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It's crazy that the game encourages you to make bad baseball decisions to get points

If you want deep control in franchise, check out Out of the Park Baseball. Not great on graphics, but best baseball management simulator out there.

It's similar to TA or WBC points. You earn them to get the perk and equipment packs and to level up your ballplayer. The challenge ones are in addition to the ones you get for stat rewards.

Look at your ball player and scroll down to Skill Set under Playstyle, the select See Tasks and Rewards

Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. That's Big Breakfast getting into your head.

Unfortunately, this is what lack of competition looks like. They have no reason to do better, because you have no alternative.

OP, funny post. Took me a minute to realize it wasn't normal complaining!

@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Scripted outcomes:

@arvcpa_psn said in Scripted outcomes:

So, I'm playing as the Red Sox against the Astros. I'm ahead 2-1 going into the 8th, and Altuve hits a home run to tie it, then they score 7 against me in the 9th. Totally scripted.

Then I decide to play as the Braves against the Dodgers. I'm ahead 5-2 going into the bottom of the 8th, I throw a pitch 12 inches above the strike zone, and Bellinger (he of a .165 regular season average) hits a 3-run bomb to tie it. They go on to beat me 6-5.

C'mon SDS. Totally scripted. I'm tired of this.

Belli is really good at hitting bombs on fastballs that are on the upper third or above the strike zone. Throw inside.

Not really. From this MLB article:

"Just watch where Bellinger has to reach to get to the pitch, which sizzled in above the strike zone. According to Statcast, Jackson’s fastball was 4.12 feet high. The only time Bellinger had homered off a higher pitch was in his 11th MLB game, on May 6, 2017, at San Diego (4.17 feet). Since then, Bellinger has clubbed 136 home runs, including the postseason, and none came off a pitch that was within five inches of this one in terms of height.
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What makes Bellinger’s clutch big fly all the more notable is that it came against a 95.6 mph four-seamer from Jackson. Bellinger had a tough regular season in a lot of ways, but one of his biggest issues was dealing with high velocity. Among 252 hitters who had at least 50 plate appearances end on 95-plus mph heat, Bellinger was tied for the ninth-lowest batting average at .143 (8-for-56), and he slugged just .250 with one homer and 27 strikeouts."

Check out the entire article...good read!

I pulled the data for 22. I opened 2,420 The Show packs. I got 82 diamonds. 5 pairs of those have the same timestamp, so they could have been in the same pack. Or not, I could have opened 2 packs within the same minute. Either way, it doesn't make a big difference and I'm not going to try to figure it out, so let's use 82.

That's 3.2% of packs had a diamond. Guess I was lucky last year. That's 34 more diamonds than expected.

Those 2,420 packs gave me 9,680 player cards. The rarity breakdown by card:
0.85% Diamond
2.65% Gold
7.35% Silver
36.21% Bronze
53.30% Common

I think I see why they don't seem very rewarding.

For BIAH packs, I opened 475 packs, pulling 88 diamonds. Again, there may be some double diamond packs here, but that's about 18.5% of packs had a diamond. I had 111 packs of BooC that contained 67 diamonds, about 60%. I did get Trout out of one of those, but not until January when he wasn't worth nearly as much.

Well, those are the numbers. A lot of packs, but still a small number compared to all the packs opened.

I was going to post this in the recent pack luck thread, but that one seems to have gone off the rails. So, here's a new one (probably some result, tho).

Anyway, I got the data from open pack history of my account page. I've opened 330 The Show packs (none bought) and have pulled 12 diamond items, 5 of which were players (Hader, Vlad, Helsley, Tucker, and Kershaw). All diamonds from different packs.

3.6% of packs have had diamond items. But, I think the odds are just for players, not sure. In that case, 1.5% of packs have contained a diamond player. That's under the 2% stated odds, but it's a small sample size. I guess I've been a little unlucky.

For biah packs, I've opened 57, 11 had diamonds, 1 of those had 2 diamonds. So, 19.3% packs contained at least 1 diamond. I'm not sure what the odds are for these packs, but that's a lot better than The Show packs.

Anyway, I wish more people would get the actual data. If we had more data, I'm sure we'd see rates in line with stated odds.

Last twitch drop pack......OHTANI!!!!!!

But out of 44 show packs, that was the only diamond

Did you change pitchers mid inning? No inning for you!!

50th anniversary of 715 abs NOTHING!?!?!!

WOW...just wow

This stuff is SO easy to fix. Just put the R2 info on the screen every pitch and take it off then the windup starts, just like the strike zone.

Want to fix bunt dancing? Significantly nerf hitter's ratings for the next pitch after two quick bunt taps. There is absolutely no reason to do it. You either show bunt because you're moving the runners over or you drop a bunt last second to surprise the fielders. I've never seen any baseball player bunt dance. It's not a baseball thing.

It's pretty easy...If you show bunt and take it back 3* times in an at-bat, ratings get halved*. This is NOT a hard computer science problem.

*Insert your preferred numbers here.

I saw this tonight, too. He looks like the Penguin. I'll try and get a screenshot tomorrow. Quite funny!

@MarinerMatt01_PSN said in Ambidextrous Pitcher!:

The Pat Venditte Rule. The hitter selects a side first, then the pitcher chooses their side. I don’t know how it’s determined in The Show, but it seems To Always be same side pitching

That's backwards. Pitcher must declare first.

The "player" has his console hooked up to his computer. The computer is analyzing the pitch and swinging or not. The controller is on the ground. The computer hits the home run. The "player" is just watching.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in MOGA:

Change event to be the following:
Scale all the rewards by 2 (so instead of 15 wins its 30 stars)
Give 1 star for complete game loss
Give 2 star for win
Give 3 star for come from behind win

I would love this. I really tried to play an event once. It's really not fun losing a lot. I hung in there and got to 10 wins, but my record was like 10-33. It just wasn't fun and I've not tried it again.

Something like this at least rewards my time and keeps me playing the game.