@CubsFan708 said in Favorite affordable third baseman:

Prestige Chipper hands down

chipper for me, and love switch hitters. Dude rakes

Ha... wasn't exactly the tip I was looking for but thanks

Seriously, what is the point? If you are going to quit, fine, lose gracefully and wait till the HR counts. I would have all my peeps prestiged by now if it wasn't for you fools.

Freakin annoying!!!

The show market vs the stock market is the equivalent of pre-K arithmetic vs advanced calculus.

@Oachs83 said in Getting destroyed since using PS5:

I have yet to win a game and I’m absolutely overmatched. I went from 750 (last game on PS4) to low 600s in a blink of an eye. I have never ever striked out so much in the last three years. On HOF level it’s near impossible to hit. Allstar feels like HOF.

On average on HOF online I’m around 5 strikeouts and 1 or 2 SOs on Allstar. Now I’m closer to 10 on Allstar and my last HOF game was 16!!!! I have no idea what’s going on? I’ve checked my settings and play with a monitor and it’s getting to the point it’s downright unplayable for me.

On Allstar I use to think the pitches were so slow and now they’re at HOF speed for me. Anyone else experienced this? I’m usually an upper 800 and will make WS if I put in the effort type player. Now 600 ranked guys are mopping the floor with me.

I'm in the same boat, but still have my old ps4. Made Championship series for the first time last RS, and now sitting in the 500's. Funny thing is I'm 8-2 in the HOF event and all games are like 1-0 / 3-2 / etc. NO ONE can hit in that event. I think they have done something with the sliders across the board.

Oh and I got destroyed by a 600 player last night. The whole time I'm saying this person has to be in the high 700's only to find out he was barely 600. So either I just suck all of a sudden or their is a fresh crop of highly skilled players.

It does bring comfort to know I'm not the only one though!

At least SDS got this right.

@MrGamebred said in Market question:

Curious what you guys think is going to happen in the coming week or two with POTM and TA4 coming, for the market.

Are we thinking crash? Or are we thinking it continuously rises with the speculation of another collection/insane amount of stubs in circulation?

Stub sale coming soon possibly too? Can’t remember when they ran the last one in the past.

I’ve sold off some cards, so knowing my luck we can expect everything to go way up lol.

Stub sales always inflate the market. So good time to sell if one is coming. TA4 will spike the market substantially and especially if there is a stub sale at the same time, which would make sense for SDS to capitalize as much as possible. I'm loading up on cheap diamonds 88 or higher and less than 5500. You can always quick sell for 5k to hedge risk. Same thing with golds, especially 84's, silvers etc.... Been stockpiling the hell out of silvers, mainly to complete my own TA4's. You can do some simply math and buy 79's for less than 500, it takes 10 79's in the exchange so roughly 5k to get 10 points to complete. I'd stock pile now, because once TA4 comes out it will be much more expensive.

I love Kershaw. Key to using him correctly is his slider.

@ikarus92_ said in Why?:

This is my first year playing this game. Why do I get nerfed some games and my perfect pitches get sucked down the middle or off the plate? Or I straight up line up a ball and it dies at or before the warning track? Why is the script like score 3 runs in the 1st and then all the sudden balls are coming in a million miles an hour? Like its forcing me to walk players or killing my ability to hit hr's with 125 pwr? Is this dda, rng? It's my first year playing, I have two accounts in the 800's, but I hit this wall where it's like its throttling me or a governor turned on. Maybe 1st and last year.

Young grasshopper, you are not a Jedi yet.

I get it, its HOF but feels more like legend. Im 3-0 and all 3 were 1-0 games. My perf/perf are probably around .300 and good/good forget about it. I guess its good for prestiging pitchers.

@pats1124_psn said in next roster update?:

Tomorrow at 3PM

thx

Don't see anything on the schedule, but it should be tomorrow. Anyone know when the next one is?

found in settings where you can change communication from bluetooth to usb and fixed issue in case anyone else runs into this.

Think it's my ps5 controller. Having issues just navigating the system. It's only 3 months old. Anyone have any issues with their ps5 contoller?

I've been experience a significant lag between my controller and the input on the screen in moments for the last hour or so. Have fiber speed, bad a$$ monitor and ps5 so shouldn't be my setup. Curious if anyone else is experiencing this as well or just me?

@unrendering_psn said in Ranked seasons pci and difficulty:

He is pressing contact swing button instead of normal. It’s not a bug, just your opponent using contact swing on HOF for the bigger PCI.

ahhh, that makes sense. I was making him look silly

I haven't experienced any of this but also have the uber set up, ps5 / monitor / fiber internet. I will say that after about my 6th beer I can't hit nada. Definitely not a party game. I've definitely had my good and bad days. Before I go to ranked I'll play the current lame event to see how my timing is. If it's off, I'll shoot over custom practice and get my timing down on HOF against Nolan and his high heat and sinkers vs Frank and his ridiculous batter's box.

@dahbeers_psn said in First 12 win br run:

Warning: Brag post.
I have had 11 win runs 3 times this year and finally got my first 12 win with bellinger as the reward. Lost the flawless on a pretty unlucky game at 10-0, but the pack gods made up for it. I pulled Gerrit Cole after my 12 win out of a ballin pack I earned in the br program

Congrats! I've made it to 10 and 12 wins total, but not the uber special flawless... well done!

So I believe it has switched last year where the higher difficulty takes precedent. However, I've noticed in my last couple of matches I have been the lower ranked player in the 600's so allstar difficulty and my opponent in the 700's so HOF. Only thing is, my PCI looks very small, so HOF and my opponents PCI looks bigger so allstar. Is this a bug or something or WTF?

@ny_giants4_life said in Ranked seasons difficulty bug?:

@ninetimes9_psn said in Ranked seasons difficulty bug?:

I don't think that's true. Handbook says 'when playing against an opponent who is set to a different difficulty, the game will default to All Star difficulty' I will say I got here because I was wondering the same thing. I face a parallel 3 deGrom who was also playing up...got no hit...and wondered if it was on Hall of Fame difficulty. Guess it wasn't and my ego has to just accept that lol

pretty sure the handbook isn't up to date bc in a stream before launch they said the highest rated player will dictate difficulty.

Where is the handbook? Can't find it