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Rather pointless to have team affinity 89 for set 2. Many players have live series completed or close to it which makes many of these cards useless in ranked. Especially the pitchers. Would have been simple to make them 91 instead with a little extra juice and make it a little interesting. The majority of the core including the captain cards 87 were better than most of the cards in the program.

I don't mind 'grinding' for lower overalls.

My issue is that
-a lot of these guys are failed prospects
-No new set-its just a bunch of old, mostly ugly, prior cards.

I get that round 2 of TA is going to be all stars and round 3 perhaps hall of fame related so they needed some minor cards, but it should have done thematically. If they wanted to reuse past cards why not grab some old POTM or something?

@tttmerig Might want to wait and see the content drop on Friday in case there’s another collection.

I feel like it's random with direction. like, if you've made the other pitcher throw twice as many pitches because you are being patient, I feel like that favors the hitters, as it should. random with direction. some games I'm just overly patient for the first 3 innings and get the starter up into the 50s and then just start swinging away and mashing.

@Jcassaro44 said in Season 1 collections:

Once again posting that collections should be core.

I was of the mind that if they were gonna do a reset -it should be a clean slate, but now that I look at it, I'll have 20 ABs with Jroll after this last game to finish the nl east and have no other use for him before the end of season 1 ,that really really sucks.

I thought SDS said in the pre launch that s2 would start at 92( I could be wrong it was 2 months ago)

@tttmerig said in Team Affinity is way better:

Credit to SDS, they made Team Affinity 100x better than last year. It's way quicker and doesn't seem like a punishment. I also like the fact that you can pitch with boss for 3 inimhz and get 15,000 xp out of it, and it's also repeatable.

Do you mean 3 inimhz pnimiched? 🤪

I find it hard to re-adjust to power-creep too ( 🙂 ) … but it is awesome to have it back 🙂

I know. I like the show 23's menus because it doesn't BURN MY FRICKIN EYES

This will be my fourth year playing, and I plan on playing when it's released on GamePass. I only started playing when it was released on Xbox, and this was the first sports game I ever played online and the first game I've played online regularly since Modern Warfare 2 for the Xbox 360.

It all depends on how you play. If you only play offline, then absolutely yes. Offline is a slog for me. I mainly played offline during my first year until mid-July, when I tried online. Overall, I was a .220 hitter.

When I really started to challenge myself, I played online mainly after that and played on HOF and Legend. Before, I couldn't score a run on HOF. Now, I get to WS regularly (but with some challenges). I find the fun in challenging myself at 40 years old against the best of players in their 20s and younger and ending with 260ish wins and 130 losses in Ranked (I got destroyed late in the season by the top 50 players)

I would recommend challenging yourself. I think it's way more rewarding and keeps me coming back. This year I will take a step back due to other things in life and play a lot less. Its been dominating my life a little too much lately.

I think this year is going to be earlier, but I usually finish the last program an am done. Somewhere around New Years. I'll do MTO and RTTS for a little longer, but play my other games as my primary. With RTTS broken and needing to play MTO for every division every TA, I'll probably stop as soon as all they are putting out is rehash of the last year. I think they used to call it the 10th inning. So many great games coming out right now to use on stuff I've already done. I'll be back next year though.

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in Change up Team Affinity each season:

@romeischillin said in Change up Team Affinity each season:

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in Change up Team Affinity each season:

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Change up Team Affinity each season:

... thus taking away the entire raison d'être of Ranked. (Sets notwithstanding), the entire point of Ranked is to play whoever you want.

If you're limiting it to only certain TA-qualified cards, it's not Ranked anymore. It's Events.

The point is provide more opportunities for online players to complete programs like TA, just like offline players have. Offline players have things like Showdown, Conquest, Mini Seasons of which there is no online comparison.

I've completed TA with minimal online play... I don't think I've played online against someone for months as I keep forgetting to buy at least one month of PlayStation Plus and everytime I say that I'm going to do it other things come up and I end up using my money on that instead... like right now I'm trying to sort out a Vegas trip so PlayStation Plus has gone on backburner but I have maybe 2 divisions left for TA1 - 81% and 19% percent for the central divisions... if I really locked in I probably could've got these done a long time ago.

You are very much proving my point. TA and most programs are designed for offline players.

Online players probably complete TA faster honestly... I haven't practiced the model but basically you do Moments and Showdown and then use the cards you unlock to do the Conquest maps... after you complete the Conquest maps you go to Mini-Seasons with any cards you still need PXP with and the new cards you unlock... in the meantime inbetween time when you want to switch things up you play Ranked, BR and Events and since those modes use higher difficulty levels depending on where you are in the rankings you get more PXP instead of 1x for Rookie or 1.5x for Veteran for example (I think its 1.5x but might be 1.1x)... the key at the end of the day is to use the cards that are eligible for that season which Rank pretty much forces you to do with the exception of the one Wild Card.

Not to mention you get more in-game XP to get you through that Seasons Reward Path faster as well.

Mets 85 version of Gary Carter.
Please be a Captain Card

96 Yankees version if Wade Boggs.

Ronnie Darling with a nasty splitter.

Carlos Beltran 08 too!!!

Nothing makes a difference. Stop over thinking it.

@tttmerig_PSN said in Griffey attributes:

@MarinerMatt01 said in Griffey attributes:

Griffey
Con r 90 con l 97 pow r 106 pow l 85 vis 82 disc 91 clt 94 bunt 62 dbunt 44 fld 89 arm 88 reac 87 spd 82 steal 74 br agg 58

Vlad
Con r 101 con l 103 pow r 80 pow l 84 vis 94 disc 60 clt 101 bunt 35 dbunt 25 dur 99 fld 76 arm 99 acc 78 reac 74 spd 74 steal 68 br agg 94

Appreciate it. Was hoping for better than that

They are meant to be played as a theme team I believe