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  • 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…
  • It would be really interesting to see who would be left in the MVP rankings if they limited them to players who are actually eligible to collect rewards.  I finished in the top 10 in four different brackets today and couldn't collect anything, …
  • Thank you for the direct messages - a few tweaks were needed to the prime/legend costs at D6 and D10.  The attachment has been updated.  Please keep the feedback coming.
  • Repulls and trade in values are based on the same algorithm, so they have both been significantly adjusted.  I believe that a repull is treated as a trade-in of your existing player (say D9) and is replaced by a player one level higher (say D10).  S…
  • The increase in the repull values is incredibly valuable to anyone who regularly cycles WOH.  It means that you can either do fewer cycles to produce the same net return as last year, or do the same amount of cycles and bank a huge amount of excess …
  • I learned this the hard way last year, so here's a tip for the rookies out there - if you don't have enough PXP to cap your prime player, just trade them in after the event and move on.  Do not "work on a player", meaning slowly level them up as you…
  • My preference is to trade in bonus players as soon as an event is over.  Last year there seemed to be about a two month lag before a box re-appeared with a discounted price and elevated pull %s, but the players are so far behind the curve at that po…
  • I specifically keep 3.5 star pitchers - there are 51 of them.  Keeping batters is just annoying because they cog up your roster and I toggle batters in and out all the time.  At one point I was XP rich and decided to take them all to S10, so now I g…
  • I decided to embrace the TS this morning - I went from no skill upgrades on any pitchers to 8/8 on the eight D10 pitchers I've got.  My TS instantly jumped by 19,200, which really stroked my ego, but I haven't noticed any performance differences so …
  • I have an iPhone 10 XR - with fieldpass I clocked 50 games at 9:20 (started going cross-eyed), so roughly 18:40 for 100 games.  This was also with no ice wraps and no video boosts - went 50-0 - so any amount of paying attention to matchups would def…
  • I can't quite make sense of this, but the cash box DJ LeMahieu from a few weeks ago has the lowest hit rating on my team (with double 1st pitch skills at 8/8) and somehow he has the highest batting average and OPS on my team.  It feels like this ski…
  • I agree with @Tdub71, but would caveat that you should not spend any resources on pitcher skills.  Many top players believe that pitcher skills are irrelevant and have no impact on performance, they merely prop up your team strength.
  • The 4-star players in the boxes are unique, low level bonus players, which cannot be re-pulled from draft picks, so they are truly only valuable while the box is available.  I wouldn't recommend keeping those beyond each event.  I'm not sure how man…
  • Gents - the chart below was updated as of Monday and reflects the repull/trade-in value of players at each star rating and level.  Depending upon the base rating of your players, the numbers will vary a bit, but this should be directionally correct.…
  • @SonicTitan - cycling 15 times is not for the faint of heart.  Generally for a top team, it may take anywhere from 25-40 minutes per cycle, so its a significant time dedication.  As an example - yesterday I didn't have 8 hours of free time, so I bea…
  • @Rolypolyallday - opinions vary on this.  For guys that are focused on club points, they typically hold on to bonus players because in a month or two Glu will reuse the old boxes and those players will again have value for a brief period of time.  M…
  • The maximum level of your players is determined by your tier - so if you're in the gold tier, your players will be unable to be improved beyond G10.  There is a lot of consider when jumping from gold to platinum, so I'd recommend reading through som…
  • I've been called worse - but I'll take that as a compliment ;o)
  • @retirepujols - according to my math, the Monday Box II's have the best XP value of any box during the week.  Plus the Monday Fan Rewards are significantly better than the weekend ones from an XP perspective.  I got 99 free boxes by cycling FR 19 ti…
  • This strategy is especially effective for diamond players.  Just today I've earned 250 2nd round picks playing bonus games - which should translate into a good slug of XP.
  • @iratepirate - I am a hoarder of 3.5 star pitchers - I level them all to B10 and then rake in the XP from repulls.  I think 3.5 star guys are the best value because of how frequently you repull them, particularly because you get a fair number from 2…
  • My big, bold diamond move yesterday was just like the move Squintz put on Wendy Peffercorn - "I've been planning it for years", or in my case, one year ;o)  As of Friday morning I had a mediocre gold team, but by the end of day today I'll have a pre…
  • @dkarski87 - agreed. I had a very specific goal to get to diamond on cheap.  Today I plan to buy the VIP Elite subscription, fieldpass and then burn through about 200K gold.  If my math is right, I should be able to cap every bonus player today, my …
  • @Cleanupcrew - I was able to run through all of platinum over the weekend using an all gold team up through the P5 playoffs.  I used a three man starting rotation of 315-330 guys (no skills leveled) and two relievers 315-320 (no skills leveled), oth…
  • I know that the user block feature prevents you from facing a specific team in bonus games in the future.  Does it work for tournaments too?
  • @navyjack77 - just a thought, but you may want to change your favorite team to be the one where you have the pennants invested, that way your ML is that much stronger.  I hate the Yankees, but use them as my favorite team just so that ML and Babe bo…
  • You and I have similar teams and I'm getting the same results.  I have to manually play about 10 entries in order to hit the 100K plateau.  I'm chalking it up to having too many dead spots in our lineups.  In your first turn through your lineup, the…
  • In terms of skills, I'd recommend that you choose two skills that compliment one another - the goal is to have both skills active at the same time, with a lean towards choosing those that are active in your favorite game mode.  Do NOT select a skill…
  • @BigTuna421 - I validated your results using my go to binomial distribution applet.  I think this is the gambler's fallacy in action - many players probably assume that they've had bad luck if they buy 20 boxes and don't hit on a 5-star, when in rea…
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