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@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

Just north of wherever you are. Palm Coast, between Daytona and St. Augustine

I…..feel bad you’re at Orlando (sh it show)

You’ve got to be exhausted. I want to knife myself even on 95 to 4. Getting there and then actually being there

Disney sucks if you’re not a kid haha

We’re a Disney family. So we enjoy it. But I will never argue with a person who says that they don’t like it because I could totally see that side as well. It does take a sort of not-right-in-the-head mentality.

We actually stopped by the Daytona area on our way here to take our son over to college visit to Embry Riddle. AWESOME university.

Being a teacher helps. Having summers free is a blessing in real life and when it comes to playing MLB the show. Although, I’ve been at Disney since Wednesday and won’t be back to the Lou until Thursday. Time to see if I can grind this innings XP content with one less week.

For free, no pack odds are too low. But yes, I understand the sentiment.

Miniseasons is always going to be better than grinding a conquest. Regardless of miniseason.

I’m fond of the cityscapes (easier) or vintage (I think it has better repeatable rewards).

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

Show me that guy then we’ll talk. And then multiply him. As a matter of fact, summon them all I’d like to hear from them

I have stated multiple times I have opened judge twice and Ohtani. In fact, I have opened nearly every high LS diamond this year. I only ended up having to buy judge to finish because I kept selling the diamonds to complete non LS collections.

I have had INSANE luck this year. But, I’m also smart enough to realize this is luck, and the odds are still just 2%.

Also, we’re still arguing the wrong thing here, and it’s again proving my point: high diamonds and low diamonds are still diamonds. Too many people crab about not getting diamonds but they mean “not getting high diamonds”, which is not a 2% chance. It’s much much smaller.

I also find it so fascinating that when someone brings up the better than expected odds, you all preach “those are outliers!!!”. So are the supposed results you’re getting if we want to play that game.

It may seem like having bad luck isn’t an outlier, but it is in the long run. I don’t care how many people continue to crab on this forum, it’s always a small small small percentage of the player base. So, if what you’re saying is true, you’re the outlier. And the person pulling multiple ohtanis is the outlier on the other side.

Most people are pulling at about 1.5 to 2.5%. But they aren’t the ones who are going to come here and post “hey, I got the expected odds!”.

Yeah, use the park “Neighborhood Park”. Face left handed pitchers (if you care about pitching matchups). It definitely will take a handful of games. But it will happen. Then, the Edmonds unlock goal (8 think it’s like 32 bases?) is SUPER easy.

@LadySwampfox_XBL said:

I don’t know how this game expects me to get 4 XBH with a player who has only a 72 combined power rating. He isn’t getting that ball anywhere with that.

I’m playing on rookie, at Coors, with Kinsler batting first to get the most ABs possible. And so far this mini season I’ve only gotten one XBH.

Anything else I can do to improve my chances?

Is this one of the mini season things? I can’t remember. If so, you need a HR friendly park, and you need to force the correct pitching matchup.

Quality of card vs type of card are not the same thing though. A lot of the complaints people make when they say “we’ve never gotten a diamond” are reallly from people that mean “I’ve never gotten a diamond worth more than 3000 gold”. The odds of pulling a diamond ARE in fact 2%. The odds of pulling Ohtani were something like 1 out of 20000. All of those individual odds are listed too.

As far as pulling the same card out of specialty packs (the other conspiracy everyone likes to get in on), that’s usually because the odds of pulling that card are the highest in a pack where there’s only 15ish cards or so.

I know, I’m frowned on for actually stating this, but there has never been a story about pack odds on this forum that has lead me to believe “hmmm pack odds must be wrong”. Most stories are just hyperbole or from people who didn’t have good middle school math teachers.

Until any of you literally go out and count every pack you’ve opened and get the exact amount of diamonds that you earned, all of this is just people who are mad about their pack luck. The odds are stated, and for everyone of of you that feels they need to make a comment about the odds because they don’t get what they wanted, there’s another person who has had great luck and just doesn’t post about it.

In fact, I think there was somebody in the forums keeping track of all of their packs literally throughout the season and they have opened just about one diamond for every 50 standard packs they’ve opened.

@DoIHearBossMusic_PSN said:

I'm honestly shocked at how many people are not just bored by the staleness at this point, first year since the mid 2000s that I stopped playing often, must be Xbox and Switch newbies

This exact same comment has been made every single year.

The reports of The Show’s demise continue to be exaggerated.

@GoozeFn_PSN Sorry, I’ll add an addendum: if you’re strictly looking at silver to gold, then selling the gold.

Holding on to investments is a whole different thing. In some ways, if you’re willing to ply that game (which is a good one), purchasing high bronze cards that will turn to silvers might be a good investment too.

I assumed the silver to gold exchange route was for those looking to quickly sell their returns.

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

@JDHalfrack_PSN

So then you say to yourself - “oh, I’m supposed to be playing a baseball game not making spreadsheets” then you thump yourself in the head

Baseball is romantic

MLB the Spreadsheet 26

My love for spreadsheets outweighs my love of baseball. And I really love baseball.

I would never say I wouldn’t buy a game called MLB the Spreadsheet…

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@DrBear100_PSN Make sure you do it as efficiently as possible. I used to literally buy 20 of every silver. Start with 3-79 + 1-78. When you run out of 79’s, do 4-78 + 1-77. Then, 6-77. Then either 2-76 + 7-75 or 2-75 + 6-76 until you’re out of both. Those are the best combinations.

Actually, you need to be careful. It really needs to be assessed as cost per value thing. For example Buying 79 rated silvers that are each 160 Stubs is going to get you worse overall value than buying 75 rated silvers that are 60 stubs. Or something like that.

I actually wrote an excel algorithm somewhere a month ago or so when someone first proposed this idea.

If I’m not mistaken, I think I also found that the rate of return wasn’t as good as just buying said silvers and flipping them. For what it’s worth.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

1. CF - 90 Willie McGee
2. 3B - 93 Terry Pendleton
3. RF - 92 Jordan Walker
4. 1B = 94 Matt Carpenter
5. LF - 92 Tyler O'Neill
6. 2B - 88 JJ Wetherholt
7. C - 88 Raniel Rodriquez
8. DH - Stan Musial
9. SS - Ozzie Smith

Bench: 91 Nathan Church, 90 Jim Edmonds, 92 Bryan Torres, 88 Masyn Winn

Rotation: 96 Scherzer, 93 Gibson, 90 JR Richard, 88 Liam Doyle, 90 JR Richard
(Since I play offline I just use Gibson every game)

Bullpen: 93 Jojo Romero, 91 Bruce Sutter, 88 Lee Smith, and some random relievers.

Still would love to have Pujols, Simmons and Berkman

I don’t have tons of stubs (honestly, I should say anymore, just to be open), but man, if I could gift you stubs, I would!

This has been an issue for literal years. SDS either can’t or won’t fix it. I’m not here to discuss which is more likely.

I don’t think he is on Nick Kurtz level, but how quickly did that dude jump from a nobody to a diamond last year?

Offline only, so it probably doesn’t really mean the same, but here’s mine:

C 94 Roy Campanella
1B 99 Albert Pujols
2B 96 Ketel Marte
3B 95 Miguel Cabrera
SS 99 Troy Tulowitzki
LF 95 Juan Soto
CF 92 Carlos Beltran
RF 95 Aaron Judge

Bench
94 Jackie Robinson
92 Ian Happ
91 Chone Figgins
90 Brandon Venezuela

Rotation
99 Felix Hernandez
95 Jacob DeGrom
95 Ubaldo Jimenez
94 Kyle Harrison
93 Max Fried

My bullpen is usually a whole mix of dudes depending on what I’m trying to accomplish.
LS Mason Miller is usually a staple
Vintage Matt Strahm is too

@Nickc22_MLBTS said:

Is it possible to see who spends the most money and they get better odds so they keep spending money? I’ve never spent a dollar on this game since it’s came out and my odds have never been good. I’ve pulled trout once like 5 years ago but never anything good. I just wonder if that’s possible for them or is it all just random and some people have better luck than others?

Could they? Sure. Do they? If so, they better hope no one finds out.

That said, I’ve never spent any more than just the early release money on this game. This year, I’ve pulled two Aaron judges and an Ohtani. And I can guarantee they are not rewarding me for not spending money.

@PAinPA_PSN said:

If you pick off/ caught stealing you get 50-60 xp for the inning for some reason.
Balls in play for outs count xp but caught stealing doesn't for some reason

Good point. Hadn’t thought about that. That hasn’t changed this year either though. So the OP is still exaggerating.

I’m not sure why anyone buys packs with stubs or stubs with real life money. It’s the weirdest thing.