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@SalmanHOF_NSW said in Walks, game improvement:

Having a resource like this, along with a YouTube video i can't locate right now, lead me to a nice revelation.
It took me four days to increase my total Diamond Dynasty walks from 170 to the 300 required to complete the task and get the reward AFTER I did the bit of research to find how people draw walks. After that I just had the innings pitched task and completed that in a day. I finally got the workhorse uniform (much more awful than I anticipated when being used) and the touching grass award (super cool and much more enjoyable than I anticipated).
The difference was turning up the difficulty from rookie to legendary or GOAT when playing the CPU. It was then that I noticed the benefits of being patient that all the videos )that were supposed to teach me how to hit) meant. I started getting 7-8 walks a game for many games.
I played MLB the Show most of this year with about 6 weeks off around the AS break. I had pretty much given up on getting all the tasks completed, mostly because I never could be patient enough to draw walks.
Thanks to everyone who posts here for your help this season. I'm beginning to understand why I was advised to play All-Star of HOF level instead of rookie. I still can't hit but I see that most players with my experience have trouble too.

I think if you sit on a pitch and a location it helps you work the count as well. I pretty much sit inside fastball until two strikes and TRY to not swing at anhthjng else.

I am pretty sure I hit like 400 with my p5 Beltran, they'll release a new one that's 125 everything and I'll hit 150 with him

Lets all get along and complain to SDS how they don't rate us properly, its Thanksgiving...almost

@allday9128_PSN said in Weekend Classic Rating:

Sounds like your placement is glitched or something. If your starting rating for the season was 700 then you should be in gold 1. It doesn't matter if you didnt play at all this season and it also wouldn't matter if you tanked your rating all the way down to 0. You should still be in gold 1

I won 4 or 5 games today and made world series again. So I was definetly "ranked" 700 but I'm most definetly in bronze 1. My last opponent was in the 600s and was better than the first few (post game screen)

I know people have complained before.

I haven't played ranked since last weekend classic and my starting rating is 700 but I'm in bronze 1 against 0-399. My first match was against a guy that was ranked like 115 and his batting averages were like 100. Connection was also bad. 2nd game is all live series guys for my opponent and his avg is 150.

I didn't strategically drop in rankings I just didn't play. So I actually feel a little bad going into these games.

Idk if you should never drop lower than your highest ranking as I've seen mentioned before because that may leave you to get stomped on alot. But if I got to 700 I should prob not be allowed to drop below maybe 500?

@Dolenz_PSN said in Even though this is the Last XP path program there is more on the Schedule:

@capardo_XBL said in Even though this is the Last XP path program there is more on the Schedule:

We need a DQ Rewind pack….badly! Get these card prices down to manageable levels!

Doesn’t need to give us all of them, but a choice pack would be awesome!

The fact that these cards still go for so much is, at least to me, an indication that the mode is a bit of a failure.

I mean, can't you still play them all?

As one example Sonny Gray has multiple people willing to buy him for over 50K (with one current buy order at 99,001). Only three cards are listed for sale at 299K, 300K, and 400K

If people enjoyed this mode I can't understand why these prices have stayed high and have actually continued to go up?

Most people don't want to play for a chance at a reward vs guarantee

I made tons of stubs early by just repeating the mlb draft conquest cause I was guaranteed whatever the 3 cards gave me after playing 4 or 5 conquest games

9 inning offline mode that acts like a franchise where I can play on legend or hall of fame and get adequate rewards and packs for doing so.

Online is too much cheesy garbage humans plus bad connections where I gotta be in the right mood to put myself thru that.

Moments are kind've busy work as is show down. 3 inning modes to much random rng happens.

Id like a franchise where I can consistently upgrade my dd team and use in franchise mode against cpu on high challenge difficulties

Arod just had a hbo doc, works for fox... Seems like he's made the rounds to repair his image a bit. I could see him being a big legend in the next couple of years that would warrant his own cover. He seems like he would also be more willing to do the media rounds compared to bonds.

Current player? They tend to go young and exuberant. I think Arod may create more attention than any current player that's not already been on the cover

John Donaldson head and shoulders above the rest

Randy
Pedro
Verlander
Kershaw (abuse fast slider)

They're prob my top 5 with kluber #6

I don't have extreme clemens cause I'm not doing that. Burnes and Gibson I've gotten kind've rocked with. Skubal from the stretch has the fast windup which makes pinpoint tricky.

I used Paige once in weekend classic and he was pretty dominant in the one start

Just play the game on rookie mode

@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in Finest Mini-Season:

I've got to say the Rafaela 5xbh was quite interesting. Perfect perfect single after perfect single. Then when I got to 4XBH, it was walk after walk after perfect-perfect foul that would've been a hr after walk lol.

I'm like 12 games in I think on all star and have him batting leadoff. 1 xbh so far, he's been getting hits but not xbh

I never understood why people care what players another person uses.

I do hate randy and John Don, would soon enough just quit.

But I like my own team building within a salary cap restriction and it forces me to use players that I like to use but don't because they're not good enough.

I swear when I play the moonshot events the ball is always dead and I end up with low scoring games and no power again bronze pitchers

Then ranked you get like 10 runs against 99 diamonds

I think events are broken this year. I feel like I hit 100% better in ranked games compared to events

said in Weekend classic top 10.:

I'm ranked #3 at the moment and went 5-0 with 22 runs scored and a 145 rating change.

Guy in 1st had a 233 rating change and went 13-4 with 119 runs

I don't even know what the rewards are other than jdom being #1 who i likely won't use anyway

I doubt they're ever going to fix dashboard runs not counting since the game probably ends before it registers the outcome. One of the many reasons I gravitated towards offline play this year and hope for a 9 inning offline mode in 2026.

Hmm now I'm number 2 and that #1 person is gone completely

maybe the next weekend classic will be a "rewind" type thing where 1-6 wins are all choice packs.

I had about 1.3M stubs and use 750k or so to buy satchel paige to try to get a WC win and it worked so I ended up getting jram too.

I would sell [censored] you don't want and just buy jram honestly. Not much to wait for nowadays

I'm ranked #3 at the moment and went 5-0 with 22 runs scored and a 145 rating change.

Guy in 1st had a 233 rating change and went 13-4 with 119 runs

I don't even know what the rewards are other than jdom being #1 who i likely won't use anyway

I doubt they're ever going to fix dashboard runs not counting since the game probably ends before it registers the outcome. One of the many reasons I gravitated towards offline play this year and hope for a 9 inning offline mode in 2026.

For the weekend classic I went 5-0 with

Trout
Polanco (switched out to Reynolds)
Soto
Chipper
Cal
Daniel Murphy
Posada
Seager
Spooky marte

So three lefties. I did super good with Soto and Murphy but seager I'm batting like 115 with and Idk why. Against the cpu I hit a hr almost every at bat.

I only got one randy in my wc run and no John Don and I assume they all did bad against randy.

My Polanco is also hitting like 115 so switch hitters are no sure thing.

I do have mantle and I subbed him in some but he didn't do anhthjng. My Beltran is good but was trying others. I need to try zobrist maybe at 3rd

@TexOkcDenBal_XBL said in Diamond Dynasty in 2025:

1. Switch hitter
2. Switch hitter
3. Switch hitter
4. Switch hitter
5. Switch hitter
6. Switch hitter
7. Switch hitter
8. Switch hitter
9. Switch hitter

Bench: all switch hitters

So much fun

I feel like it's not that big a deal.

Circle Changes for me are the best pitch against switch guys. Outside of randy and John Don I won't use anyone without a circle change

Ideally a slow cutter too

Ranked should always be competitive and pay with your best players and no restrictions. Just remember sets and seasons when we couldn't use who we want

With that being said. I would like a 9 inning more casual mode that may allow restrictions, doesn't count towards your record, etc... Something more for fun

@Vipersneak_MLBTS said in Are 99 OVR Cards becoming meaningless at this stage?:

Why would you want the best cards to come out in November?? You guys make no sense. Very few people still playing in November.

Why?

Because I've been playing dd since 2020 and by the time finest comes out every year I don't care cause my team is already maxed. Finest should be fun and exciting and it's simply a lateral move as nothing really makes my team better.

That makes perfect sense to me