-12k flips if you wait 1-4 days for their prices to restabilize

Anybody with 150k+ stubs can be making 50k a day with a little bit of effort. It's not hard

Somebody's gotta remind me to be one of these guys who place like a billion 1-2k buy orders on golds that end up going diamond

I don't do the investing thing that much on LS cards, but a sh*t ton of those orders end up going through, even after those cards go up a tier. Seems like super easy stubs

I dumped a million stubs onto these tanked card prices. Safe ones too, like Cespedes, Griffey, Justice, Dibble, also like 7 Dominguez cards at 33-29k. A couple Lee Smith's at 27k. Bout to make some bank

I don't mind them releasing great free cards, but this was undoubtedly done too early. This feels like the Finest series cards from 19, literally handing out God level cards for all the great/likable/marketable players on each team. But that was done at like the 10th or 11th inning program that year. Towards the end of the cycle

Content this good should've came at around the 6th-7th inning at the earliest. Everything that came before this feels boring or obsolete now. And what comes after this? Is every single new card supposed to be a 5 tool stud? Idk, SDS always delivers on the content but I feel they took it too far with TA3 & these HRD cards. The HRD cards should all have worse contact across the board.

And 125 ratings shouldn't be getting handed out like candy. All future content is going to require hitting stats like this for people to get excited. But when that happens it's just like "well I already have cards that hit like this". Just makes things feel a little redundant. And makes the anticipation for future content less exciting. Which shouldn't be happing this early in the year

Yeah I always do the Rockies. I like how they throw a little bit of heat compared to the O's

In 19 I ran Giambi at 1B, Frank off the bench. Whenever someone would bring in a lefty for Giambi, I'd pinch hit Frank. Even in early innings (3-5) if I felt the moment was big enough

Frank would make them pay. Wayyy more often than not. It's a great way to get a lot of positive AB's with him, and even log a lot of innings with him overall

@brainfreeze442 said in Bullpen:

@decimation92_psn said in Bullpen:

D. Williams/ gold Betances

Just curious. why the gold Betances and not the Prime?

Prime card is just fastball/slurve, with 68 break 70 control on his 2-seam. Pretty underwhelming. His gold has the same H/9, with 99 break on his Slurve/Slider/& Knucklecurve. All 3. So if I'm gonna use a Betances card this year, it'll have to be the gold. Unless he gets a 99, which he totally deserves, but probably isn't getting

@killerpresence4 said in Bullpen:

@decimation92_psn said in Bullpen:

@killerpresence4 said in Bullpen:

@decimation92_psn said in Bullpen:

@brainfreeze442 said in Bullpen:

@decimation92_psn said in Bullpen:

D. Williams/ gold Betances

Just curious. why the gold Betances and not the Prime?

Prime card is just fastball/slurve, with 68 break 70 control on his 2-seam. Pretty underwhelming. His gold has the same H/9, with 99 break on his Slurve/Slider/& Knucklecurve. All 3. So if I'm gonna use a Betances card this year, it'll have to be the gold. Unless he gets a 99, which he totally deserves, but probably isn't getting

Break doesn’t mean much to a good hitter in this game. His gold has a very hittable fastball and the fastball on his prime I’m pretty sure has outlier. This years game is all about fastball velocities and even a 97-98 mph fastball is hittable without that outlier quirk. In fact you’re doing most of us a favor if you’re using big breaking curves and sliders with pitchers who have outlier fastballs. Maybe your too hung up on those attributes.

I'm not hung up on anything. I'm using a gold card over a diamond first of all. Don't even get me started about how pitches in this game have no break, pitches are the least deceptive they've ever been (unless it was already like this in 20). It's one of the biggest reasons this game sucks. It's why outlier / sinker cutter as a meta is the strictest it's ever been. I just wanted to answer the guy above. That gold Betances sits on 99 & regularly touches 100. He's easily the better of 2 of you feel like using his card in a pinch. The prime doesn't have outlier

Never mind you’ve played a grand total of 32 online games. Your argument is null and void. I can make a common pitcher look good against the CPU. When you post in a thread it might help to point out that your experiences are based on offline play!!! Where your break attributes actually matter.

I've played thousands of online games of The Show over the years, online on this game blows, I can play however much of whatever I feel like. You're just some complete loser douche who came looking for an argument, no one ever said that Betances card was goated, just that I'm using it over his prime. The gold card touches 100. You're a [censored]. Breaking balls are easy to hit period, non-outlier fastballs are easily hit by anyone who's decent, you're not educating anyone about anything, sit your little b*tchass down, seems like all you want to do is nag at people. Like dude, understand this, nobody gives a [censored] about you, or anything you have say