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  • @Houmy -  RISP is not a quality skill for WOH, so I would immediately cross Griffey, Davis and Carter off your list.  Between Porter and Kruk, neither would be ideal for 5.10 because they don't start with two skills turned on, but because you'll hav…
  • I had the pleasure of attending the VIP council event as well and was very happy with the Glu team's attention to detail and willingness to make player favorable changes.  In addition to the issues already discussed, below are a few others that come…
  • This year's VIP council consisted of 16 members, which was a larger number than last year due to the remote nature of the event.  The members were all chosen by Glu, with several being carryovers from the prior year.  The selection criteria are…
  • At the VIP council event we discussed the final weekend CVC timing issue with Glu.  The discount accolade is tethered to the event start/stop times, so they are unable to extend the timing on that, but they were amenable to changing that final CVC r…
  • Last week's Judge box was rough - 0.5% odds at 500 gold a pop.  Irvin is a total bargain compared to Judge.  I got lucky and nabbed Irvin via EB but definitely waiting until the weekend to level him.  
  • I have no evidence of the following idea, but my personal experience and countless stories tell me that it may be true.... The Fall Classic box gives you an 11.2% probability to pull a prime or better.  Joc has a 4.3% individual probability, s…
  •  @TheFullMonte - with a 60% weekend discount, your cash outflow going B1-P10 is about 119K and the balls generated are worth about 389K, so net cash generation of about 270K.  With no discounts the net generation is only about 91K. 
  • No, I don't experience the death freeze.  My biggest irritation is when live boost kicks in and my APs become less reliable.  I'm guessing the death freeze primarily impacts gold and silver teams, but interested in other's thoughts.  
  • I hear you, that's a lot of play time.  This year it feels like WOH is not about if you can beat it, it's more about how fast you can beat it (all about volume).  I have all my bats at 20/20 so I can fly through WOH royale in 10-12 minutes by j…
  • This is likely a minority view because I play too often, but for diamond teams I think it makes sense to cycle cap the prime reward regardless of whether you want the player.  25 cycles should produce close to 300K PXP (assuming you go S10, G10), 14…
  • I can't claim credit for the data, but I half agree with the conclusion based on my experience.  In WOH I believe the live boost is absolutely a negative - odds of winning seem to go down whether you auto or manual play.  When autoplaying BGs o…
  • Just to build on this - the cash outflow to level a BXP player from B1 to D10 is 438K, while the balls generated can be turned into roughly 1.4M cash via loyalty boxes (depending on club level), so you have a net cash profit of about 1M per player -…
  • The chart below shows the changes in pitcher stuff rating between Royale last Wednesday and what we're seeing today.  Most of the changes were to Level 4 and they made 5.10 easier by adding runners on second and third.  I was able to get through my …
  • @trojanman999 and @Thekid84 - attached is an updated version that incorporates skill leveling.  Note that PXP and LXP upgrade costs are all the same.  Please let me know if you have any feedback.
  • It feels like upgrades are becoming more important.  I have hitting coach/trainer/clutch at 100/100/85 and used Riley (12/12 skills, 90 pennants) on 5.10 - he was a perfect 20 for 20.  5.7 gave me fits though, I lost there a handful of times because…
  • Great points on the power rating - do care about it some but its more of a tie breaker for me if I have two guys with the same hit rating.  Redick is especially terrible because he has the vs LHP skill as a left handed batter - yuck!   
  • Maybe the worst offender of the year was Monday's "prime" Perez - he was basically a mediocre BXP player that required PXP to level.  I never look at max ratings anymore, I only care about hit rating and skills, especially since Slugfest has continu…
  • @KCTribe - if it were me, I wouldn't level Conforto.  You're stacked in the OF and he'd only be a marginal upgrade from your Verdugo.  He's a great WOH bat, but WOH doesn't seem to be terribly important to most players at the moment.
  • I got some feedback about the data validation cells not working - please use the attached instead.  Also noted that the trade-in values are not perfectly in line with today's 400 max Soto.  If someone can send me a better data set I will happily upd…
  • Doh!  Re-posted to include an upgrade costs tool that it pulls from - give that version a try.
  • @whynot - attached is a repull optimizer that will help with these types of decisions.  The key variables are the player type (i.e. BXP, PXP, LXP), expected number of pulls, and current discount % (if any).  The trade-in values are based on players …
  • @Underdogs - I'd advise against the S10 approach.  As an example: leveling from G1 to G2 costs 840 XP (with a 40% discount) - your repull value from G1-G2 is about 5,200 XP, when you could have gotten closer to 20,000 XP by repulling at D10.  So eff…
  • @iratepirate - if it were me, I'd wait until Friday, find a 30% discount club and then go crazy with the weekend boxes - stacked with the two weekend fieldpasses, the 60% discount on players is HUGE and I imagine you'd be able to cap all of the non-…
  • Does anyone have any test data on whether 1st pitch has changed behavior in bonus games and tournies too?  I'm assuming it has, which would move 1st pitch into the scrap heap of skill options along with bases loaded, bases empty, two outs, etc.  The…
  • Beware - a guy in my club used this feature to auto-level a player to P10 - the resource calculations were right but he received NO balls!  I would not recommend using this feature until this is fixed.
  • @RodFarva - you just perfectly described my approach.  Rather than spending a ton of money like I did last year, I've become a grinder and am having a lot of fun with it.  I've spent very little this year and have a solid, but not amazing squad of D…
  • @navyjack77 - below is a snip from the charts thread.  If your goal is solely to get the most blue cash out of your loyalty points then silver loyalty boxes are the smart play.  The ability to get loyalty boxes at each tier everyday is why there are…
  • @iratepirate - I was able to take advantage of this deal before they put the box limit on it.  I leveled each guy to P10 and then repulled them to D10 - made about 19K XP on all subsequent D10 repulls.  I netted about 2.5 million XP - so I'd say its…
  • Thanks @Tdub71 - as an avid reader and seldom poster on the forums, it felt very validating to know that forum participation is being monitored and is appreciated by Glu.  Thanks to everyone on the forums for all your strategies and insights!
  • An alternative to building up a huge amount of XP, is to build up a gold stack (like the OP has).  I jumped from gold to diamond with only about 300K XP, but by spending about 190K gold on a Monday.  I capped every bonus player that day at D10 and w…
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