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This seems incredibly simple, and I don't understand why SDS can't fix this problem that plagues the game online. When a player hits a home run, it's clear that the announcer knows it and the crowd knows it, ergo, the program knows it. So just count the [censored] HR and RBIS and Runs from the MOMENT THE BALL LEAVES THE BAT. Don't wait for runners to cross the plate, and let little, stupid, [censored] players pull the plug and cheat people of their rightfully earned stats. How hard can that possibly be to program?

I was playing a Ranked Season game, grinding out points for the August players to both A) get the Mookie card for the current program and B) grind out the last points I needed for the Extreme Program and Donaldson card.

I'm playing a tight 0-0 pitcher's duel, the kind of game that anyone who likes baseball can appreciate. Finally, in the bottom of the ninth, I have the bases loaded with two outs. He throws a 2-0 fastball down the middle and I crush it for a grand slam for Alex Bregman, who needs the points. And this complete, disrespectful, hateful troll of a person dashboards the game, so I don't get the HR, RBIs, etc. What a pathetic sore loser. Makes Billy Martin seem like a grateful gentleman.

I'm fed up with this happening -- as are a lot of players -- and it's high time SDS fix it. I spend enough time on this game not to have to lose valuable player points and do more work to achieve what's rightfully been earned. Fix it.

So, for the first time ever I own every player card without ever buying any stubs and as a, basically, .500 level player. Well, almost all the cards. I don't, as it turns out, own Matt Harvey or Trevor Bauer -- two players that were suspended in baseball, and, I'm assuming don't have their cards distributed any more in packs. Anyway, I put in Buy orders for both but don't see either of them going through. I guess I'm just going to accept that I won't get those two and declare victory for having gotten all the other ones. Honestly, never imagined being able to do this.

Did not remotely work. Now my game app on the iPhone and the website show me as having zero stubs and zero collected cards. This is a nightmare.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I'll try and throw, say, a changeup low and away, and it suddenly jumps mid-flight and flies over the umpire's head. There's some glitch here. It happens pretty frequently.

Can someone explain to me how and why I seem to be confused by how PCI hitting works. I look at the analytics in the left corner of the screen, and will see that I hit the ball more or less in the center of the circle and right in the middle of the green good zone, and yet the hit was a lazy flyball. Repeatedly. Meanwhile, I'll throw the other team a slider inside about a foot out of the strike zone, and it gets laced for a double down the line. Is this how it's supposed to work? I understand how now and again a "Perfect" hit will be a line drive right at someone (although that seems to happen far too often), but I don't understand how batted balls that seemingly fall within the desired metrics aren't hits, and poor contact outside the strike zone repeatedly fall in for dunkers or seem to find every hole in the infield and go for hits. I'd love it if someone from SDS could chime in here, because I'm really getting sick of it.

As I posted elsewhere, if the announcer knows it's a HR, and the crowd knows it's a HR, then, clearly, the computer knows it's a HR and should be able to count it the MINUTE IT LEAVES THE BAT. Don't give anyone even a chance to quit before it counts. Simple. Also, like DeleteyourTTVBTW's suggestion, too.

In playing Mini-seasons (and I think Conquest, too), I've noticed my fielders are super slow to react. They almost even seem to break in the wrong direction at first. It's driving me crazy, because I'm trying to move them with the controller, and they're just sitting there for a second before finally moving. I keep giving up hits they should be able to catch.

From what I can tell, I have the settings right. I have it on whatever the computer assist to react to the batted ball. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there something I'm not doing right or a setting that could be wrong? Thanks for any help.

I bought two and got one low and one mid player choices with current sale values of around $10-11,000. So, at least in my case, lost about $40,000 in stubs on the deal. Not super happy about it. But that's the roll of the dice factor.

I think they must have changed it after the update. FWIW, I FINALLY managed to complete it by hitting 3 HRs in 3 ABs, after coming maddeningly close over and over. Finally went Brett, Alvarez, Ortiz. I also finally won the Hall of Fame game, so I've completed all the Extreme Moments and the Conquest Map -- two things I really never saw myself capable of doing. But I think it's made me a better player. I mean, I was able to hit HRs off Nolan Ryan on Hall of Fame Level! What?! I NEVER thought I could do that. The one thing I can't see myself doing is the Extreme Showdown. It sounds impossible by most accounts. As it stands, as soon as I get Wood to his final level and finish the 25,000 XP points I'm working on, I'll have gotten Cano and be at 91 points (and get 30,000 pts for the current program). Then, I think, unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'll skip the Showdown and just gradually grind out the 25,000 XP 3 more times to get to 100 pts. and eventually get Donaldson.

It just gets boring that they keep recycling the same players. I know they probably need to make license deals, but it would be fun if we saw some new players in these programs.

If you don't want Pujols or Ortiz to bunt with a man on third, don't play your infield back. That's not a player being toxic. That's a player exploiting your defense.

Totally agree. Sometimes I'll get on a roll and get 4 or 5 wins in a sitting. But more often than not it's getting one win by enduring 10 losses by guys that hit every pitch not in the strike zone for a single and every pitch in the strike zone for a home run. What I basically do now is if it's clear they're going to hit everything I can throw, I just quit quickly (never dashboard, just quit). That way, they can move on, good for them, and I don't have to waste any more time getting crushed and can move on to a more evenly matched opponent. I'll stick it out in Ranked to earn the innings however or in BR to accrue whatever points I can. They'll mercy quit you in Ranked, but not in BR for some reason.

What is the brilliant idea behind starting the counts in Events? I played my first game this year and had no idea what was going on when I struck out on the 2nd pitch, and then I saw the new change. I utterly, totally detest this stupid new change! Why did SDS do it? It' s not remotely baseball. It takes away strategy (like bunting, for example) when you suddenly have 2 strikes before you've even set foot in the box. CHANGE THIS BACK!!!! It's the worst change you've ever made.

I think it must have something to do with joystick control. I'm always checking to see where my cursor was after I swing, and it's insane! I'm always going too low or too high, never where I'm intending it to go. I find it very hard to line up the cursor to the ball, in general.

Agree with everyone -- spot on insights. I loathe events and almost get PTSD when I enter it. The minute I'm down by a couple of runs, I just quit. There's no point wasting my time trying to finish it. It's really not very fun at all. I used to try and get all the new cards, but now I do what some of the posters here said -- just try and get the Flashback and maybe one more. If I try to get to 10 wins, it's usually two-three nights if I'm lucky. Beyond that is just a waste of time. I'd rather play almost any of the other games, online or against the CPU than Events.

Agreed. I've literally opened around 1000 packs so far, minimum, and have not ever gotten the expensive players. I wound up buying most of them, all except Trout. He's the last one I need to complete the Live Series. I've noticed his price has dropped recently, but I'm still annoyed every time I open 20 Packs and wind up with nothing but Bronze players worth nothing. It's a scam.

Completely agree. As well as with SixPackStl, who said they had much better luck the first month the game was out. Virtually every diamond card I pulled was in the first month. Since then, it's been utterly a joke. I'm not sure it's even possible to pull one of the expensive cards anymore. I've probably opened around 1000 packs in the last few months, and have gotten nothing of any major value. It's absurd and super annoying.

Way to go! I detest these players, and there seem to be a lot of them. Whenever I encounter someone who plays decently and nobly, I always appreciate. It's rare that I'm on the winning end of a blowout, but in one game I won 7-0 in Ranked Season, the opposing player didn't do anything weird, didn't throw a tantrum, didn't end the game prematurely. They just played it out like a normal, reasonable person. There's simply too many jerks playing on line to tolerate.

I've won every Showdown I played this year without much problem -- but this one? Yikes! It's brutal. There's a lot of those 1 inning assignments where a double play ball will kill you, or even crushing the ball and it goes right at people. I beat Percieval on my 2nd go around with him, but he's tough. By the time I got to Pedro, I had to score 6 runs with 13 outs. I scored two. The hitting dots on him are very small and his arsenal is extensive. Plus, he hits all the corners on very hard pitches, constantly changing speeds. I might need to find another way to get those 30,000 points. The hitters they offer up aren't all the best, either. I'm rather stunned at the discrepancy in difficulty levels between this showdown and the others. It's significant.

Events can get really frustrating, because you get nothing if you lose a game. In Battle Royale, you can still earn things from playing with the cards or achieving missions that can advance you in the game, even if you lose. In Ranked Seasons, as long as you play the innings, you can get a head. But in Events, it's either Win or Lose, with nothing gained from a Loss. This is why when there's a freeze, no one is willing to quit. What the game should do is award something like 3 points for a win and 1 point for a loss so that both players get something out of the match regardless. This minor change would seem to limit a lot of hard feelings and poor behavior that I encounter when playing Events games.