still have no idea how to actually get cards into my lineup
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 October 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a 17 game win streak
getting pujols pushed me over the top I guess
― dayo, Monday, 25 October 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i figured out the cards... SHEESH.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
well mostly - i have won cards that are visibly in my box, but mysteriously don't show up as options when i go to swap them in. ??
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
so when a player has like "+11" on his card what does that mean? i'll get like a Special card of somebody with +11 but then his stats on the back are crap.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the +11 (or whatever number) is just experience. So you can draw the card of an experienced loser, it doesn't necessarily mean they're any good.
― Z S, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Same with special, rare, etc - you can draw the "special" form of a really shitty player (in fact, you will, repeatedly)
― Z S, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
And the point of a Special or Rare card is that you can level it up more?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
TBH it seems like level-ups really don't increase the stats that much.. seems worth it to just wait for a better card to be awarded to you, or create one.
I have a feeling this would all make more sense if I'd ever played Magic The Gathering.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
You can level them up more, yep, I think. The problem is that it's also more expensive to level them up, which is totally annoying.
― Z S, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I just buy all the extra points.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
What do you mean?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Leave my points alone!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
If you go to the card box, then shop you can do an in app purchase of more points. 150000 for 7.99. Also get packs of level up and combo cards.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
JUST SAY NO TO PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING MICROTRANSACTIONS
― "Anus Landlord": A little rough, but good. (jamescobo), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It does seem a little like cheating.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG you guys I just had a crazy thought:
multiplayer.
Laaaaaaaag
― Z S, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah :(
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not cheating, it's free market baseball. A true simulation.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha there should be like a salary cap or something
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
protip: since there is no defensive substitution, if a defensively weak player gets on base later in the game, sub him with a pinch runner who will also take his spot in the field. not as intuitive but does the trick.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i have done that!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i also am stealing bases at will - i take off whenever the fuck i feel like it. been thrown out like once. it fucks with my swing though. i haven't come close to throwing anyone out myself, so i guess it evens out.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't steal bases but then again my team's avg running speed is like a D. I am 19-15 in my season so far and that puts me wayyyy back in third place in the AL east (BOS is like 25-8 already and NYY are not far behind them) (I picked the Jays because Canada... bad call I suppose) (not that it makes a difference because I just get cards and replace my whole team except Hill, Wells and Lind)
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm first in batting and ERA and wayyy near the bottom in RBI and every other metric. basically it's my shitty baserunning, same reason i have 12-hit games where i score 2 runs. i'm hovering around .500.
i dunno what other folks' strategies are but any cards i get that are worse than my current lineup i combine whenever i get the chance, in the hopes of getting a better one.
still no idea how to "boost" the combining process.
i've bought exactly one booster, for 2000 points, and it was crap. basically just keeping my dudes, all at level 3, and hoping for some good luck on the card front. card levelup seems kind of pointless when thousands of points gain you one measly point of stat improvement. i've got a manager who gives me plus 5% so that seems pretty good..
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i bought the US version hee hee
i am currently killin it - got a complete game out of beckett last night
question: you guys are playing on "normal" right? i am, but i'm sort of wondering if maybe it's too easy. i went through the twins like a scythe through sausage
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 November 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm playing on hard, it got really easy after my lineup got stacked
― dayo, Friday, 5 November 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel maybe they cut the difficulty down in the latest update? i dunno though I split my time between trainyard and drop7 these days
hmm I guess I'm stuck. just won a 2-1 squeaker. if I keep winning everything guess I'll need to start over on hard.
it chafes my goolies that player cards don't indicate rightie or lefty!! fuck
also that I can't check a baserunner's speed rating
any opinions on which coaches or cheerleaders are worthwhile? no idea what the diff is between "card +3%" and "stat +3%" tbh
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 November 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you can check a baserunner's speed rating, it's on the card
I use the batting cards, bat CON and bat EYE, think bat EYE increases your chances of getting hits? dunno
― dayo, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
once the dude's on base his card isn't available though
pretty sure CON is likelihood of contact and EYE is likelihood of extra-base hit
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
could also stand for CONCENTRATION...or CONTINENT...or CONNOR...
― dayo, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
where is the setting for normal/hard ? am into my 2011 season and my roster is p stacked, 11-2 so far but 3 of those are either walk-off or extra inning wins. is hard considerably harder?
― johnny crunch, Friday, 5 November 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The setting for normal/hard only appears when you're first setting up your league season.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 November 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hate hate HATE that you can't tell if someone's a rightie or leftie by looking at their card
still haven't thrown anyone out
after a storming start to my season (18-4) the pendulum is starting to move the other way - toronto has handed me my ass in back to back games. i got c.c. sabs somehow but he lasted two innings.
lolz the other night when a 100mph fastball blew by me, thrown from the immortal grip of... darren oliver
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 November 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracer, do you think you're overstating the importance of LH/RH batters vs. RH/LH pitchers? Cuz if you pay attn to the player "attributes", you'll see some LH that are "lefty killers" and vice versa and of course the natural reverse which is intuitive (esp for you!). I think the game really doesn't dole out the advantage the way it occurs in real life. I've hit some of my longest, clutchiest, Jeterrific homeruns with LH batter facing LHP and vice versa, so much that I stopped even paying attn to it.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 November 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah i guess i shouldn't give a shit about that! especially when i'm able to play pedroia at 1B with no loss of fielding stats
the game is definitely catching up with me. getting some tough games these days. submarine relievers are killin me.
for some reason i always find myself playing the orioles. the phrase "suggest ban matt wieters" comes to mind frequently.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone figured out a good way to double switch btw?
"different stats for cheerleader cards even though they are the same" - that's a pro tip (??)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ you guys expecting MLB the show 2011 on your iphones
― swagl (dayo), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
not at all, i don't have the patience for that! i love the easy cartoon style of 9innings. still wanna double switch though.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 November 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
pinch-hit walkoff followed by a 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the halos; but I just got POO HOLES!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"Better luck next time!"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX, long time no talk. you ruined my life by introducing this addictive nonsense to me.
my batting & pitching:
http://i54.tinypic.com/r/5doylg.jpghttp://i54.tinypic.com/24e6fif.jpg
AND A QUESTION... I got this card at some point, my team is Toronto btw (not that you can tell from that lineup) and I got this... Aaron Hill card? The stats are nearly identical to my original, position's the same, and yet it says he plays for the Cubs and the picture is someone else. Who is the picture? WTF is going on?
http://i54.tinypic.com/4sh3rt.jpg
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna try that pitching lineup again.
http://i54.tinypic.com/5doylg.jpg
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
first season teixeira i got like halfway thru and he still dominated the HR charts, like 61 total? 10 ahead of the next guy. awesome. wolf has been way more dominant than his stats might make you think on account of being a lefty and a right-killer. haven't used kershaw yet, got him during the world series and he was on the rest-day in rotation for the first run of the second season (i am only 5 games into season 2). does the game get way harder when you hit season 2, btw?!
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i have had several 105mph heaters thrown for my team by matt cain...????????
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
nah it's not harder in season 2 (tho mine is still on easy -- if they let u upgrade btwn seasons go for it, i cant recall if it did or not)
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
also WOW & TEX's 117 power. never seen that card
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link