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Like Benjamin Franklin said "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." However SDS flipped this and they don't care how many innocent people suffer as long as they caught some guilty people. It's very Un-American of them.

I'd take the bots over this any day. My account gets restricted just by clicking at and looking at cards. What's the point of having a fast responsive app if you get restricted for every few clicks. It's very frustrating

I got hit with a 3-year suspension for "marketplace manipulation/stub transferring" tied to a single item ("Hurry up batter!") that spiked on 8/19. I've never transferred stubs to or from another account, not once. I've played this game since 2006 and logged over 1,300 hours this year alone. Support did a "full review" and wouldn't tell me what was actually looked at, just a form denial.

Based on the pattern in my case and others posting the same story, here's what I think is actually happening on their end, and why it's catching people who did nothing wrong.

What they appear to be doing:

• Detecting a card with an abnormal price spike and a burst of transaction volume in a short window (this part is clearly working, my ban traces to one specific item and date).
• Pulling every account that transacted on that card during the spike.
• Banning the whole group, with no visible distinction between one-off participants and repeat trading pairs.

What a more precise system should be doing instead:

• Same event detection, flag the spike.
• Build the actual transaction graph for that window: who bought from whom, how many times, at what price relative to the going rate at that moment.
• This is the part that matters: the real signature of stub transferring isn't "moved a lot of stubs during the event," it's the same two accounts buying back and forth with each other, fast and consistently enough that they're clearly not just competing in the open market. The point of the scheme is controlling where the stubs land, so once regular players start piling onto the same margin, the transfer pair can't guarantee their own linked account wins the trade anymore, and that activity typically drops off. A legitimate flipper does the opposite: they keep competing right alongside everyone else chasing the same margin, since they don't care who they trade with, just that they get a good price.
• Flag and investigate the accounts showing that repeated, off-market pairing. Leave everyone else alone, they're not part of a relationship, they're just reacting to a public price signal like the game intends.
• Account age/history as a secondary signal, not the primary trigger.

If they're just clustering "everyone who touched this card during the window" without looking at pairing behavior, they're going to keep sweeping up regular players along with actual transferrers, and no amount of appealing to support seems to fix it once you're in that bucket.

If you've been banned under this same "stub transferring" language for a card that just had a normal price spike, and you've never had a repeat trading relationship with another account, it might be worth comparing notes here. A pattern across multiple wrongly-banned accounts is a much stronger argument than any one of us appealing alone.

There have been a lot of more recent players but it surprises me the man they built a statue of outside target field doesn't have a card in MLB the show. Sure they have some hall of famers in for the twins but I would think the one player you'd make for Minnesota would be Kirby Puckett.

I opened up a ticket and so far I got the canned uninstall and reinstall response haven't heard anything since then. I assume if it was a ban they would've told me but again I have nothing to be banned for. But I'm back home tomorrow and maybe logging in on my console will help it get back in sync