Is this even possible?

[Dag_BoomStick]

So the game is still semi new. I would think that it wouldn't be very difficult to field a team full off diamonds already. Maybe not for Thisbe guy though. I can't tell you who it is or his roster bc like most games it went to review and I can't see it in my game history yet. On his entire team he only had like 3 high golds and the rest were diamonds. On top of this anything close to a fastball even on the edge of the zone was crushed. Felt like he was using directional and power swinging on almost every pitch. In the end I only lost 7-4 but I didn't think it would be possible to have this stacked of a team this soon unless the guy paid for te am. From what I remember most were be cards but some legends.

[SigmundFraud]

Is this even possible?

Just played a guy with a team exactly like what you described. Lindor, Votto, Bryant, 99 overall custom player, diamond joey bats, Cano, Posey, Yelich. Brought Correa and Pedroia off the bench to pinch hit. Starter was Darvish. Bullpen had chapman, betancea, osuna, miller etc... he was TRASH. Clearly just using directional hitting trying to pull flyball homers. I abused him with Steven matz, don't see how it's any fun to spend likely $500+ just to go online and press 1 button over and over.

[Idgachuck]

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yeah probably a kid who stole moms credit card or a steamer. watched some stream where the viewers donated like $300 so he would do a huge pack opening. don't understand that stuff but whatever. at least in this game you can beat the stacked team if you're good.

[SigmundFraud]

Is this even possible?

yeah probably a kid who stole moms credit card or a steamer. watched some stream where the viewers donated like $300 so he would do a huge pack opening. don't understand that stuff but whatever. at least in this game you can beat the stacked team if you're good.

I just went through and looked at the stub values for the guy's team, it came out to about $730... add in the price of the game= almost $800... all I can say is wow.

[Syce]

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I just went through and looked at the stub values for the guy's team, it came out to about $730... add in the price of the game= almost $800... all I can say is wow.

for us its like wow someone spent that much on a video game. but who knows maybe the guy is a millionaire and 800 bucks is toilet paper to him lol.

[yelch]

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To each his own. I work a regular paying job and have spent $100 on the game and stubs, and will probably spend $40 more once my next paycheck arrives.
So, someone a bit better off than myself, with a better job and/or no kids to support, or perhaps a youtuber/twitcher, I completely see the $800 not being a big deal.
It at least saves him dozens of hours of grinding and playing the market by reselling same cards over and over.

[Syce]

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To each his own. I work a regular paying job and have spent $100 on the game and stubs, and will probably spend $40 more once my next paycheck arrives.
So, someone a bit better off than myself, with a better job and/or no kids to support, or perhaps a youtuber/twitcher, I completely see the $800 not being a big deal.
It at least saves him dozens of hours of grinding and playing the market by reselling same cards over and over.

exactly. thats the thing, a lot of us will complain about someone having all the best cards right away. but we all dont know who the person is or how well off that person may be.

[HipsterJacks]

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Was it this player? Team name is the Wideawakes and the player's username started with m, but I am not going to post the rest.



I played him and lost 9-6. Granted, I got my last two runs at the end of the game while facing a trio of Britton, Jansen, and Chapman. His Grienke starter was the 97 overall from the captain's store last year, not the 88 Grienke from the live series.

He hit two homers with his 99 overall created player Mickey Mantle, both on pitches way out of the zone (one almost head level). His lineup also included Jackie Robinson, and his avatar was the Team Collector badge that means you've completed all 30 team collections.

It was a little ridiculous but I'm not bashing the guy TOO hard. It was a fun game and I was actually leading for a while. He didn't pull very much cheap stuff. That said, I could tell he wasn't really any better than I am (I am pretty average), but it felt like an impossible game to win the whole time.

I remember having a team with lots of diamonds at the end of 16' and people would message me accusing me of buying my team, which wasn't really true. I worked the market all year just to get those 4 or 5 diamonds. The show 17' just came out though, and I can't imagine the kind of messages this guy must be receiving.

[BalootheBear]

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Just played this guy. He decided he had had enough after my offensive onslaught against Chapman. All but two Diamonds. Wonder how much he spent?

[truth72]

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I made a post on the second day, with almost the exact same thing.... The second day! 7 Diamonds and 2 Golds.


Some people out there are just willing to spend money I suppose, listen I have a great job and do fine financially, however I just can not find it in myself to spend money on a video game. To me buying a team almost feels like cheating (if that makes sense). Someone once gave me a $50 best buy card that I ended up buying PS4 money with and spending in NHL 16 to buy players and packs. Something about that felt off.


To each his own, as long as someone can afford to spend that kind of money and wants too, I'm not going to hate. But I really hope these dudes that are shelling out hundreds (maybe thousands) aren't putting themselves or their families out.

[MetsFan16]

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I played someone with all diamonds and 99 OVR DD Player.

Trout, Bryant, Arrieta, Jansen, Britton, Votto, Seager and co.

Beat him 3-1

Most satisfying win ever.

I've realized that people with these stacked teams are often time not very skilled players. And the only reason they have good records is because of their roster.

[ChaseB]

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I played someone with all diamonds and 99 OVR DD Player.

Trout, Bryant, Arrieta, Jansen, Britton, Votto, Seager and co.

Beat him 3-1

Most satisfying win ever.

I've realized that people with these stacked teams are often time not very skilled players. And the only reason they have good records is because of their roster.

Yeah even near the end of the year, I rarely run into an all-diamond player who is very good. It's just part of maybe trying to make the game more fun for them is at least being able to compete on some level if the team is stacked.

[beardedaussie]

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Played a guy last night who had all diamonds in the lineup and on the bench. I don't think he even played a game yet. Trash player but killed my silver and bronze pitchers. Didn't matter where i threw the pitch his hitters got bat to everything. Come across a few stacked diamond teams already in the first league, it would be more enjoyable if match making was based on team overall ratings.

[Dag_BoomStick]

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I haven't played as much online h2h this year compared to years past at this point. Partly bc of all the side challenges but half the teams I'm seeing are stacked diamond teams with super rare legends that I can't see how you could have yet and most of these teams have a losing record. Like just now beat a guy that was like 93 overal team 6-2 and he had a record of 14-33. Is there some kind of hack out there that ppl are using.

[ChaseB]

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I haven't played as much online h2h this year compared to years past at this point. Partly bc of all the side challenges but half the teams I'm seeing are stacked diamond teams with super rare legends that I can't see how you could have yet and most of these teams have a losing record. Like just now beat a guy that was like 93 overal team 6-2 and he had a record of 14-33. Is there some kind of hack out there that ppl are using.

There are more Legend cards you can get via Challenges etc. which I think is adding to the high-level teams. If there's a major glitch, I'm not aware of it right now. This is just a game you can grind more than in years past to put together a pretty crazy roster relatively quickly.