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Let's face it, the game is geared toward those that spend money on the cards/packs and those are primarily online competitive players. It is DESIGNED to run out of offline content, forcing you to play head to head. I'm with you. I'm terrible at online and as long as players like us stay away, the game has major detriments to players like us logging on. I win at most one in 5 or even 10 events games (and I have a great roster), meaning I can't even get event rewards consistently with the time I have.

I agree. Anything that doesn't have an in-game effect should be able to be skipped.

@Tylerslikewhoa You mean where they give away all those packs that people paid money for now that the packs are virtually useless?

Or maybe that they are finally realizing that players can't be forced to play 40+ hours a week to grind for xp in this game to get these cards.

There have been so many missteps this year that it's hard to even imagine that they will correct it.

You flinch and it's a strike. It's a terrible system.

Glad I haven't bought stubs at all. They aren't getting another dime from me outside of paying for the game at this point. I honestly think the problem is that the game is free on xbox, so they are trying as much as they can to squeeze everyone. Terrible.

@Shauwn Until SDS releases their calculation methods, it's all just bluster. Your math seems to make logical sense, but so do the others. SDS's is somewhere else, as I noted in previous years games position was factored into the overall of a player. The best way would be to compare apples to apples two players from this year to last or even this year to this year. Multiple people did that and came up with different solutions. That doesn't mean you both are wrong or even that one of you is right. It's more likely due to the fact that no one has complete information as I'm guessing stats are weighted in certain ways, particularly in stat bands. The math is more complex than calculating its arithmetic average.

From my time in QA, video game math is often far more complex because it gives a larger variance on what makes a certain rating the "same." Otherwise, cards would always have to have all stats higher to get higher ratings. Basing your math entirely on an average would yield cards all being essentially equal at a specific rating, with just different names attached.

@Shauwn I don't think you really hoped for anything but an argument. Once you get my age, it's way easier to just take a deep breath and move on. New cards will come out next week and none of this will matter in 2-3 weeks in all honesty.

I’m a casual. I can’t win against online opponents at this point and the reward paths all require wins or stubs (BR) with time to get a sniff at something. So I don’t play. I’ve run into too many toxic players and I quickly grew tired of the matchmaking pairing me with players way above my ability level.

@yankblan no kidding. Hey abandon your family and enjoy this 2x weekend! I appreciate the effort but at best I’ll play an hour or two this weekend.

@xElRojo44x but they did have day 1 99s… if you spent a couple thousand dollars you could get all the love collection and get babe on day 1.

Lol. They are beyond tone deaf.

Guys bunting with no bunt rating, squeezing non stop. Early steals and if you run to the base and try to throw the animation is way too slow. Fix the animations at the bare minimum and stop letting players with no bunt rating drop perfect squeeze bunts.

Definitely control the draft and I'd also control the trades.

By June they'll be giving away everything they can to keep players. This is just to milk the whales. Patience. None of these cards matter right now. Focus on collecting live and pick up all the free stuff.

Throwing animations are horribly slow this year.

Brewers got screwed on their captains. Rowdy is a terrible hitting captain.

@AdeptOfMemory exactly this. I’m not poor. I can afford whatever I want. However, my time is valuable and all they did was make it so I won’t waste it ever again that way as I could have been doing other things.

I hope most of you enjoy slobbering on SDS. I’m cool. I’ll spend my money elsewhere from now on.

@AdeptOfMemory They have to mentally justify the thousands of dollars they spent. If everyone quits, they feel they didn't spend wisely (they didn't).

Yep! Typical SDS can't count. I'm sure they want the captain on there but forgot him. Great QA they have!

I’ve barely played and have stuck mostly to RTTS when I have logged on. These seasons suck. The grind that gets me is that if I want to unlock cards, I can’t play with the roster I want, and instead have to use terrible cards to achieve the goal to get other cards to progress. It’s a terrible cycle.

So… I stopped playing. Playing other games and having fun.