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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

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)

@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

@MarinerMatt01 said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

@eatyum said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

@joeythebigboss said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

They need to just remove the auto shift period from the game why is this even a thing ? . Let individual users decide if and when to put it on take off the training wheels .

Then make the interface easier and not so that I have to pause it everytime I want to change it

I can see both sides of this issue. I would like to see an option where you can choose to have the auto shift on or off. I personally would leave it on, as I would forget to implement it 110% of the time

and how annoying it would be for opponents to enter the quick menu to apply the shift for 70% of the batters or whatever. Letting it happen automatically is convenient

@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

@UDVikings said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

2019 Fransisco Lindor pulled or went up the middle 423 out of 498 AB's... shifted 0 times. That was 84.9% of his AB's. In 1997 Griffey's percentage was 85.9%.

By this farce logic, why isn't Lindor shifted?

Where did you get these numbers from, for his pull/middle/oppo stats? I'm seeing that he hit 22.0-22.5% (depending on which site you use) of his batted balls to the opposite field in 2019 (which was a career low too, so if SDS looks at more than just one year for Live Series, the number for Lindor is closer to 25%)

Baseball reference, 2019 splits, location. I combined his numbers since he's a switch hitter.

Interesting. I'm not sure what input Baseball References uses for batted balls, but FanGraphs/Baseball Savant use Statcast and they have the 22.0-22.5% mark. Those two sites are more trustworthy when it comes to batted ball info from my experience.

@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Remove the auto shift from Griffey Jr. now!:

2019 Fransisco Lindor pulled or went up the middle 423 out of 498 AB's... shifted 0 times. That was 84.9% of his AB's. In 1997 Griffey's percentage was 85.9%.

By this farce logic, why isn't Lindor shifted?

Where did you get these numbers from, for his pull/middle/oppo stats? I'm seeing that he hit 22.0-22.5% (depending on which site you use) of his batted balls to the opposite field in 2019 (which was a career low too, so if SDS looks at more than just one year for Live Series, the number for Lindor is closer to 25%)

You sure it's not a Buy Order (i.e. Sell Now)? I don't see anything on the Marketplace here about one being sold and don't see any listed for purchasing

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).

@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.

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

Don't forget Pablo Sandoval or Vidal Brujan

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!

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.

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).

We have reached our user goal and have started play for this league. I will continue to monitor this post and reach out to people to establish a wait list if we have someone drop out or to get names for potential expansion next season

@Dolenz said in Offline DD - No path to 300 without Showdown or expensive collections is killing my desire to continue.:

Here is where I stand as an offline player as of last night

• Completed Starter Conquest
• Complete list 1st Inning Conquest
• Completed US Conquest
• Completed Starter Showdown
• Made Several failed attempts at the 1st inning Showdown
• Did all of the Welcome Moments
• Did all of the first inning Moments (Granderson and Woods)
• Did the Eckersly Evolution moments.
• Did a MTO run up to the World series(have not played the world series as it would be a waste of affinity points)
• Earned the FOTF from my favorite team.
• Played the nine inning CPU games against Cubs and Yankees. (Woods and Granderson)

I am sitting at 205 program points.

There are only a few options open to me to get the final 95 points. Showdown, which I have failed badly at in every attempt so far, and that costs 500 stubs each attempt. Collections, which also cost stubs, but in this case both collections together are more expensive than just buying the three bosses outright. Mindlessly grinding for another 30 hours or so in the last 9 days of the 1st Inning Program.

Basically the goal of 300 stars still seems so far away and the options to get there seem so unappealing (and just not fun) that it has killed a bit of my desire to keep playing.

Have you collected the Wood and Granderson cards? Those, I believe, are both 10 stars apiece

Bumping this once again, we got 11 teams and hoping to at least get a 12th before we get fully underway. If you've already replied here, I've sent private chats to you.

One addition that we've made in the last few days is that we've set up a pitching rotation schedule. This will be posted once we get started so that everyone uses all 5 of their starters and that you can't match up your aces against all of the good hitting teams in the league (we've randomized all rotations and will have pre-defined matchups)

@DuxOnThePondd said in Live Roster League Looking for Experienced Users:

Any openings??

Sent you a private chat yesterday morning, I'll send again