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01-20-2019, 12:39 PM | #1 |
All Star Reserve
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Brea, CA
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5 Standard packs or 1 Gold pack?!?!
This could have been asked before so if it has, please share the link but what does the community do?
1 Gold Pack or test your luck with 5 standard packs? |
01-20-2019, 12:44 PM | #2 |
Minors (Double A)
Join Date: Jan 2019
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Well you might as well just buy a given gold off the AH rather than spend 5k on a gold pack. Most golds are worth less than 5k so it doesnt make economic sense to payu 5k for a gold pack in my opinion.
So generally people buy 1k packs from what I can tell. The odds of a diamond/perfect are the same in a 1k or 5k pack apparently. If you want the best of both words, go buy a gold you like from the AH for 1-3k, and then buy 2-3 1k packs. |
01-20-2019, 12:48 PM | #3 |
All Star Reserve
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Just realize that packs are based on luck. And the overall odds are against you getting lucky |
01-20-2019, 02:00 PM | #4 | |
All Star Reserve
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If what I did yesterday is any proof, go with the gold pack. Opened 5 standard packs. Highest card was a 66. ALL other packs had the lowest possible bronze in them (60) with 5 irons, although 2 of those packs actually had 2 (60) Bronze in them. Packs are a crappy lottery, but it's fun. Buying players on the AH is smarter, but is as fun as having a gaping head wound. |
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01-20-2019, 02:07 PM | #5 | |
Minors (Single A)
Join Date: Jun 2016
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I raised 10K in PP and bought 10 packs to build my team. I pulled 1 Gold, 0 Silver, 16 Bronze and the rest are rubbish. I was hoping this would generate enough PP each season but the quality of cards has likely ruined that for me. AH every single time. |
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01-20-2019, 02:53 PM | #6 | |
Minors (Double A)
Join Date: Jun 2008
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I can see both sides of the argument. I bought 5 standard packs and got nothing.. The one gold pack gave me a Dierker. Although buying the 5 packs gives you more chances for a perfect or diamond. |
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01-20-2019, 06:34 PM | #7 |
Minors (Single A)
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 85
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And the Dierker is worth about 2,000 on the AH, and is often available.
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01-20-2019, 06:42 PM | #8 |
All Star Reserve
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Brea, CA
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Ok ok, i've built my team with just packs so i haven't really gone into the AH to get players.
I just did however buy to guys in the AH for the first time so there we go. Thanks for the insight and feedback. |
01-20-2019, 06:48 PM | #9 | |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Land of Lincoln
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Based on my experience and my personal preference, I either bid/buy players directly from the auction house and I buy standard packs. The only PP I get is the PP my one team earns during a season. As a whole, I have had alot better "luck" when I buy standard packs. That doesn't mean that every pack I get, I get something useful or interesting. I have opened more cards than I can remember that were worth nothing to me however, it is alot easier to swallow defeat when spending 1000pp and getting nothing I can use, instead of spending 5000pp and getting nothing I can use. I auto resell any card valued 59 or lower and I don't play with any players from the 2018 Live or the Future Legend cards so I am more picky as to which cards I hope to get from opening packs or pursuing in the auctions. |
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01-21-2019, 12:20 AM | #10 |
Minors (Double A)
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01-21-2019, 06:10 AM | #11 |
Minors (Single A)
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01-21-2019, 10:31 AM | #12 |
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Between 5 normal packs and a gold pack, always take the 5 normal packs. But new teams can build a heck of a roster with 5,000 PP on the auction house, so it depends on the situation, really. 5k PP might get you four decent golds on the auction house, or a mix of golds and silvers; many good silvers barely go for 200 PP.
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01-21-2019, 11:20 AM | #13 |
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I have opened 121 regular packs including the starter packs, and I have tracked the value received for each of the 726 cards. I still have two of the cards, so I included those at the last 5 auction price.
I am counting each pack at a cost of 1,000 points (even the starter packs that were free) so my total investment was 121,000 points. I have received 138,228 points, or 1,142 points per pack. I haven't lost anything buying packs, and I continue to do it with all of the points that I earn. Someday, I will hit the jackpot. By the way, 679 of the 726 cards that I got were bronze or iron (93.5%) and 650 of those were auto-sold. Nearly all of the return came from 1 perfect (deGrom sold early for 30K) and 11 diamonds (sold for an average of 6,783 points). |
01-21-2019, 11:55 AM | #14 | |
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Very interesting results. Including Beta, I've only received two Perfects, Trout (Beta) and Sale, and I have only have been able to get one Diamond. I've been lucky in that I have some Bronze and Silver players put up consistently good numbers, every year better than some Perfects, Diamonds, or Gold players. |
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01-23-2019, 12:38 PM | #15 | |
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01-23-2019, 01:06 PM | #16 |
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Location: Indiana
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I probably got an extra 10-15K from the early sales like deGrom and Cravath over what I would have gotten today. So perhaps half of it. But I opened the first fifty packs in the first couple of days, so that was a strategy.
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01-23-2019, 02:29 PM | #17 |
Minors (Triple A)
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Posts: 202
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I started out with 5 Gold Packs to build out a "framework" for my roster. Only bought standard packs and AH hunting since then.
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