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On one hand, it's great to be able to have an organized league format to play online games against other users, but there are many basic aspects of a league that are lacking.

• There is no ability to set lineups vs LHP and vs RHP, so we're stuck setting a vs RHP lineup and then having to manually edit the lineup if and when we know we're facing a LHP

• There are no standings or league leader pages within the stats menu. I know you can sort the Team Stats by Wins, but it's still not done in a very organized fashion. Missing out on a league leaders page is highly disappointing as there's no easy way to have a look at who would be the MVP or Cy Young candidates.

• If you are trying to have a league against computer teams, there is no way to ever play on the road. And even against humans, home/road matchups have to be coordinated through who sends the challenge.

• The player pages are essentially ripped from Diamond Dynasty as when you hit triangle on a player, you get their typical DD looking window with marketplace and location information but cannot see their stats for the league.

• You aren't able to use two-way players (Ohtani) in your lineups screen, and you aren't able to use any extra starters in the bullpen.

• You aren't able to use a custom roster to start the league. If you could use custom rosters, dedicated leagues could have an offline offseason to include free agency and player progression/regression and then edit rosters and start a new season with an updated roster set.

Custom leagues is a step in the right direction in that it allows the opportunity to play an organized league with other users, including a postseason tournament. But it ends there and there are a lot of very valuable features missing or broken. Adding or fixing a number of the features I mentioned above would make for considerable upgrades. Hopefully they're able to take this version of custom leagues and add to it with the move to next gen consoles.

Don't forget Pablo Sandoval or Vidal Brujan

And what's funny about the "Rare" Finest is that they are actually less rare than the base Finest cards. You have a 1:4 odds of getting a rare selection (20%, since 1:4 odds is the same as 1 in 5). So if you'd open 15 regular Finest packs, you should theoretically get 12 base packs and 3 rare packs. Since there are 14 base Finest and 3 rare Finest, per the odds, you'd get all 3 of your rare cards before completing all the base picks.

And then throw in the guaranteed Rare packs at the end of every TA, and the Rare Finest cards are going to remain very, very cheap

@raesONE said in Corey Seager Program BS:

All the cards were free though. If only you held on to them instead of selling them. They even gave out more free cards today with that pack glitch. Could've known it would be like this where the collection was neccessary too imo..

Very much this. In fact, they literally gave duplicates of every pack, so really the collection was free from these 4 free packs today and the 4 packs you got through the program (and you still could complete the moments to get more free cards).

All of these POTM/Playoff programs have been mostly free collections actually - all you have had to do is complete the moments and then they drop another duplicate of those packs in the program itself.

Literally cannot complain about the collections being required

Really bad break on the dropped pop-up and the ensuing ambush from your opponent.

To touch on your last question though, the +/- system for wins and losses is all part of how the whole rating system is implemented. Take a read on the Elo rating system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system), but essentially you get positive points for winning a game (more for the higher rank your opponent was or less for the lower they are) and similarly you lose points for losing a game (not as much if you lose to a much higher team and quite a bit if you lose to a much lower ranked team). If you had no chance for a loss of points on a loss for going 7 innings, you'd have a lot more people making World Series (and Championship Series for that matter).

Mays and Hornsby? Are you talking about 19 DD MLB and NL collections?

And no way for any of us to know what's possible, in terms of flipping, unless we know how many and which cards you still need to complete collections.

Alright, I really have no idea how active the 19 market is but I'm guessing it'll be extremely difficult to get enough stubs by flipping. I'm not sure what the prices are looking like on 19 right now, but I'm guessing you'll need a couple hundred thousand stubs to finish all of the NL. Sorry I can't be of any more help, but best of luck in the flipping if you go that way!

I used Tom Seaver and actually was perfect through 6 innings with 12 Ks - just worked the inside fastball and low and away change/sliders. I gave up a couple hits in the 7th and just let the bullpen do their thing to get thru the last 3 innings - pretty sure I got a full inning out of everyone (Sig Chapman and POTM Diaz for sure and not sure about the other) without worrying too much about matchups. Gave up one run on a HR to Ted Williams in the 9th and won 2-1

Guessing this is essentially an end to streams of new content releases. Any new content will just be released but without the usual accompanying stream.

As for the $9.99 tweet, it's a farce - just something someone is posting to get attention and then people are copying/pasting it

@AshbySB said in Best Conquest Extreme map?:

Geez dude. The YT he suggested the guy said it takes 10-12 hours. Looked at another youtube video and that guy said 8 hours. I am looking for the quickest one..... That's all.

No matter what video you watch, you're going to have around 40-45 conquest games to play at a minimum. Assuming each conquest game about 15 minutes, you're talking about approximately 10 hours in total. There's just no way around playing 40+ games with having to steal fans and playing the whole map once and then the other side a second time.

I watch CBrev's video and kept the map art up while playing. It was a good set of routes, and knowing what the missions were, I can't imagine a much more efficient route.

Keep in mind that vs computer, your H/9 and K/9 are your most important attributes to focus on. Velocity doesn't really matter so use guys with pitch mixes you like and who have good H/9 and K/9.

LS Betts has terrible splits vs lefties, so it all depends what you're looking for - Betts will mash righties and has better perks but Robert will be a better all around bat. If you are looking to platoon Betts with another right handed bat to make up for his lefty numbers, that's probably the better option (price considered).

Technically, you need all the Postseason 2020 cards except two (Seager is one of these though). You could do the collection once you get to Buehler at 85 program points (therefore doing the collection before you get Arozarena as well)