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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Most Disappointing Cards of the Year:

No one would argue Aaron Nola had the best of years, but he has the highest active career WAR to not get a Flashback card.

I think Peterson wins the 'deserved a card he didnt get' award. Like the rest of the Mets starters he collapsed in rhe second, however:

Didn't get a card in 2024, after going 10-3 with a 2.91 era in 21 starts.
Didn't get a shut out Topps Now
Didn't get an All Star card
Didnt get a spotlight for a 1.05 ERA in July (Only bringing this up because after shafting him on the previous two items they could have easily slotted him into a spotlight card)

@ebbets1957_PSN said in The Final Schedule Update?:

Kind of stunned Carlos Beltran has not gotten a final "monster" card.

The biggest new legend and the majority of Show players probably only used a gold card

It seems like the OP matches up with players far inferior to him, but then you seem to imply the reverse never happens. If you beat a better opponent its 'oh we are both good, its baseball'

which is where i go back to my statement that you probably aren't as good as you think you are. Especially if you are at a low enough rank that these supposedly terrible players are matched up with you.

No one seems to be denying that the RNG component is heavier this year than past years, but you make it sound like a legit bronze II player beating a 800+ ranked player is a common thing.

Well get him a White Sox card in this set then

Does SDS have the rights to Murakami now?

@Chrono_Omega_PSN said in Another game of dominating opponent:

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Another game of dominating opponent:

You likely aren't as good as you think you are.
Also, why didnt you voice concerns after the games you won vs better opponents if this is such an epidemic?

Opinions from non online players is always intriguing. I don’t voice opinions against better opponents because I can see they are good, there’s no issue losing to someone who actually played great instead of someone who struck out 16 times and got majority of their runs via flukes.

But what about all the times you are beating clearly superior opponents? If what you claim is true, that there is no skill involved, surely this would have been an issue for you too?

You likely aren't as good as you think you are.
Also, why didnt you voice concerns after the games you won vs better opponents if this is such an epidemic?

Why on earth is that Santander a Blue Jay? A guy who hit .175 should never get a 99

@Playaz23_PSN said in My Legact - Innings pitched:

Just an FYI, if you remove a pitcher during the inning it won't count toward your total. The pitcher has to get all 3 outs.

Ive definitely lost some games because of this. The IP stat is more important to me than an online win.

@jcassaro44_PSN said in New Cards for This Week - For the 2 people who still care:

I assumed we’d get a holiday themed Bobby Grich card for Christmas

I mean, its been a while since theyve given us a showdown...

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in New Cards for This Week - For the 2 people who still care:

@Dolenz_PSN
Yay. I get to use Jeimer Candelario (said no one ever)!

I'm sure one of his relatives is excited. until they saw it was behind DQ so probably 250k stubs

Rather than flood the message board with topics, I'll just post the next thing here

INNINGS

1. The cards in the rewards track should be high end cards and the best cards released on the inning drop day.

2. Innings should have a themed set. WBC is a perfect example. Other posters have ideas for different sets. And of course stuff like Finest, AS/retro All star, etc

3. Innings should be 5 weeks. That puts the 10th inning as the forever with 7 weeks until the next game's release, allowing for content to go a bit deeper past early November

4. Innings need to launch with content. I would propose a set of large conquest maps, similar to the 3 that the game launched with last year, or even the USA map. These can be recycled with new rewards if it helps on development time

5. What I have in my head is something like this: day 1 Theme program. The other 4 Fridays would be the monthly awards from the above post, a second theme program drop w/ mini season, an open week for seasonal/special sets (like easter for example, or moonshot), and weekend classic (ideally on the last weekend of the season, but can be 4th if the monthly awards lines up for fifth)

6. The weekend classic weekend is also when SDS can drop things like the Yu Darvish program as well as DQ and conquests so the offline players have things to do

7. More to come on these themed sets in a later post

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in Make Content Great Again: Topps Now/Spotlight:

@Teak2112_MLBTS
If they’re packs there’s seriously no point.

I do think there is a point to packs:

1. Keeps Papa Sony happy with potential revenue
2. Good for future rewards

Here are two cards with holiday themed names (one of which is a stretch)

Now go play the mode almost nobody likes for a chance at getting one!

I have a lot of ideas how to tweak the content model to make for a better user experience, better balance of players/legends, while recognizing the elephant in the room that Sony wants $$

I will split these into subtopics to avoid an extremely long wall of text

Spotlight program has been in place the last two years. This year added in a retro lightning card. This has been quite pack heavy, with finite numbers of packs released.

1. Return Monthly Awards to its own program. This program should aim to have every position represented, including the full 7 relievers. This program should not be trivial to complete and it would be considered major (Friday) content. No packs. One captain.

2. Return Topps Now to Tuesday. Do not limit this to a rigid x cards per week, allow some flexibility.

3. Add retro spotlight cards to the Topps Now release. This solves a couple problems: it lets SDS better balance theme teams (so yes, expect rockies pitchers that had a good month to be frequent highlights) as well as guys that had good months on teams they dont often get cards for. And yes, these are fine as packs. They don't need to be big (as small as 3 base, 1 rare), and yes the rare card(s) would be a bigger name. The Topps now program topper would be one of these packs.

More topics to come....

It 100% needs to have a failed run still give you some kind of progress, but if its just moments and showdowns again next year I will not play it. I just dont find showdowns fun, and moments have their place in programs but are far too rng reliant for a mode like this for my tastes.

i want to play actual games.

To each their own, but not having new content to look forward to takes away a lot of the appeal.

@nymets1987_PSN said in What do we think the new mini seasons rewards will be? Legends or Packs?:

I truly missed the packs we had last year and the collections as they were I know no one agrees with me

You are saying you liked sets then.

Seasons: EXACT same concept as innings, just longer. Otherwise the two conepts are 100% identical

Sets: Cards with the same theme. Topps Now is a set. New Threads is a set. And in 2023-2024, cards released during a season were a set

Expiring cards: What people hated. Not the same thing as sets and seasons, and 100% possible with 2025's structure if SDS really wanted to (Events exist so they can obviously exclude cards whenever they feel like it)

People don't like being told they can't use cards. If they released 2023 again, but instead of forcing people to exclude cards they gave incentive to use newer cards (double pxp for newer cards, double xp for a lineup consisting of 50% new cards for an example) it would be hailed as the greatest year in the game's history (well, assuming gameplay improves)

The problem with 2024 is it still has the newer spotlight format, and the program content was terrible for 90% of the year.

I agree that the older pack model was better though. Which they did go back to after New Threads 2. And I personally prefer the bigger collections as well.

@Ericulous1_XBL said in What do we think the new mini seasons rewards will be? Legends or Packs?:

This content is great for people who started the game late and useless for those of us who have been playing all year. I have a few hundred unopened packs. There isn’t much they can do do at this point in the game cycle to make it worth playing but as someone else mentioned, this makes run it back redundant. Legend cards would be a bit more interesting give us a reason to play.

And thats what forever paths typically are, for late comers and people that dont play as their primary game.

And also for people who just like earning packs instead of buying off market. good way to get HRD, Ultra (to trade in for finest for example) and chase packs.

This kind of makes run it back redundant. I had hoped there would be a way to earn older Spotlight packs as thats missing right now.

They definitely had poor value on mini seasons early in the year and corrected, hopefully 2026 is more balanced out of the gate