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I made it for the first time this ranked season also. I got lucky and played a guy in the 730s for my WS game (at 896). He quit after I went up 6-0. I decided to play one game in Legend at Ranked Seasons and I was in such a zone that I continued to play well. Game lasted 2 1/2 inning after he quit when I was up 3-0 with no SO. Then I go and play Events on All-Star and I cant hit against commons lol. Crazy how you get used to the faster pitch speeds.

@CookieMonster64_NSW said in Lost to a top player and he put it on YouTube:

I'm pretty sure you are talking about TmarTn2

That sounds about right for the name.

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in Forever Moonshot?:

I noticed on the schedule it says the Forever Event will be Any Hitters vs Common Pitchers. Is this what they did the past few years? I don’t remember it being like that. Good way to P5 hitters I guess.

They should alternate it, and the next week should be any pitcher vs. common hitters, quick counts, 6 innings, and Legend difficulty, at Forbes field. The reward at 30 wins is a combination Takashi/Finest/Signature/Awards/Milestone Bo Jackson.

P.S. Remember over the summer when we thought we might get a Bo Jackson card? Jon and Chris subtly dropping hints? Ah... the good old days.

@BIG_PAPIx34_PSN said in One thing that needs to go:

I played someone tonight that had OVER 1300 RS games played and the first thing they did when they came up to bat in the Top of the 1st was hold R2 and 'bunt dance'. They did it after EVERY pitch. And when they pitched; the side stepped EVERY pitch.

I get stuck with that guy about 2 times a week. I have taken a new motto against people like them. That motto is "if you have time to bunt dance, then you don't need time for me to wait to pitch" so I quick pitch the hell out of them.

Some of them get the message and stop after a couple of innings of this, others are just total d bags and just try to annoy people to quit because they have even less skill than I do and want the cheap win.

@TexasTauper_PSN said in SDS and freezeoffs:

I honestly think the freeze off problem is why (unless you're trying to make WS) wins don't matter this year in RS. Just get your innings and move on. I quit a freeze off last night even though I was winning and at home. Opponent refused to quit so I did so I could just get to the next game. I'm not going to make WS so I'm not concerned about my record. It only irritates me in BR or events where wins do matter. Next year they should make events more like BR so you can still get the rewards without really needing to win. Just complete missions to get points so freeze offs don't hurt so bad.

I get what you’re saying, but I also want to make World Series. I’m not an elite player but I’m decent. Some seasons I’ve admittedly not put much time into Ranked, I play a lot of event games and always complete the BR and other programs, but the closest I’ve been this year is like ~891-893 or something. Like I said having a loss in a game like that really sets me back a few games as now I need to go 2-0 in the next two
Matchups to basically be where I should be.

If a MLB game is in the 7th inning and they have a rain delay which they don’t come out of, the team with the lead gets the W. This should be no different.

There is no reason Peralta should have been back out in the 9th. If Schmidt had a clean inning, maybe it’s a different scenario. I have to give credit to (I think it was JRam), who muscled an inside pitch against the shift. One instance where the shift failed. If IKF were playing in his normal spot, it’s an easy play.

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in Legends of the Dashboard Event:

Already lost 3 HR with Hank Aaron alone tonight, plus a number of others with different hitters.

This is one of the most frustrating things about online play to me. SDS, maybe by next year you can figure out a way for the game to recognize the no doubt HR off the bat so when the soft lil kids dashboard, it will still count. Or like others have said, figure out a way to start punishing these players.

PS- Hank Aaron is legit

There are a lot of people that you can tell are miserable playing online since it’s the only way to grind the program after you do all the moments/exchanges/conquest.

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Extreme Showdown can be done:

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in Extreme Showdown can be done:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Extreme Showdown can be done:

Wait… just to follow up on one point… if I finish conquest and all the moments and Kerry Wood missions, do I really only need to complete the 25K pxp mission three times and then I’ll have Donaldson? Is that math correct?

I’m not on my console right now. I think I had already completed the 25k PXP once and I believe I was at 91 program points and had Cano. So I think you’d have to complete it 4X to complete the whole program but I’m not 100% sure.

That’s still very doable! I haven’t even attempted showdown, so I just assumed I wouldn’t be getting JD until like April or something. This gives me a little more to grind toward! Brett and Donaldson are the best platoon in the game.

I thought it was 5x for the 25k pxp's, which is still doable:

Complete all missions: 30 points
Kerry Woods parallel 5: 30 points
Conquest: 25 points

That's 85. I have finished one 25k repeatable mission, so I think I have 4 left to get Donaldson (one more for Cano).

Someone call me out if my math is wrong...

No offense to anyone but is it bad to leave your PS5 or Xbox Series X on all night sometimes days at a time?

@Mike__Honcho_361 GG on the latest matchup. Sorry about the pause, my wife is not a home and keeps calling me to ask me to do stuff she forgot to do.

@tylerslikewhoa_xbl said in 💯 Dingers:

@texas10pt_psn said in 💯 Dingers:

@tylerslikewhoa_xbl said in 💯 Dingers:

@texas10pt_psn said in 💯 Dingers:

@tylerslikewhoa_xbl said in 💯 Dingers:

@t-rox_09_mlbts said in 💯 Dingers:

@mike__honcho_361 said in 💯 Dingers:

Moonshot Event:

A few games after being denied of his 100th HR of the year by a soft dashboarder, the early year GOAT FOTF Devers has just crushed his 100th HR of the year for our squad.

Just really wanted to give props to this Devers card. Been in my lineup since the day I got him and has just been my absolute best hitter. His HR actually slowed down over the past week so it took me longer to get to 100 than I thought. He was also the first card I got to P5.

513 AB
.433 AVG
1.136 SLG
1.587 OPS
100 HR
43 2B
9 3B
198 RBI
148 R
.495 BA W/RISP

To put it in perspective my next highest HR hit are:

FOTF JAZZ- 45
FOTF BUXTON- 34
LS JUDGE- 34

If you’re not using him, give him a shot.

If those are online numbers that's very impressive

Rookie during Mini Seasons already confirmed

Ok Karen. Thanks for that input.

You're welcome sweetheart.

Oh wow!! I thought you were sweet on Josh?

Not sure who Josh is but he sounds like a great guy.

Just some offline loser

Yea you have ps cheats that have profiles blocked as well hopefully means banned but doubtful

https://mlb22.theshow.com/universal_profiles/THE_SHOW22_BEST

I'm not a game designer.

Baseball though has functionality that is more unique than football, baseball, soccer etc. Those games are dynamic in terms of toons constantly in motion. Those toons have to send and receive location coordinates to and from a server node during game play. Likely why EA and 2K use dedicated servers.

MLB though is HEAVY on user input with the toons in a relatively fixed location until the ball is in play. Once that happens, you are only allowed t move either your runner, or the defender near the ball.

Why am I bothering to hypothesize this? Because that's my theory why baseball is required to be peer to peer for connection. Baseball has so many more interactions between opponents and stats that need to be recorded and reconciled. When you take a shoot, it's only on you to record that stat. When you ground out, the defender needs a fielding attempt logged, batter result, pitcher record added in real time etc.

Because so many peer to peer interactions occur, it's naturally subjected to connection errors and thus a freeze off.

I'm telling you folks that freeze offs are being manipulated mostly by the offender. How? Excessive network traffic by them. What can SDS do about it? Next to nothing unless they start terminating frozen games that can't reconcile data exchange. That is very very very messy to resolve and have non offenders to be happy.

The ultimate solution is to review metadata on the disconnects received for dashboarding and reviewing W/L results with disconnect rituals.

That's messy AF also. Personally, I think it can be done because that data is static and you can query and isolate it. I don't think they have the manpower to do it though.

I am on Series X and it is a terrible experience. The only ballpark that plays that way. A thread on how bad it plays pops up about once a week. It would be great if SDS would just remove it until it can be fixed.

All night long.....

I thought I had experienced everything the Show has to offer but that is one that has most definitely not happened to me yet. I would love to know what was going through your opponents head at the time. The closest I have come to something like this happening was in the Show 20 a guy led off the game with a routine flyboy to center field that I caught not even close to the warning track and all of a sudden the homerun animation starts and to make matters worse they gave him 3 runs for it.

@mjfc_363_psn said in 4 times in 50 mins!:

Cowards are out tonight!

its a virtual stat on a game in january, it not that deep. Its an event get over it.

@mike__honcho_361 said in Kyle Tucker appreciation post:

This Finest Tucker is an absolute UNIT. Early in the year I used his LS in BR. Always loved his swing. This version I used a bunch on my main account and he was doing great for me.

I started this secondary account and I’ve plugged him into the leadoff spot both playing Events and in Ranked. All-Star, HOF it doesn’t matter. That swing plays and he gets tons of P/P contact for me and really does a [censored] good job in RF(speeds not great but he has gotten good animations for me).

I will surely send him into a slump now, but between grinding the Event and trying to get to WS in Ranked(currently 860) he is hitting .395 with a 1.376 OPS, 33 HR, 24 2B, 3 3B over 223 ABs. He’s has several 2-4 hit games for me on HOF recently and a handful of 2 HR games as well.

Give this guy a shot if you haven’t yet.

Kyle "Thuuuka" is nothing but just a simple piece of... heavenly divine greek god of the swing smoothness ball crusher mother effers ...

I’m going to bump every post about freezes. I have nothing else to do because I’m sitting here in a BR freeze off when I am up 3-1 against a guy I was clearly better than. He won’t quit because he’s a [censored].

SDS: we want to hear about your plans for addressing freeze offs.

@Mis_Ter_Bulldops said in Experiment: Zero to 2.2 Mil stubs in 72 hrs:

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in Experiment: Zero to 2.2 Mil stubs in 72 hrs:

I play this game a lot. In fact it’s the only video game I play these days. I enjoy Grinding and grinding away because I like all the challenges and building up my team, prestige game cards, etc. but every now and then I get bored and want a different challenge. With the way stubs are in the game the last couple of months I decided to try something when they dropped that free bundle with the 5th inning choice pack the other night.

I started a brand new account. I got the free bundle pack from the shop. I took Mo and pulled the rare(cheaper) round in the Finest pack and took Acuña. I sold them both and started flipping 5th round bosses like a BOSS. In the past 72 hours, the only gameplay I did on the account was 2 Team affinity conquest maps(BAL/BOS), 1 RIB Showdown(took Baez)and some Moments. I am currently sitting at 2.2 million stubs, I exchanged my way up to the Finest player in TA4 for BAL, BOS and WAS. I have already put together a very competitive squad(not as fully loaded as my main account obviously, but not bad).

My goal right now is to get the team loaded up with players from the East and then attack the East event when it starts up. Pretty nuts how easily you can get stubs right now. I can keep doing buy orders and complete the Mantle collection already.

Can’t wait to be the Bronze 35 player with a full goon squad messing people up in the event lol. 😂

So yea anyone hurting for stubs go flip some MO, Larry and Papi’s and you should be good.

I made 2 mil. Flipping them. But it's seems slow now
Why MO, Larry and papi Specifically? Are they in the better price range for flipping ? Turning 17k into 25k worth it? And keep doing the same 3 players? I was like accumulating stubs then going for higher price gaps like Bauer or Wagner