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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 or tournaments I think its a benefit, as I've regularly seen my scoring jump up…
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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 - not too shabby. The tourney box in particular is a great source of…
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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 25 cycles without too much stress. Good luck cyclers!
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@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.
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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 I don't have another prime with two active skills with the bases empty. I…
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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!
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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 continued to be irrelevant. Still rocking two 345s in my starting nine, Freeman and…
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@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.
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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 update for that.
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Doh! Re-posted to include an upgrade costs tool that it pulls from - give that version a try.
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@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 at 355/400, so the results will differ over time as trade-in values increase…
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@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 effectively you're paying 840 XP to increase the value of your repull by about…
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@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-prime players. If you happen to be a VIP, you may want to consider buying…
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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 Werewolf had a great run...
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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.
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@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 D10 guys. I've tried to be more intentional in buying fieldpass (nothing…
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@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 hordes of diamond players donating to random clubs everyday after 5PM. Cash…
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@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 the best XP generating box of the year. Note that the current 20 box limit…
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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!
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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 walked away with about 3 million XP, which I eventually used to cap several…
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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, so why include me at all? It really just hurts players like you.
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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.
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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). So the XP you get for a repull is always equal to the trade-in value of the…
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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 PXP/LXP. IMO this is the single most player beneficial thing that has come…
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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 get more PXP - this is never a good idea, because by the time you get him…
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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 point that even if you pull the top guy from the box, he won't be of any use…
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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 get 1,700+ XP with every repull. By cycling D6 the second round picks stack…
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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 far.
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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 definitely slow me down.
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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 skill vastly outperforms what it should do (which is not much). Does anyone…
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