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Big time on the TA exchange thank you

Kind of new. I chose Season Awards Drop 7 with every choice pack looking for the Helsley card, and now I have like six non-sellable Wencel Perez cards. Does SDS typically allow for dupe exchanges down the line, or am I stuck with them? Not a big deal either way.

4-run 9th inning comeback in Ranked. Literally one strike away from pulling it off and disconnected. Only second time its happened to me this year, although both times I was winning. Lame.

Does anybody know if my players at least keep their stats/XP from the game?

I started off this RS super hot. Got up to 844 quick, record like 75-35, thought I was the man (I've never made WS before, third year playing).

I've dropped six straight and 8 of 9 to fall back to around 700. I've run into 80-5 squads who 10-run me, casual dudes who 1-hit me with Edward, even somebody who threw a lefty sub-mariner with an outlier sinker and I quit by the third inning. Even on the rare occasion I've played well, my opponent outplays me.

I physically cannot win right now. Any tips for snapping out of a cold streak?

Just played a BR game. I was up early and my opponent paused for about 45 seconds. Then all of a sudden it said I forfeited?

It wasn't like a connection issue message or anything. It just said I forfeited. I wasn't even the one who paused and the timer hadn't even run out either.

I'm not like upset because it was my first BR game of the run but I don't know what happened. Did my opponent do something nefarious? Or just a random glitch? Or did I miss up somehow?

@raesone_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

I got a runner on 3rd, 2 outs and I'm in an 0-2 count. So I move my thumb from the X button for a normal swing to the O button for a contact swing, because I wanna drive that runner in.

I get a fastball up and away and I go oppo on it with a contact swing. Result: 110mph exit velocity 425 ft no doubt 2 run homer.

That is not how a contact swing is supposed to work.

Wait wait wait......

Are there three swing options?

My entire world just shattered. I'm such an idiot. I've played like a thousand hours the past two seasons and never knew about contact swing.

I thought everyone was referring to normal swing with the X button. That's what I use.

Pain.

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

You don't need hard data to notice a difference, SDS themselves have acknowledged they are looking into check swings to see if it needs tweaking, I think I'll trust SDS, if they see a need to look into it, something is different over previous years when nobody cared.

I think the issue is SDS doesn't provide any good batted ball stats. They only have dumb stuff like batting average and RBIs. Give us xwOBA and hard hit rate in our stats page. Let us see the broader picture for quality of contact.

I could see them including that info in an update kind of like last year's swing analysis addition when people were freaking out about good-goods. They didn't actually change the game mechanics much, they just added more info to better illustrate outcomes.

I honestly had no clue about any of the contact swing drama until like 5 minutes ago when some super angry child sent me a long message RAGING about my use of contact swing. I had absolutely no idea this was a thing and hadn't noticed any difference.

Hell, my biggest complaint about this year's game is it feels like my good contact turns into outs more often. I slugged like .600 with Jimmy Rollins last year and now I can't buy a hit.

But whatever I'm just going to keep contact swinging away. I'd like to see them try to nerf my .200 batting average.

And it's not like I've noticed my opponents benefitting from contact swing either. I've got like a sub 1.5 ERA on Ranked--last year I was running around 4. Most of my games--win or lose--end 1-0 or 2-1. Some of that I think is the free pitchers are way better than the free hitters right now, but the run environment this year seems ridiculously low.

I'd like to see SDS give us some of that composite info, in addition to the batted ball data.

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

You don't need hard data to notice a difference, SDS themselves have acknowledged they are looking into check swings to see if it needs tweaking, I think I'll trust SDS, if they see a need to look into it, something is different over previous years when nobody cared.

I think the issue is SDS doesn't provide any good batted ball stats. They only have dumb stuff like batting average and RBIs. Give us xwOBA and hard hit rate in our stats page. Let us see the broader picture for quality of contact.

I could see them including that info in an update kind of like last year's swing analysis addition when people were freaking out about good-goods. They didn't actually change the game mechanics much, they just added more info to better illustrate outcomes.

I honestly had no clue about any of the contact swing drama until like 5 minutes ago when some super angry child sent me a long message RAGING about my use of contact swing. I had absolutely no idea this was a thing and hadn't noticed any difference.

Hell, my biggest complaint about this year's game is it feels like my good contact turns into outs more often. I slugged like .600 with Jimmy Rollins last year and now I can't buy a hit.

But whatever I'm just going to keep contact swinging away. I'd like to see them try to nerf my .200 batting average.

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

Since when is contact swing a glitch. It's literally identical to last year.

.... unless the implication is that it was glitched last year too. I mean if anything I think I'm having worse luck on batted balls this year.

Has anybody whose complaining about contact swing actually sat down and crunched some numbers?

Take your next 100 batted balls online and record the PCI number, the exit velocity and launch angle, and see what you get.

Mine just did. Up 6-4 in the 9th inning on ranked. Gave me the loss. Any chance SDS fixes this if I file a report? Or do I just gotta accept my unsellable silver sunglasses and say thank you?

Forget which inning Felix was but man he's been hard to replace. His day may come soon but for now he's getting a start every fifth RS game.

Sorry I know people probably are tired of market questions because the answer usually is "who the hell knows" but is it normal for these bosses to remain so expensive? I sold my Honus a few days ago and he hasn't gone down in price at all and now I'm anxious that I'm going to lose a significant amount of coin if I don't pick up the bosses I want right now.

Mantle
Sheffield
Helton
Victorino
Didi
Bellinger
Rollins
Hersch
Maddux
Walker
Correa

Getting quite close on Musial and Wood

Does it change the type of contact a batter makes? Or does it change the type of results contact turns into? Or does it just change the sharpness and accuracy of pitches, which would effect the previous two points?

Just curious.

@sbevans142 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

@poop69_lol_ said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

Happened to me last night. It’s a freeze off. If you exit out you’ll take the L.

If you choose to wait it could take a very long time.

Yep my opponent just messaged me "ur a [homophobic slur] just leave." So I'm in this for long haul everybody. Wish me luck!

Did you wait it out or take the loss?

Oooooh let me tell ya I got the W. I think he went to bed and his PS4 went into power save mode and turned off.

Does anybody know what happens when the servers start tonight? Is the game a loss or do we both lose?

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

Happened to me last night. It’s a freeze off. If you exit out you’ll take the L.

If you choose to wait it could take a very long time.

Yep my opponent just messaged me "ur a [homophobic slur] just leave." So I'm in this for long haul everybody. Wish me luck!