I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

[berenjena]

I had more fun when I had Moustakas and Corey Dickerson in my lineup.
Now I have T. Williams, Anthony Rizzo, Cargo, George Brett...etc

With Cueto, Cole, DeGrom, Niekro...etc is just not as fun as trying to get a cheap pitcher with good stuff and dominating with them.

Or having Boexberger fool the living hell out of batters as my closer.

I've reach the 1950 rating mark with an 84 overall team and now that my team is stacked I can barely hand around 1800 mark. Is unreal.

It was thrilling to beat a team full of Diamonds and Legends and it felt so sweet. Now I'm just one of them.

I'm about to dump all my Gold Cards and go strictly with silver and bronze players at every position...I'm also taking my franchise guy out.
Screw my record and rating. I want to have fun again.

[baseballsim]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

Do you think the reason might be because you get better pitches to hit with the 84 team?

I can't seem to reach 1750 no matter what type of team I have. I think I should consider doing more quick pitching, bunting, and base stealing, lol.

[Spokker]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I hope they implement a budget for DD mode.

It would make lineup discussions more interesting.

[FindingTim]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I hope they implement a budget for DD mode.

It would make lineup discussions more interesting.

that's a great idea. I also wouldn't mind a mode where you can only play with players received in standard packs.

Honestly, I have more respect for opponents whose teams aren't loaded with stars. Last night my opponent had Billy Burns leading off (went 4-5) and Tim Cooney on the mound. Funny enough he dominated with Cooney, but I rallied against Aroldis Chapman in the 9th (I looked high fastball every pitch) and won in extras (312 foot cheapie homerun at Yankee Stadium).

It's just more fun to play a team that doesn't have Bryce Harper as a pinch hitter, and Trevor Rosenthal as their 6th inning guy.

But I doubt any opponents give two ****s if I "respect" them haha.

[ChaseB]

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Yesssss, yesssssssssss. I hope more and more people keep coming to this realization. I've found this to be true in every one of these "fantasy team" modes.

[Whiteboy311kn]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I see what you guys are saying, but it better never happen. I know it's stupid to spend extra money on packs but early on in the season i did. Do you think it's fair that i spend money to get some good players only to have limitations on who i can use? That would ruin the mode, they can make an alternative mode like maddens draft champions if you don't like playing star studded teams. Honestly my team (tho its all diamonds and legends, few gold pitchers, and dee gordon) can't hit crap. I can get a pitch down the middle and get GOOD timing with every hitter and i'll be lucky to even get hits in a lot of games. So it's not even truly and edge persay, idk just wouldn't feel right to start guys like burns or even a jd martinez when i have cards like harper, mcutchen, and kiner sittin there. Tho i rarely get rewarded with my good timing and perfect swings (low and in, i move the analog low and in and get GOOD timing just to swing and miss) It feels very rewarding to hit a bomb with harper than to back it up with one from trout, its rare for me, but awesome when it happens.

[ChaseB]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I see what you guys are saying, but it better never happen. I know it's stupid to spend extra money on packs but early on in the season i did. Do you think it's fair that i spend money to get some good players only to have limitations on who i can use? That would ruin the mode, they can make an alternative mode like maddens draft champions if you don't like playing star studded teams. Honestly my team (tho its all diamonds and legends, few gold pitchers, and dee gordon) can't hit crap. I can get a pitch down the middle and get GOOD timing with every hitter and i'll be lucky to even get hits in a lot of games. So it's not even truly and edge persay, idk just wouldn't feel right to start guys like burns or even a jd martinez when i have cards like harper, mcutchen, and kiner sittin there. Tho i rarely get rewarded with my good timing and perfect swings (low and in, i move the analog low and in and get GOOD timing just to swing and miss) It feels very rewarding to hit a bomb with harper than to back it up with one from trout, its rare for me, but awesome when it happens.

Oh yeah, just to be clear I don't think anybody is saying you shouldn't be able to use who you have. It's just it would be cool to have another mode that makes it so you have to build a team on some sort of budget rather than just go all studs. It's something I talked about in my video I did for OS a bit ago:

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[GSW]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

It would be fun if they had restrictions to unlock certain packs or more coins in H2H matches. Like only 1 legend...only bronze players one gold, etc.

I don't play DD much and when I do I have a decent team with no legends I think my best player might be Rizzo or Braun... and every time I hop online against a team full of Legends and All stars and knuckle ballers and sidearm throwers.

I'm not complaining i just don't see how thats really all that fun. It's more fun when i can actually beat those teams with my squad.

In any event i don't want to insinuate the mode isn't fun i think the card collecting/selling is fun, but I shouldn't have to assemble a star studded lineup in order to play people online.

[rushinplayallgame]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I dominate with joe kelly, for some reason everyone goes after the low changeup, my team sucks but it's awesome to beat someone with better players. I was just playing a guy with a cheap create a pitcher, diamond cards all over the field, and i worked him over with joe kelly. finally in the 10th inning of a 0 0 game, he throws a pass ball and i move terrance gore to 2nd, i do a hit and run on the next pitch and line it into center for the win, very satisfying.

my best player is hosmer, i would probably take someone over inciarte but for the most part, i just leave the team as is, it feels like I EARN the victorys this way.

[theu715]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

So I tried this last night. Kept one gold (Ryan Braun, since I'm the Hurricanes), one legend (Orel Hershiser, never used before), and my created player at catcher. The rest of the team was silver and under with my next highest rated guy as Eric Hosmer. While it WOULD be fun to play the mode without loading up the team, I can't find it fun when the person you're playing against (BlackCeasarNC ranked in the 1700's) who wants to bunt with two strikes and then steal constantly. I left a few hangers up that got turned into bombs, but it's just not fun playing against people that don't want to play regular baseball when you're under matched as far as players go. Ended up going back to my stacked team. Even if I lose to people that play that way with them, I don't feel bad since my team is loaded.

[ChaseB]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I just don't play people who bunt all the time. The ranking doesn't matter nearly enough to suffer through constant bunting and stealing. I just concede.

[FindingTim]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

I just don't play people who bunt all the time. The ranking doesn't matter nearly enough to suffer through constant bunting and stealing. I just concede.

The stealing is so frustrating. I have a knack for calling pitchouts at the right time, but they only work about 5% of the time (if that). The base-stealing in DD is royally screwed up.

The bunting though? That can be stopped.
You've probably noticed that practically every team has Dee Gordon.
When speedsters come up, hit 'down' on the D-Pad and switch to "bunt defense". It's really effective, especially with a third basemen like Arenado.

Also, pitching up and in to Dee Gordon works really well, generally.

[baseballsim]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

The stealing is so frustrating. I have a knack for calling pitchouts at the right time, but they only work about 5% of the time (if that). The base-stealing in DD is royally screwed up.

The bunting though? That can be stopped.
You've probably noticed that practically every team has Dee Gordon.
When speedsters come up, hit 'down' on the D-Pad and switch to "bunt defense". It's really effective, especially with a third basemen like Arenado.

Also, pitching up and in to Dee Gordon works really well, generally.

I've tried drag bunt defense at 3B but never "bunt defense". Will the 1B have enough time to cover the bag if he fields it? Another drawback to "bunt defense" is that it opens up a lot of holes. If the hitter is aware this defense is in place they will most likely get a basehit anyways - especially if they are a 'slap' hitter like Gordon.

[fister6172]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

Hey i have aj pierzinski 77 as a catcher and hes hitting 366 6 hr 45 rbi in 50 or so games

[FindingTim]

Re: I'll admit it. Playing with a star studded team in DD is not that fun.

you know how some guys just feel really comfortable to hit with, even though their ratings aren't great?

Give Justin Bour a shot. I looove hitting with him. He has replaced Chris Davis for now, who I am terrible with