Big Achievement

Mizzery · 04-04-2019, 03:29 PM

Logged into my iron team last night, saw I had a 10,000 PP game thanks to a 9,000 pt achievement for hitting 5 HR in ONE inning. Have to imagine that is one of the rarer achievements out there, having not seen that one before.

Since we are still in the early stages of PT 20, spent the points and bought 11 packs. Out of 66 players pulled, got 1 low live Diamond, 0 Gold, 4 silver and a bunch of Bronze and Iron.

This is one of those things about PT- ripping packs is fun, but as a strategy, it is not very effective and generally a terrible return on your investment.

However, the game depends on people spending PP and opening packs, since that is the primary source of AH supply. For those who are still playing PT 19, the AH dropped in supply and quality while prices rose almost overnight post the 20 launch, making it extremely difficult to improve teams still active in 19.

The sum of this situation is that I need to constantly remind myself that while fun, purchasing packs is bad, while simultaneously encouraging every other owner to inefficiently spend as much money as possible to rip as many packs as possible to make it as efficient as possible for me to upgrade my team in the AH.

As I tell my kids, don’t do as I do, do as I say...

CurlyKarkovice · 04-04-2019, 04:00 PM

Yeah unless you have a bunch of money to blow purchasing PP to open packs for the thrill of an occasional hit, manage those earned PP on upgrading your team needs. imo

Anyway awesome achievement! Details....Who were the players? How many runs were scored in the inning? Any grand slams? How many back to back? ETC

Charlatan · 04-04-2019, 04:01 PM

As someone who has an Auction House addiction.... thank you!

neugey · 04-04-2019, 04:55 PM

I actually haven't bought a pack yet. My plan thus far is to buy one basic pack a month, probably on the 22nd of each month to celebrate the anniversary of the PT20 launch day. The rest of my PP is being saved or spent on the AH.

Kushiel · 04-04-2019, 05:18 PM

Congrats on that achievement. Those big ones are few and far between.

I open packs one week and then the next week or 2 or 3 I use the AH for an upgrade. Then buy packs for a week again.

CurlyKarkovice · 04-05-2019, 02:13 PM

It's only 400PP but I love that they have achievement for throwing a Maddux. Complete Game in under 100 pitches.

atabakin · 04-05-2019, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by CurlyKarkovice

It's only 400PP but I love that they have achievement for throwing a Maddux. Complete Game in under 100 pitches.

It has to be a shutout as well.

Mizzery · 04-05-2019, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CurlyKarkovice

Yeah unless you have a bunch of money to blow purchasing PP to open packs for the thrill of an occasional hit, manage those earned PP on upgrading your team needs. imo

Anyway awesome achievement! Details....Who were the players? How many runs were scored in the inning? Any grand slams? How many back to back? ETC

Went back to see the details of that game, only to find another game against the same team where I earned 6,000 PP for scoring 27 runs, including one run every inning.

So how is this happening? Turns out the team has only six active players on their active roster- they've either made them all inactive, or sold the rest of them off.

I thought there were protections within the game software that prevented this from happening, but apparently not. I don't know when the team was gutted, but they are 35-82 in Iron, and I suspect teams have been feasting on them all year and generating significant levels of PP.

Doesn't make sense to tank when in Iron, so I'm not sure what's going on, but reported the team to the administrators.

OMGPuppies · 04-05-2019, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Mizzery

Logged into my iron team last night, saw I had a 10,000 PP game thanks to a 9,000 pt achievement for hitting 5 HR in ONE inning. Have to imagine that is one of the rarer achievements out there, having not seen that one before.

Since we are still in the early stages of PT 20, spent the points and bought 11 packs. Out of 66 players pulled, got 1 low live Diamond, 0 Gold, 4 silver and a bunch of Bronze and Iron.

This is one of those things about PT- ripping packs is fun, but as a strategy, it is not very effective and generally a terrible return on your investment.

However, the game depends on people spending PP and opening packs, since that is the primary source of AH supply. For those who are still playing PT 19, the AH dropped in supply and quality while prices rose almost overnight post the 20 launch, making it extremely difficult to improve teams still active in 19.

The sum of this situation is that I need to constantly remind myself that while fun, purchasing packs is bad, while simultaneously encouraging every other owner to inefficiently spend as much money as possible to rip as many packs as possible to make it as efficient as possible for me to upgrade my team in the AH.

As I tell my kids, don’t do as I do, do as I say...

You hit the nail on the head. I wish more people would bust packs because I am having trouble finding the guys I want on the auction house.

mcdog512 · 04-05-2019, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by OMGPuppies

You hit the nail on the head. I wish more people would bust packs because I am having trouble finding the guys I want on the auction house.

Free to Play for the win, right?

HRBaker · 04-05-2019, 09:22 PM

Buying packs is not financially sound - BUT - once you get into the higher levels and simply don't make the PPs you use to make, buying packs is the only way your going to land that perfect card..... at least until we see what the tournaments bring

mcdog512 · 04-05-2019, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by HRBaker

Buying packs is not financially sound - BUT - once you get into the higher levels and simply don't make the PPs you use to make, buying packs is the only way your going to land that perfect card..... at least until we see what the tournaments bring

Yup, that or dropping insane amounts of money.

sharknut · 04-06-2019, 12:02 AM

I had Joe Gordon knock in 10 runs with 3 HR's and a double for a total of 5660 points in one game. Bought a 5000 player straight off, want to get out of bronze, 84-54 on the year so far.

Caedus · 04-06-2019, 11:15 AM

Got 3,000 points for a run in every inning. It's a lot but you'd think it would be worth more for how rare that is. I can't remember ever having seen that in dozens of seasons of single player, or seeing it happen in real life.

daves · 04-06-2019, 12:14 PM

2,500 for 4 strikeouts in an inning. LOL, definitely hard to get 4 outs in an inning.

mikezone13 · 04-07-2019, 06:27 AM

Khris Davis got 5,000 PP for a 7 game HR streak for me, then followed it up with 1,000 for a 10 game RBI streak - both across the same set of games.

2002halos · 04-07-2019, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Mizzery

This is one of those things about PT- ripping packs is fun, but as a strategy, it is not very effective and generally a terrible return on your investment.

Not necessarily true if you have the money to leverage packs...

What I mean is, you buy 100 packs... Odds are decent that you'll get 1 to 2 cards that can bring you in more than 100k PP.

1. Sell them on the Auction House
2. Use the points to buy more packs
3. Identify the cards that will allow you to repeat this

Rinse and repeat...

The hard part of this strategy is resisting the temptation to keep the best cards you pull. But eventually you can make enough to skim some of the points or keep some of the cards... Provided you don't hit a really unlucky streak of no good pulls.

Over the long haul of PT 19 with one of my teams, I bought 425 packs with purchased PP. From the cards in those packs that I sold, by cycling this way, I opened and sold an additional 873 packs. I also spent 264,000 PP on the Auction House from those cards instead of buying another 264 packs I could have bought. And that doesn't even count that I kept a Lajoie card worth over 100k.

So I turned 425,000 PP into a value of over 1.2 million PP.

Mainly by opening packs.

To be fair, with another team, I only broke even with that strategy.... Mainly because I was keeping more of the cards, trying for a full set.

Charlatan · 04-07-2019, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by mikezone13

Khris Davis got 5,000 PP for a 7 game HR streak for me, then followed it up with 1,000 for a 10 game RBI streak - both across the same set of games.

That's crazy - I had to bench him because he forgot how to hit in Silver league!

Warhawk · 04-07-2019, 12:33 PM

3,000 for a 41 save streak, before blowing a save in the playoffs.

And we actually ended up winning the blown save that ended it anyway, with 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th.

Warhawk · 04-07-2019, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Charlatan

That's crazy - I had to bench him because he forgot how to hit in Silver league!

Dude hit .197 for me in Bronze and .257 for me in Silver, no idea how.

04-04-2019, 03:29 PM	#1
Mizzery Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2019 Posts: 99	Big Achievement Logged into my iron team last night, saw I had a 10,000 PP game thanks to a 9,000 pt achievement for hitting 5 HR in ONE inning. Have to imagine that is one of the rarer achievements out there, having not seen that one before. Since we are still in the early stages of PT 20, spent the points and bought 11 packs. Out of 66 players pulled, got 1 low live Diamond, 0 Gold, 4 silver and a bunch of Bronze and Iron. This is one of those things about PT- ripping packs is fun, but as a strategy, it is not very effective and generally a terrible return on your investment. However, the game depends on people spending PP and opening packs, since that is the primary source of AH supply. For those who are still playing PT 19, the AH dropped in supply and quality while prices rose almost overnight post the 20 launch, making it extremely difficult to improve teams still active in 19. The sum of this situation is that I need to constantly remind myself that while fun, purchasing packs is bad, while simultaneously encouraging every other owner to inefficiently spend as much money as possible to rip as many packs as possible to make it as efficient as possible for me to upgrade my team in the AH. As I tell my kids, don’t do as I do, do as I say...

04-04-2019, 04:55 PM	#4
neugey All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 805 Blog Entries: 39	I actually haven't bought a pack yet. My plan thus far is to buy one basic pack a month, probably on the 22nd of each month to celebrate the anniversary of the PT20 launch day. The rest of my PP is being saved or spent on the AH. __________________ Online OOTP League Play: PBA - Cincinnati Reds MLM - Baltimore Orioles

04-04-2019, 05:18 PM	#5
Kushiel All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Deep in the Heart of Texas Posts: 1,697	Congrats on that achievement. Those big ones are few and far between. I open packs one week and then the next week or 2 or 3 I use the AH for an upgrade. Then buy packs for a week again. __________________ *Favente Deo supero* Last edited by Kushiel; 04-04-2019 at 05:22 PM.

04-05-2019, 09:22 PM	#11
HRBaker Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,088	Buying packs is not financially sound - BUT - once you get into the higher levels and simply don't make the PPs you use to make, buying packs is the only way your going to land that perfect card..... at least until we see what the tournaments bring __________________

04-06-2019, 12:14 PM	#15
daves Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,634	2,500 for 4 strikeouts in an inning. LOL, definitely hard to get 4 outs in an inning. Attached Images __________________

04-04-2019, 04:00 PM	#2
CurlyKarkovice Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 231	Yeah unless you have a bunch of money to blow purchasing PP to open packs for the thrill of an occasional hit, manage those earned PP on upgrading your team needs. imo Anyway awesome achievement! Details....Who were the players? How many runs were scored in the inning? Any grand slams? How many back to back? ETC

04-04-2019, 04:01 PM	#3
Charlatan All Star Starter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Leesburg, VA Posts: 1,491	As someone who has an Auction House addiction.... thank you!

04-05-2019, 02:13 PM	#6
CurlyKarkovice Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 231	It's only 400PP but I love that they have achievement for throwing a Maddux. Complete Game in under 100 pitches.

04-06-2019, 12:02 AM	#13
sharknut All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 786 Blog Entries: 1	I had Joe Gordon knock in 10 runs with 3 HR's and a double for a total of 5660 points in one game. Bought a 5000 player straight off, want to get out of bronze, 84-54 on the year so far.

04-06-2019, 11:15 AM	#14
Caedus Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 95	Got 3,000 points for a run in every inning. It's a lot but you'd think it would be worth more for how rare that is. I can't remember ever having seen that in dozens of seasons of single player, or seeing it happen in real life.

04-07-2019, 06:27 AM	#16
mikezone13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 533	Khris Davis got 5,000 PP for a 7 game HR streak for me, then followed it up with 1,000 for a 10 game RBI streak - both across the same set of games. __________________ AFBL New Jersey Athletics FOD Boston Shamrocks GLBL Milwaukee Eagles HRBL Toronto Stags PBF Commish only ABL (old SBC) Commish only

04-07-2019, 12:33 PM	#19
Warhawk Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 437	3,000 for a 41 save streak, before blowing a save in the playoffs. And we actually ended up winning the blown save that ended it anyway, with 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th.