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The grand prize for every inning is the 350k boss reward pack, all the rewards beyond that pack are just extras for grinding out the inning XP. A guaranteed diamond that could be worth as much as 20-25k is still a really good reward
It would be a nice QOL improvement to be able to exchange multiple vouchers at one time in the Showdown Voucher Exchange for Team Affinity. It's a minor thing, but it gets a little redundant having to go and exchange the voucher 5 separate times if you want all your vouchers to go to the same division.
The easiest way to solve this, and to keep cards non-sellable at the same time, is to create a new Exchange for TA1 where you can exchange a 42 Series card (from Team Affinity) for a choice pack of all 30 options. And then do the same for TA2 and TA3 individually as well
I'd bet on him or Pedro being one based on that clue - with all the great RF they've released lately (Harper, Acuna, Clemente, Betts, Vlad), I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't Hank yet and the clue is for Pedro.
@buckeyepete77_xbl said in Wade Davis Prime Card Help MLB Mods:
@TheGoaler_PSN thanks a lot that is some really sound advise. I'm gonna try these tips out for sure! Just so you guys know, I'm 62 years young and I couldn't hang with the PinPoint pitching and the PCI hitting so I use pure analog on both. Studying and watching YouTube videos I have finally gotten my pitching settings down to where I am pretty consistent. My misses don't come back online. I'm a decent player on Hall of Fame but Legend is another story. I don't understand which games are on Hall of Fame and which are on Legend online though. My problem is it takes me about 3 innings on Legend to get a rhythm lol. I reckon that's a little late just like I am on the heater!
As someone mentioned earlier about the Opener strategy, you can guarantee that you face the 5th starter if you select your 5th starter every game. The game sorts it by OVR so you can put your favorite "5th lowest" SP in your rotation in the menus and use him every game to get the easiest pitching matchups. Do that, along with reinforcing a ton to get Rookie or Veteran games, and conquest maps will be pretty straightforward
@thewooderboy__psn said in Wouldn't 'guess pitch' add more strategy to the competitive game?:
@hikes83_psn said in Wouldn't 'guess pitch' add more strategy to the competitive game?: Guess pitch has always been a crutch for people who can’t recognize pitches. Hard pass Not really. I can guess the pitch type by movement if I wanted but I like the guess pitch feature. People in this game abuse the outside and cross plate pitches too much but with guess pitch you take that straight out of their comfort zone. No different than a real life player guessing pitches at the plate. It’s actually made me a better pitcher as to not fall into a one pitch or location player. It’s just a personal preference.
@hikes83_psn said in Wouldn't 'guess pitch' add more strategy to the competitive game?:
Guess pitch has always been a crutch for people who can’t recognize pitches. Hard pass
Guess pitch has always been a crutch for people who can’t recognize pitches.
Hard pass
Not really. I can guess the pitch type by movement if I wanted but I like the guess pitch feature. People in this game abuse the outside and cross plate pitches too much but with guess pitch you take that straight out of their comfort zone. No different than a real life player guessing pitches at the plate. It’s actually made me a better pitcher as to not fall into a one pitch or location player. It’s just a personal preference.
A real life player who guesses pitches at the plate doesn't get told while the pitch is being thrown that they were right, nor do they get a boost to their hitting attributes. They simply are looking for the right pitch in the right place, just the same as if you are to set your PCI in a spot and swing at a particular pitch speed.
And besides, when Guess Pitch is On in events, it is the absolute worst because it used to take away the ability to time your meter pitching. I don't know what it does this year, but if it's anything like last year, it opened up the possibility of meatballs without any pitching input.
@jayrval1983_psn said in Final points for FoD program:
Appreciate the advice. Kind of stinks it has to be done online, I actually haven't played this year online at all, though I've kept up quite well on offline stuff, collections, etc. I don't like playing online for multiple reasons, one which is I live in a 1900-built home that zaps Internet signal. As a result, at no fault of SDS, I'm left trying to hit teleporting balls, and needless to say that is impossible. I'll shoot for the Ks... But I wish SDS would stick with their promise that you can play offline and still earn major rewards, as was advertised heavily prior to release. Unfortunately it does appear they are pushing everyone to play online once again and I fear I should expect more of the same in the second half here.
Appreciate the advice. Kind of stinks it has to be done online, I actually haven't played this year online at all, though I've kept up quite well on offline stuff, collections, etc. I don't like playing online for multiple reasons, one which is I live in a 1900-built home that zaps Internet signal. As a result, at no fault of SDS, I'm left trying to hit teleporting balls, and needless to say that is impossible.
I'll shoot for the Ks... But I wish SDS would stick with their promise that you can play offline and still earn major rewards, as was advertised heavily prior to release. Unfortunately it does appear they are pushing everyone to play online once again and I fear I should expect more of the same in the second half here.
You pointed it out yourself, but SDS has stuck to their word - you can accomplish all the FoD goals offline, but you have to complete the showdown. I get it that you and others may not like (or not be as successful as you'd like) at showdowns, but don't go and talk about how SDS is pushing everyone to play online when every program has been able to be accomplished through offline methods.
@jake93436_psn said in Rivera program:
@samguenther1987 said in Rivera program: @jake93436_psn said in Rivera program: where the collections under and how do i start Under collections select Rivera, you can get players for the collection in a number of different ways IE the live series collections, player programs, inning programs, BR and event runs or just buying players off the market. You need x amount of players from 2021 HRD/ASG Veteran All star Signature Awards 2nd half Breakout Future stars Milestone Monthly awards Postseason Prime Prospect Rookie And the 42 Although i think you can skip one or 2 if you want. ok so im at the collect/collections then Rivera 42 i push that and all the vouchers are greyed out... where do i start to get the vouchers thats where im confused im on the milestone Rivera screen but everything is greyed out
@samguenther1987 said in Rivera program:
@jake93436_psn said in Rivera program: where the collections under and how do i start Under collections select Rivera, you can get players for the collection in a number of different ways IE the live series collections, player programs, inning programs, BR and event runs or just buying players off the market. You need x amount of players from 2021 HRD/ASG Veteran All star Signature Awards 2nd half Breakout Future stars Milestone Monthly awards Postseason Prime Prospect Rookie And the 42 Although i think you can skip one or 2 if you want.
where the collections under and how do i start
Under collections select Rivera, you can get players for the collection in a number of different ways IE the live series collections, player programs, inning programs, BR and event runs or just buying players off the market. You need x amount of players from
2021 HRD/ASG Veteran All star Signature Awards 2nd half Breakout Future stars Milestone Monthly awards Postseason Prime Prospect Rookie And the 42
Although i think you can skip one or 2 if you want.
ok so im at the collect/collections then Rivera 42 i push that and all the vouchers are greyed out...
where do i start to get the vouchers thats where im confused
im on the milestone Rivera screen but everything is greyed out
So it seems like you found the Legends/Flashback section, but now you need to go into each of the various categories (Veteran, Rookie, Breakout, etc) and collect however many cards (earn them through packs, Team Affinity, or the Live Series collection or buy them on the marketplace) it says on the right side for a "Rivera Voucher". Once you get a "Rivera Voucher" for a section, you can then return to the Rivera 42 tile and collect however many vouchers you have redeemed from the various categories.
You'll end up with a Rookie Rivera Voucher, a Breakout Rivera Voucher, and so on. You need all of the vouchers or all but one voucher plus the 42 series Jackie Robinson (Home Run Derby/All Star Game tile does not have a voucher for Rivera...nor is Ohtani a requirement or option).
Machado has an Awards card and Team Affinity 3 was all about giving All Stars 97-99 overalls, along with the Home Run Derby and All Star Game series. There are a few that you mentioned, but I'm sure Tatis, Trout, Scherzer, Cole, Kershaw will still get theirs in due time. And don't forget the Topps Now cards for some of the random performances, along with Monthly Awards cards
@killerpresence4 said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?:
@udvikings_xbl said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @killerpresence4 said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @chuckclc_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @thegoaler_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: Feel bad that I sold Pedro. I' ve never sold a boss before, but I'm saving up for Wagner's Mets version Its his Sig card with him on the Mets. He couldnt throw over 95 was he was an old Met. Just another stupid decision, I guess to balance the cards teams have, by SDS to make his sig a Met lol. But he did develop a good change up later in his career. When he relied pretty much on heat before NY. But hey, Pedro is still very cheap. What are you talking about? When Billy Wagner was pitching for the Braves (His final season) Wagner was still approaching 100 mph with his fastball. It wasn’t every pitch like when he was with the Astros but he hit triple digits on several occasions that year and routinely sat 96-97. So unless he was injured with some sort of elbow issue as a Met he was throwing harder than 95. He may have touched 100 at times with his fastball for the Braves, but he clearly wasn't averaging 100 mph for Atlanta in his final season. And his velocity was down, in the 95-96 mph range on average, for his time with the Mets https://www.fangraphs.com/players/billy-wagner/578/stats?position=P#pitch-info-pitch-velocity And for maximum velocity reached, see below. He did touch 100 mph in one month as a Brave (and hit 98/99 on a few other occasions). But his average velocity, even from the Brooks database, was still similar to what Fangraphs has. https://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=123790&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=month&minmax=mm&var=maxmph&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=10/25/2021 Wow dude, you just validated my whole point. I said his fastball was still approaching 100 in his final season with the Braves and routinely sat around 96-97. Well your linked says his average fastball velocity was 96.2. Which by my knowledge is between 96-97 mph. And guy I was replying to said he couldn’t get his velocity above 95 as a Met which based on the links you provided is simply not true. According to your figures his first season as a Met saw him averaging over 96 on his fastball and second year saw him a tick below average velocity of 96 at 95.8 which is well above 95 mph. Not sure what point you’re trying to make except to be argumentative.
@udvikings_xbl said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?:
@killerpresence4 said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @chuckclc_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @thegoaler_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: Feel bad that I sold Pedro. I' ve never sold a boss before, but I'm saving up for Wagner's Mets version Its his Sig card with him on the Mets. He couldnt throw over 95 was he was an old Met. Just another stupid decision, I guess to balance the cards teams have, by SDS to make his sig a Met lol. But he did develop a good change up later in his career. When he relied pretty much on heat before NY. But hey, Pedro is still very cheap. What are you talking about? When Billy Wagner was pitching for the Braves (His final season) Wagner was still approaching 100 mph with his fastball. It wasn’t every pitch like when he was with the Astros but he hit triple digits on several occasions that year and routinely sat 96-97. So unless he was injured with some sort of elbow issue as a Met he was throwing harder than 95. He may have touched 100 at times with his fastball for the Braves, but he clearly wasn't averaging 100 mph for Atlanta in his final season. And his velocity was down, in the 95-96 mph range on average, for his time with the Mets https://www.fangraphs.com/players/billy-wagner/578/stats?position=P#pitch-info-pitch-velocity And for maximum velocity reached, see below. He did touch 100 mph in one month as a Brave (and hit 98/99 on a few other occasions). But his average velocity, even from the Brooks database, was still similar to what Fangraphs has. https://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=123790&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=month&minmax=mm&var=maxmph&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=10/25/2021
@chuckclc_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: @thegoaler_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: Feel bad that I sold Pedro. I' ve never sold a boss before, but I'm saving up for Wagner's Mets version Its his Sig card with him on the Mets. He couldnt throw over 95 was he was an old Met. Just another stupid decision, I guess to balance the cards teams have, by SDS to make his sig a Met lol. But he did develop a good change up later in his career. When he relied pretty much on heat before NY. But hey, Pedro is still very cheap. What are you talking about? When Billy Wagner was pitching for the Braves (His final season) Wagner was still approaching 100 mph with his fastball. It wasn’t every pitch like when he was with the Astros but he hit triple digits on several occasions that year and routinely sat 96-97. So unless he was injured with some sort of elbow issue as a Met he was throwing harder than 95.
@chuckclc_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?:
@thegoaler_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?: Feel bad that I sold Pedro. I' ve never sold a boss before, but I'm saving up for Wagner's Mets version Its his Sig card with him on the Mets. He couldnt throw over 95 was he was an old Met. Just another stupid decision, I guess to balance the cards teams have, by SDS to make his sig a Met lol. But he did develop a good change up later in his career. When he relied pretty much on heat before NY. But hey, Pedro is still very cheap.
@thegoaler_psn said in Is there a list of bosses by inning?:
Feel bad that I sold Pedro. I' ve never sold a boss before, but I'm saving up for Wagner's Mets version
Its his Sig card with him on the Mets. He couldnt throw over 95 was he was an old Met. Just another stupid decision, I guess to balance the cards teams have, by SDS to make his sig a Met lol. But he did develop a good change up later in his career. When he relied pretty much on heat before NY.
But hey, Pedro is still very cheap.
What are you talking about? When Billy Wagner was pitching for the Braves (His final season) Wagner was still approaching 100 mph with his fastball. It wasn’t every pitch like when he was with the Astros but he hit triple digits on several occasions that year and routinely sat 96-97. So unless he was injured with some sort of elbow issue as a Met he was throwing harder than 95.
He may have touched 100 at times with his fastball for the Braves, but he clearly wasn't averaging 100 mph for Atlanta in his final season. And his velocity was down, in the 95-96 mph range on average, for his time with the Mets
https://www.fangraphs.com/players/billy-wagner/578/stats?position=P#pitch-info-pitch-velocity
And for maximum velocity reached, see below. He did touch 100 mph in one month as a Brave (and hit 98/99 on a few other occasions). But his average velocity, even from the Brooks database, was still similar to what Fangraphs has.
https://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=123790&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=month&minmax=mm&var=maxmph&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=10/25/2021
Wow dude, you just validated my whole point. I said his fastball was still approaching 100 in his final season with the Braves and routinely sat around 96-97. Well your linked says his average fastball velocity was 96.2. Which by my knowledge is between 96-97 mph. And guy I was replying to said he couldn’t get his velocity above 95 as a Met which based on the links you provided is simply not true. According to your figures his first season as a Met saw him averaging over 96 on his fastball and second year saw him a tick below average velocity of 96 at 95.8 which is well above 95 mph. Not sure what point you’re trying to make except to be argumentative.
In all honesty, I misread your post at first. By the time I re-read it afterward and saw you had essentially said what I proved about touching 100 but averaging 96-97, it was already posted and I was closing out of the site anyway. My fault for not reading closely enough in the first place
@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in "Secret" under news on main page:
@udvikings_xbl said in "Secret" under news on main page: New theory...the letters that are red are "M", "J", and "D" before the translation. That could be Joe DiMaggio which would fit with the New Legend "m" "j" "d" are actual letters in this situation. The letters are or this sentence is cryptogrham. The 3 letters are important tools in figuring out the rest
@udvikings_xbl said in "Secret" under news on main page:
New theory...the letters that are red are "M", "J", and "D" before the translation. That could be Joe DiMaggio which would fit with the New Legend
"m" "j" "d" are actual letters in this situation. The letters are or this sentence is cryptogrham. The 3 letters are important tools in figuring out the rest
I don't think it's that complicated. All I had to do was slide the alphabet (copy/paste in Excel and than look up the new letter) once I matched 's' with 'a' because there would be no other single letter word. I doubt it's a coincidence that doing that gave me the
"Friday's Featured Program will focus on a legend and his mates"
And then M J D would be perfect to stand out to be jumbled for Joe DiMaggio since it's a New Legend. I thought the same thing at first that the red letters would be part of the translation solution, but when a simple approach gave me a coherent statement, I figure that's the answer.
@the_dragon1912 said in "Secret" under news on main page:
@udvikings_xbl said in "Secret" under news on main page: Well, while I'm 100% confident in the translation of the jumbled letters on the News page, this is just speculation..... I started adding words onto the end of the URL and tried the entire phrase at first. But then I just added "program" onto the end of theshow.com/news, and lo and behold, theshow.com/news/program re-directs to the Extreme Program at the end of 2020. And those three rewards were Nate Pearson, Christian Yelich, and the only Legend was Lou Gehrig. So for now, Gehrig is my best guess I tried that too and couldn't come up with anything. That being said it isn't Gehrig. Its a new legend
Well, while I'm 100% confident in the translation of the jumbled letters on the News page, this is just speculation..... I started adding words onto the end of the URL and tried the entire phrase at first. But then I just added "program" onto the end of theshow.com/news, and lo and behold, theshow.com/news/program re-directs to the Extreme Program at the end of 2020. And those three rewards were Nate Pearson, Christian Yelich, and the only Legend was Lou Gehrig. So for now, Gehrig is my best guess
Well, while I'm 100% confident in the translation of the jumbled letters on the News page, this is just speculation.....
I started adding words onto the end of the URL and tried the entire phrase at first. But then I just added "program" onto the end of theshow.com/news, and lo and behold, theshow.com/news/program re-directs to the Extreme Program at the end of 2020. And those three rewards were Nate Pearson, Christian Yelich, and the only Legend was Lou Gehrig.
So for now, Gehrig is my best guess
I tried that too and couldn't come up with anything. That being said it isn't Gehrig. Its a new legend
Ah yes, good call. Not Gehrig after all
Friday's Featured Program will focus on a legend and his mates. That's what it translates to
Not sure yet on what the 3 red letters mean though, those 3 letters are "U" "R" and "L"
You've got to simply mix up pitch type, speed, and location against free swingers. And try to determine if they are free swinging because they are just hoping to get lucky at pitch type (i.e. directional and/or on a TV with lots of input lag) or just because they have no plate discipline.
If it's the former, it's really easy - throw breaking balls until they come close to timing them up and then work fastballs inside because there's no way of catching up. And don't be afraid of throwing them lots of breaking balls in the dirt until they start to lay off them.
If it's the latter and they just swing at everything with decent timing but no discipline, then you'll have to work a little harder to get their timing/eyes off by working inside and then outside and sometimes mixing it up with back to back pitches in the same location. All about being a pitcher to get the strikeout/weak contact in this situation.
Pro tip - if you want to speed things up a bit, you can rent the extra 4 Monthly Awards cards without locking them in and just sell them when you complete their individual (or group) PXP missions. Just don't lock them into the collection and you can speed up your PXP progression.
But like others have said, it's not necessary but it does help.
And P.S. you can probably make a profit in renting them if you buy and sell at the right times.
It's one of the collection rewards for Uniforms, not sure which ones but just look through Collections - Uniforms and one of the rewards will be that.
Gwynn's card has a diamond shield but his in-game shield will be gold because his Fielding rating is an 87 (need a 90+ to be diamond in-game shield). In-game shield color is only based on Fielding rating
SDS didn't take anything away. You only gained Parallel points last year, as well, when you finished 8 plate appearances or finished a game. You could (and still can) hit and quit if you just want stats (like Justice getting on base 5 times).