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Pitchers H and K/9 splits v. L and R

How do we get Neshek? Still at work.

Will these cards be sellable? I will do the conquest because I always do the non-extreme conquest but I just want to buy Bert Blyleven.

@Tankdriver499 said in Bold takes:

Yeah Cobb is hitting .568 with over 12 hrs in the past week and a half I've had him. Pleasantly surprised. I moved him to left so I could try Walker, but Musial might sub back in.

Side note: There are too many good outfielders to play with. For the longest time I was completely happy with the Betts LS, J.D. Martinez awards and Acuna L.S. as my outfield. They were all over 60 home runs. Then once I grinded out Mantle I felt like I had to give him a try.

It's kind of why I think there is too much content out there....only so many spots and innings you can play. I'd be perfectly fine with 2 new players a week. Ex topps now, Moment and inning program on different weeks.

About too much content: I will say that no two teams I face in ranked have even remotely the same lineup.

How on earth are you not swinging at a 3-0 pitch on a hitting mission?

I hope you guys have fun with this. I have less than zero percent interest in doing this program, and I am grateful for SDS making the rewards players I don't want.

@cavalier_0013 said in Dashboarding - viable solution?:

Dashboarding - here we go again. Discussed ad nauseum, but hey, it's a slow Tuesday at work.

I was thinking about how to "prevent" dashboarding or reduce how many times it happens.

The solution is quite simple (for me anyways) but may be controversial to many others. I propose a 2 step solution that looks something like this.....

1. The person who dashboards cannot get back into playing an online game (be it event, BR or RS) until point 2 is completed, and that is

2. The team of the person who dashboarded becomes controlled by the CPU one difficulty lower than the game was being played....so HoF becomes All-Star, All-Star becomes veteran and continues until the end OR the player who is left accepts the "forfeit" in the QUIT menu.

This would really slow down the dashboarders for many reasons. First, they are locked out and if they do it in the 1st or 2nd inning and they play a guy who rakes, it could be a nice 30 - 45 minute timeout for them. Second, and the most important part, their goal of preventing you from getting your grinding stats for prestige (lets face it, dashboarding only affects your prestiging stats) not only is defeated, but you may end up giving your opponent WAY more stats than he would have gotten had you simply let that HR land and then quit the game.

Now, there is a bad side. The worst I can see if a legit lost of connexion issue. People who get a freak power issue that causes a flash and they lose connexion, someone who loses their internet connexion, they would be negatively affected. I don't know about everyone else, but all the times someone has dashboarded against me has been during a HR or a hit.

There are other negative sides to such a solution, and those involed one party cheating to force a disconnect. There are multiple methods which won't be mentionned here but most people know what they are.

I dunno, I feel like there should be a penalty to dashboarding other than taking a L and there should be compensation to the person who was dashboarded on, but I don't know if my solution idea would even be a good one.

Thoughts?

If we're going to have SDS code a bunch of extra stuff into the game can they start with fixing baserunning first?

@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Sig Series Greg Maddux:

Boy am I glad I locked in this card.

0-10 with a 19.74 era in 10 Event games.

Well worth the 90K.

Don't sweat it. You're trying for strikeouts to prestige him, so you're pitching different than RS.

Yeah, I got two 10-packs and a Ducks pack at various times while finishing up the Walter Johnson Prestige Event and had zero idea where it was from.

Thanks for the info guys.

Changeup.

It gets a little too high in the zone and it gets murdered. Seems like once every RS game too.

@The_DoctorsWife said in Critique My Lineup:

So I just completed the Live Series collection in MLB 19, and got Rogers Hornsby and Willie Mays. Added them to my (already fairly stacked) lineup, but given that I have a lot of talent here, I'd like to hear your thoughts about my lineup. Note that all the below cards (except otherwise noted) are part of the Signature Series. I'm open to suggestions on any changes I should make!

1. LF Rickey Henderson
2. CF Willie Mays
3. RF Cody Bellinger*
4. 2B Rogers Hornsby
5. 1B Albert Pujols
6. C Johnny Bench
7. 3B Brooks Robinson
8. SS Barry Larkin
9. Pitcher

Bench: 3B Miguel Cabrera, CF Duke Snider, 2B Ryne Sandberg, C Ivan Rodriguez, SS Fernando Tatis Jr.*

Rotation: Tom Seaver, Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, Christy Mathewson, Nolan Ryan

Bullpen: 92 PS Patrick Corbin, 89 PS Blake Snell, 89 PS Stephen Strasburg, MA 86 Brandon Workman, 96 Trevor Hoffman, 95 Wade Davis, and 99 Kirby Yates.*

*Finest player

Lots of 99's. If your lineup leaned any further to the right it would fall down.

@Original_Quad said in Walter Johnson will be a boss:

@ebbets1957 said in Walter Johnson will be a boss:

I think it's Bert Blyleven.

Blyleven’s motion brings his hands way above his head, and he wouldn’t be wearing the senators pinstripes.

Similar pinstripes to the 1987 Twins too. Blyleven was their #2 starter that year behind Frank Viola.

@Raider52Morrison said in 7th inning bosses revealed:

terrible boss. Who is gonna pick him?

I am totally taking Walter Johnson. One of my fave all-time pitchers. He's a Twin for the purposes of this game (still waiting on Blyleven). Blazing fastball with effective change, and his windup pisses people off.

Matched up with a Bronze 35, and I hate getting matched up with a bronze because I don't know if they're a noob or a catfishing [censored].

Finally got out of own way not swinging at everything and finally break through on a 2-run double in the 6th. 3-0 lead into the 7th. Kerry Wood pitching a no-hitter (only baserunner was a HBP on Vida Blue when not paying attention when wife starts conversation) when opponent requests a friendly quit. Not a moron but thanks for the win.

Glad to be back. 67-50 overall now.

Bullpen!

One thing I have learned playing the CPU on All-Star for other player missions is you cannot under any circumstances blow a lead late, or you will end up in extra inning hell. Played the Orioles in the Ruth mission, Brooks Robinson pinch hit HR off a hanging changeup in the bottom of the 3rd. They robbed a Killebrew HR in the 7th. Finally won it in the 10th.

Maybe I should stop grinding and play my A-team in RS for a while.

I feel you. I love my wife, but anytime she talks to me while I'm playing my success rate falls to about negative 45 percent.

Hornsby is worth it. Arguably the best hitting card in the game.

Got a great trade-in on his 91 so his MVP card only cost me 68K.

How the F is Babe Ruth not 125 power?

@NotchHim said in SDS with the content bomb:

The Rajah rakes for me even his 91 this year who is still on the bench. If this card has max contact he may bump Carew, or even Ozzie if he can play short like last year's Sig.

No SS secondary rating for him. Oh well, I saw the attributes, ungodly. He's getting a spot. Probably sending Kris Bryant to the bench. Buying Rajah now.

The Rajah rakes for me even his 91 this year who is still on the bench. If this card has max contact he may bump Carew, or even Ozzie if he can play short like last year's Sig.