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07-29-2019, 11:19 AM | #182 |
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Apparently I misjudged the Oakland As mission that rewards the vida blue. Put a 94 Fingers up at what I thought was a high 50K price and it sold instantly! Always a bad feeling lol
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07-29-2019, 11:52 AM | #183 | |
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for any collection related card i do not put a BIN on it for the first time I put it out on AH. i will set the auction for usually 24 hours. this prevents any flippers from buying card if it is priced too low and reposting at a much higher price. if it doesnt sell the first time out then I put a BIN on it at the 7 day price. |
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07-29-2019, 11:58 AM | #184 | |
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btw, the new Quicksell now button scares the hell out of me...I just know I'm going to hit that on something really valuable by mistake. |
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07-29-2019, 12:00 PM | #185 | |
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plus it's a collection that requires 12/14 or similar and fingers is the highest rated card eligible so I didn't even think people would be going for it. Maybe someone was just desperate and there isn't really a market for it. Or I'll see it sell for 80K today. Oh well. Last edited by dkgo; 07-29-2019 at 12:02 PM. |
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07-29-2019, 01:26 PM | #186 |
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Rare cards do not necessarily have a bidding history that reflects their present value. There are real deals to be had on certain specific cards, especially if none have sold in the last 7 days.
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07-30-2019, 11:30 AM | #187 | |
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Eddie Plank was garbage for me too. Embarrassing PT story... I sold him. Then picked him up again later for another team. I had somehow forgotten I owned him. And he was garbage again! When I looked at his stats, it dawned on me he was on my other team. It was the same card! The person how purchased him didn't have any luck either... |
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07-30-2019, 11:48 AM | #188 |
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As someone who was (is?) thinking of completing the Oakland collection to get Plank, this is.... very distressing news!
Collections have really slowed down for my F2P team. I'm starting to get more pessimistic that I'll complete the two missions I'm working on. The cost of the collections is still marginally less than purchasing the reward outright, but the component cards have dried up .... and when they do show up (do I even need to say this?) they are priced at about 2-3x what I'm interesting in paying. Now maybe I'm just a cheap bastage, but seeing as to how I'm doing this on a mostly F2P team, I can't afford to splurge. So I've got to keep saving and saving (which is... not terribly engaging and also pretty boring!). There is another collection this team wanted to do, but I decided it would be more cost effective to purchase the reward card directly. Only now it seems fewer people are completing collections and putting the reward cards up (at least the one I want!). So I hope when it gets to that point I can find this card. I've also got a main "collections" team that I spend money on that just indiscriminately tries to finish collections, for the fun of completing collections. That team is working on the live collections now, and having much less trouble completing them (other than a general lack of PP to buy the diamonds I need). Last edited by Charlatan; 07-30-2019 at 11:58 AM. |
07-30-2019, 12:51 PM | #189 |
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I picked up Eddie Plank from someone that had used him as a starter with little success. I wanted him for the bullpen where he gets a 10-point boost in stuff. He has been very good as a long/middle reliever.
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07-30-2019, 01:22 PM | #190 |
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Do you recall what you paid for him? Just sitting at work here and got curious.
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07-30-2019, 01:50 PM | #191 | |
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And I never knew pitchers can get boosts in the bullpen (although I do use a lot of starters in the bullpen out of necessity on theme teams where I have limited pitcher options). |
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07-30-2019, 01:53 PM | #192 | |
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Note that you don't have to do this to get the "reliever bonus" - the game applies it automatically when you use a starter in a relief role. But I like to explicitly set the pitcher role so they show up in the proper place in the roster listing (and I do this for DHs too and other position players when I play them at their not-default positions). |
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07-30-2019, 01:54 PM | #193 |
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Here's my Eddie Plank data so far...
2035: 10 GS (no relief appearances) 57.2 IP, 5.77 ERA 1.72 WHIP, .377 BABIP, 0.6 HR/9, 2.7 BB/9, 5.0 K/9, 0.9 WAR 2036: 62 G (all as a reliever) 113.1 IP, 4.53 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, .314 BABIP, 0.7 HR/9, 4.0 BB/9, 7.3 K/9, 0.2 WAR 2037: 6 GS (back in the rotation) 41.2 IP, 3.89 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, .287 BABIP, 0.4 HR/9, 2.6 BB/9, 6.0 K/9, 1.0 WAR It seems that this SE Eddie Plank card ages like wine?
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07-30-2019, 03:31 PM | #195 |
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It seems that your sample size is too small.
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07-30-2019, 03:34 PM | #196 |
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It seems that I was making a joke. Perhaps went over your head?
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07-30-2019, 03:36 PM | #197 |
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Baseball ain't no joke.
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07-30-2019, 07:14 PM | #198 |
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Collection card prices are still WAAAAY over-priced, I am now committed seller
So I have pretty much given up on completing any but the easiest collections for my teams. The players are just way too expensive on the AH and things haven't cooled off the way I have expected them to. In fact, in many cases, it's gotten worse.
For example, the World Champion Phillies collection, which nets you 97 Tug Mcgraw RP. I had Steve Carlton on two of my teams --- bought him for less than 20k PP on both of them before collections came out. I spent WEEKS trying to find Ruthven (75) and Reed (76) at decent prices to complete collection --- without success. So I decided to sell. I put him on with a BIN of 40k for one of my teams (more than twice what I paid). He literally sold "in minutes". So I listed him for a BIN of 50k for my other team. It took longer ---- about 6 hours --- before somebody took the BIN. So what's interesting about that is that Tug McGraw (97) is actually "worse" than the 93 OVR Tug McGraw --- he is maybe worth 15k to 20k on the open market. I sold Carlton for 30k more than he is "worth" outside a collection when the entire collection nets a card less than that difference. Another collection I had been trying to complete was the "Putting the Balls in Play" collection, but anybody selling Nellie Fox (74) continue to price it for 4k and up (seven-day average at 4k, all-time average at 800 --- it was only a few hundred before collections came out). So I decided to look at the selling end of some of the pieces. Today I unloaded Moreno (62) --- worth maybe 50 PP before collections for 4000 BIN. I am just really mystified why people are overpaying so dramatically just to complete collections for so-so rewards.
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07-30-2019, 07:25 PM | #199 |
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I think collections are worth considering sometimes, but should be done strategically. Start with examining the reward card in the AH - make sure you actually want it - and then work backwards from there.
At least, it worked out for me that way with Lenny Dykstra and the Phillies collection. That card is putting up 5 WAR/season in perfect and cost me just 20k...quite a fair bargain. |
07-30-2019, 07:29 PM | #200 |
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To be clear, I am not saying that EVERY collection is overpriced. There are a handful of collections (what I referred to as "easy") that can be +EV even buying up the pieces. I am not going to mention here which ones --- but a clue is if almost all the pieces needed to complete the collection are live cards under 70 OVR. Those are so prevalent in packs that the supply is high enough to prevent them from getting too far out of whack.
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