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I had to post this on here because I’m so excited about it, I won the qualifiers today!!! I had to beat tapscott and a few other amazing players, but I was able to pull it off. My team wasn’t even very good, but I was able to figure it out with them. There were so many stories from my games, I even skipped my homework today because I had to compete. Maikel Franco and Joe Morgan were my MVPs, I’m making a half of fame team for them all I don’t care.

Sorry for the excitement but I’m just feeling sky high!! I didn’t expect to make it past like the round of 64 so this was incredible

Can you please use periods

Use button accuracy. You’ll never make a throwing error again.

Just an FYI that there was a notification for flash sales today. The flash sales are as follows:

4 PM ET: Live Series Diamond
5: DOTP elite
6: Diamond Headliner set 11-46
7: Beach Ball

I’ll freely admit that I like older legends (pre-70s guys) more than newer, 90s and 2000s legends. And I also understand why lesser, recent players are added more to the game. They’re more popular, and people grew up watching those guys. It makes sense to include more of them, especially because they’re remembered so fondly by the player base.

At the same time though, I hope that efforts are continued to bring more guys into the game from before the 70s. Guys like Tris Speaker, or Babe Herman, or Satchel Paige. After the last 2 legends were announced, Roberts in particular, I’m getting worried that no old legends will
be added.

It sucks playing there. It absolutely sucks. You don’t have to hit the ball well for it to be a home run there because of the high altitude and bandbox dimensions all around. It’s just not fun at all, and it’s not even a visually interesting stadium in any way. And all of this is compounded by the fact that over 50% of games are played there. It’s just so frustrating because there’s nothing you can do about it - you have to rely on your opponent missing the ball instead of you making bad pitches.

At least the other high altitude stadiums are deep with somewhat interesting visuals. I’d much rather play at any of them than Shippett.

@IIJACKINTHBOXII said in Hey SDS, Can Ty Cobb be an 8th inning boss?:

Just use Rickey. He’s cooler and less racist. Boom.

I can’t believe there are people out there who still think Ty Cobb was some horrible monster. The claims stemmed from his biographer Al Stump and were done purposefully to make Cobb look bad. In reality he was one of the few old players who advocated and pushed for integration. Just look it up.

Anyways OP, I would imagine an inning boss would have to be his place since he was also a headliner earlier in the year. He could also be an event reward for whatever the next one is.

There’s so many pre ww2 players I’d want to see added, but I’ll name just a few of the more interesting ones:

Grover Cleveland Alexander, one of the best pitchers of all time, would have a 99 sig SP as well as a 85+ reliever card for his work in the 1926 World Series.

Bob Muesel was a forgotten member of the 1920s Yankees who was just as fearsome a hitter as anybody in the league except Ruth. He would likely be a 95-97 overall.

Dazzy Vance didn’t break out until he was 31 - but then proceeded to dominate the National League during the most prolific hitting era ever. He would be a 96-98 SP with outlier.

Smoky Joe Wood had a good pitching career before arm injuries derailed him. He decided to become an outfielder, and he had a decent end to his career. He would have two cards again, and his signature pitcher card would be a pitcher who rakes.

Finally there’s all of the negro league players that have been mentioned in a ton of other threads. Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and every single legend. Those would be the coolest.

I can’t believe another legend has passed. These last two months have been really awful for baseball legends. Such an integral part of those 50s Yankees teams, hopefully SDS comes out with his card soon.

@Onyx_Hokie_2 said in It has been Fall for 29 days...:

That's ridiculous, if true, especially considering that a lot of players will transition to other sports titles like Madden, NHL2k21, and PGA Tour 2k21 once the baseball season ends.

As soon as July hits every single year people say this. People who are going to move to other games are going to do so anyways. “If SDS doesn’t do X by Y then every player is going to go play other games” is one of the most tired tropes I’ve seen on these forums.

Also the first black manager, something you can’t overlook.

I made a long post about this. And it’s not even about working the count or getting them to 100 pitches. I usually throw newhouser for around 110 pitches and he’s still ready to go 2 games later. Energy usage needs to be harsher and the recovery needs to be slower.

Didn’t see if anybody else posted this, sorry if it has been. But cumulative rewards past 100 have been added:

110: 3000 stubs
120: Ballin’ is a habit pack
130: 7500 XP
140: Prospects set 2 pack
150: 20 pack bundle + 1 gold player

Yeah, Hamels over both. Big issue for both is they don’t have secondary fastballs.

@ItsaCanesthing said in Walter Johnson will be a boss:

These bosses if our guesses (Harper, Thomas, Johnson) are right are underwhelming at best, considering all of the recent content/bosses.

Harper/Thomas - 1B and RF are two of the deepest positions we have. Will Thomas be good enough to replace Babe or Musial?
I am not sure. Will Harper replace Walker? Maybe, but it will come down to the ratings. I was thinking about putting
Babe in RF (I only need to finish the AS NL Games) and keep Stan on the Bench. Walker has become a bench bat,
Defensive replacement.
Johnson is DOA for me if he is a boss. There is a glut of great obtainable pitchers (Orel and Maddux) as well as high end cards like Sale.
Besides, I have never met anyone that was excited about the Big Train and his windup motion.

Gossage might be the pick. Now that one seems interesting and could be at worst your setup man.

I agree, but I’m picking and using Johnson anyways. As a baseball history nut of the early periods he’s one of my favorite pitchers of all time.

Maybe I shouldn’t have let anybody know... my pack luck was atrocious: Tatis, base DOTP, Mathewson, and base BB.

It’s been said before and I’ll say it now. The people being lost to those games are going to be lost anyways. That’s the cycle of video games, you’re not going to play one game forever.

I made a post about this earlier in the year. The system needs to be redesigned so each player has a rating at each specific system. I wish I could find the post I made for it, but for example bellinger would be 100% in the OF and at 1B, but like 10% of his fielding ability everywhere else or something like that.

More importantly it would mean we don’t have as many people playing stupid secondary positions perfectly - Mookie comes to mind as somebody who would get like 60% at 2B, while catcher is even more noteworthy in general. Schwarber, who hasn’t caught in years, would be like 30% behind the plate.