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My theory about this is simple. The lack of legends is an attempt to save money. If they can get the player base to accept less and less legends, then they don't have to pay for their likeness and it saves their bottom dollar. I think it is pretty obvious this year too.

There has been way more focus on active players and when they do release legends, they are part of a massive dump to get them out there (Moonshot).

This is coupled with the fact that many great legends are not in the game this year including
Fergie Jenkins
Ernie Banks
Mike Schmidt
Eric Davis
Frank Thomas

If you slowly pull back, then people might not notice.. and it saves money.
And if you replace Frank Thomas with Ben Zobrist.. it saves money

Just a theory though

I agree with you about the events 100%. Every year people are hoping for more online modes and every year, we are disappointed. In fact, not only have they NOT added any new online modes (minus COOP), but they have modified the only two modes they had to make them worse. Events now being sporadic and only there half the time is crazy. And BR has had its rewards gutted so badly that it is pointless to play.

Which leads me to the real true problem with this year's model. Money. This game is the first game that has been all about money. In their case, stubs. In the past, there were many ways to make stubs.. You could flip the market, Grind BR (if you were good enough) or Invest in players....
But this year all of that has been taken away.. Can you still flip the market? Yes, but it was extremely difficult in the earlier parts of the year, especially with the amount of bots. BR rewards could be an Ohtani.. but more likely would be an 88 Bryce Harper.. and Investing was cut down to a stack of 20 cards per player.... What this means is to obtain stubs, all roads lead through them. And wouldn't you know it. almost every amazing player is put behind a Chase pack this year, with no other way to obtain them then to pay them to receive it.

It truly is a great model though because it isn't Pay to Play... This is something else...

Keep prices for most of these cards ridiculously high, and push players to either play hours a day, or buy stubs from them. And if anyone or anything threatens that model (3rd party sites), then they pounce....

I don't know what there profit looks like with this year's game, but even though we are all saying how bad it is, I can almost guarantee this was their most lucrative year to date.. Because of that, you will see definitely see more of this next year. I would bet anything on it.

Dodgers.. it's win win.. if they win, you get better packs, and if they lose, we all win

I didn't play this season and got knocked to the lowest bracket. I would have played but took one look at the rewards and logged off. I 100% get it, you are in the lowest bracket, so the rewards are going to be worse, but a win gets 2 standard packs? really? You can easily have put in more WC rewind flashbacks (these are old cards now), or deluxe packs, or rewind multiplayer, or rewind world series.. or something.. even one or two of them mixed with ballin packs.. anything.

After the newest collection drop, it has become obvious that there has been a shift in the direction of the game this year. It isn't about legends, but more about which card plays better in the game. With the new Ben Zobrist collection reward, it really highlights the push towards players that mash the ball IN GAME, as opposed to timeless legends and fan favorites. This was even noticeable with the V-Mart collection. My point is that this feels like a step backwards for the franchise.

Here is what I am talking about. The new legends were picked up this year were celebrated not because they had hall of fame and legendary baseball careers, but they were chosen because they play well in the game.

New/Recent Legends include

Darren O' Day
Keith Folke
Chase Headley (pretty recent)
Ben Zobrist
Victor Martinez

But the players we lost include

Mike Schmidt
Ernie Banks
Frank Thomas
Eric Davis

I am not taking anything away from the new legends, and I am someone who welcomes more and more players, but it seems that for one reason or another (money perhaps?), there is a push to focus on players that perform well in the game, instead of boosting players that did exceptionally well in real life.

Long story short, Am I crazy to assume that there might be a push away from the big name ( and big cost) legends to replace them with anyone who throws funky or is a switch hitter?

Based on the lack of captains this year, it looks like they are phasing them out. I really enjoyed the idea, but they haven't even attempted adding new Captains, let alone any specialty captains like previous years. This is a major disappointment honestly. I thought they would fine tune the captain cards, not completely abandon them.

I opened it on the website and broke the system...

So I didn't get a chance to play til Sunday night and I was in Bronze level 2. 400 was my rating. I played one game as assumed I'd have time Monday for more. I won that game and logged off and went to work.

Next day, WC is still going but I'd been dropped to the bronze 1 category. I didn't realize if til I looked at the rewards after my second game.

Did I miss something? Are we supposed to drop or did the rewards change Monday?

Backfoot Sliders is such a beautiful name. More people should name their kids that

Hear me out. If you have some of these cards P5, I was wondering if anyone else bought in to the notion of an Angels Team right now with the Wally Joyner and Jared Weaver Captains. I get that they only give 6 points with 15 cards, but you could easily add players like

Mike Trout Supercharged
Yoan Moncada
Jo Adell
Vladimir Guerrero
Chone Figgins
Jose Soriano (Supercharged)

And remember, you only need 15, so the entire team doesn't have to be Angels in order to boost those players...

Anyone else try this yet?

Played a Ranked Season game last night to try and climb the ranks, but after the game ended, I received the message The Show is servers are offline?? (Or something like that). I noticed that nothing counted for the game and everything from the record to the PXP was missing.. Has this happened to anyone else?

He does consistently throw over 100 miles per hour. So outlier makes sense because it makes his pitches more authentic.

Here is my Guess

David April
Billy Foolish
Michael Harris the 1st
Steve Jokes
Daniel Giggles

Or something like that

I haven't heard the first part yet about closing margins..... @onix_savage22_psn interesting

i know i will be called every name in the book, but my question is why would someone use bots in this game?

That is all I'm hearing these days, but in this game, stubs do not transfer, they cannot be sold, and to exploit the marketplace doesn't seem to make a lot of sense unless you could sell the entire account.

And I do get it, you could transfer stubs buy upselling a really cheap items or cards, but that seems like something SDS could actually monitor as cheating/exploiting...

Are we talking about actual bots? or just people trying to work the market with macros while they are away to get an advantage?
Are we talking actual bots, or people using scripts to play Ranked Seasons to get stats done?

I'm not saying this isn't an issue, but I am trying to get to the motivation for their actual use if it is anything other than what I mentioned above....

Now, let the roast begin

Dominic Canzone should have had a supercharged card.. Unless I missed it

In the past, Events is what I enjoyed most. Mostly based on the lack of time I have to play multiple Ranked Season games in a row. I honestly did not mind the win counter that was part of events to get to a specific reward either, but for some reason, they moved away from it.

Last year after they took that out, they quickly discovered that Events were absolutely pointless and really didn't serve any point other than maybe moving the multiplayer program along. They needed it to have relevance, but they didn't want to use the "win counter" again. So this is what they came up with.

Honestly, I don't mind it. I like the fact that events have meaning again, and their are actual goals to strive for. My only negative about it is the very quick turn around. 5 days is a very short time and if you are out of town for a weekend, it makes it more challenging to find time to hop on and complete the objectives.

I have a feeling though that these cards that people are missed through event programs will resurface later down the road, just not sure how.

The issue with Meter and most of the pitching options is you have to be really accurate. I used to use Analog pitching last year and it worked really well.. Even if it wasn't perfect, the program would be somewhat forgiving. This year, I feel that it has changed so much that unless it is almost perfect, the chances of it missing and going right down the middle are pretty high. This is so much so that I switched back to pinpoint..

Who knows if this is true or if we are just using really weak pitchers to start, but it does seem different

Is there anyway to alter or change the order that you see the information? I noticed that how I am hitting online and against the CPU with the card is the absolute last tab and I have to click all the way down to the bottom every time. This seems silly, especially when the tab right under attributes is where I can find the card... I would like to bring up the play stats to a closer level and wondering if they gave up the ability to modify the order... asking for a friend

They still don't count to your stats but do count towards pxp.