Season 1 (2020) - Now It Counts... - Page 2

Orion · 03-23-2020, 08:39 PM

Well, I ripped 100 packs for Angelfire as it seems to be a great way to stock up on cards to do collections. It was going really poorly (I always have crap luck with packs), pulled a 94 Flahery, 93 Snell, and a 91 Andy Messersmith (An Angel! Hallelujah!). Then on pack #93 I pulled my first perfect EVER. I've opened at least 300 packs so boy was I due. At least I finally got to see the animation. It was just a Live Scherzer but still made the 100 packs decent instead of a letdown. We also did get really lucky with pulling a bunch of historical 69s and 79's. I already have half of a pretty solid bronze tourney team.

Orion · 03-23-2020, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Westheim

Building the Mets a bit. The goal is to have at least 21 Metsies or honorary Mets (pre-1958 Dodgers and Giants) on the roster, and at most five others.

Well, given that I started out with zero cards fitting the description and I wasn't keen on picking up every old iron card out there, things have gone rather slowly, but I am adding a new card here and there. Just now picked up an (88) 1978 Snapshot John Stearns!

This is all I got as far as Mets and honorary Mets are concerned:

SP (84) 1920 Leon Cadore (Robins)
MR (62) 1947 Harry Taylor (Dodgers)
C (61) Live Tomas Nido
C (88) 1978 John Stearns
3B(DH) (71) 1986 Ray Knight
SS (67) 1989 Kevin Elster
SS (60) 1956 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers)
RF(3B) (83) Live Jeff McNeil

I was thinking of you when I opened my starter packs for Taos. I got a whole mess of Mets...

scott1964 · 03-23-2020, 09:14 PM

Never seen this one before.

Orion · 03-23-2020, 09:34 PM

Hanky spanky!

waittilnextyear · 03-23-2020, 11:50 PM

The Frogs were placed in R82 for the inaugural week of PT league play.

Looking around the league, we stick out like the sorest of thumbs and it would take a Miracle on Ice level upset to not win this league. At present, it's quite the event when losing a single game. We're 24-1. Not to fear, to all those raring to gripe about whales, because I won't be doing any funny stuff to stay in low levels for more than a week per level. Just wanted to climb the entire ladder.

Attached a pic so you can see what we're working with. The team is mostly made of collection mission rewards, with a few fortuitous pack pulls sprinkled in.

Good luck to everyone in your race to the top!

X3NEIZE · 03-23-2020, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by waittilnextyear

The Frogs were placed in R82 for the inaugural week of PT league play.

Looking around the league, we stick out like the sorest of thumbs and it would take a Miracle on Ice level upset to not win this league. At present, it's quite the event when losing a single game. We're 24-1. Not to fear, to all those raring to gripe about whales, because I won't be doing any funny stuff to stay in low levels for more than a week per level. Just wanted to climb the entire ladder.

Attached a pic so you can see what we're working with. The team is mostly made of collection mission rewards, with a few fortuitous pack pulls sprinkled in.

Good luck to everyone in your race to the top!

That Connor card is amazing... I debated between Connor and Cap Anson, I went with Cap mainly due to already very heavy on the lefty dept. That said, I think Connor is one of the best cards in the game, just like PT20.

Yeah you should have very little problems in your league... I have at least some competition in my Iron League.

waittilnextyear · 03-24-2020, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by X3NEIZE

That Connor card is amazing... I debated between Connor and Cap Anson, I went with Cap mainly due to already very heavy on the lefty dept. That said, I think Connor is one of the best cards in the game, just like PT20.

Yeah you should have very little problems in your league... I have at least some competition in my Iron League.

Roger Connor struck out zero times today. I think I'll continue to play him!

skep · 03-24-2020, 12:14 AM

We're through Monday and things are looking like this :

Red Bandits 14-12 0GB
Mostly silver now with a few golds mixed in. Was getting killed in the iron tournaments but now can hang in the silver.

Watermelon Bandits 13-13 7.5GB
King Felix leading the parade of rag-tags behind him.

Pink Bandits 19-6 0GB
Ellis Kinder is a beast, but he's always tired. Turned a 10k tourney win and some nice achievements into a few gold pieces, namely Ray Durham.

Caedus · 03-24-2020, 12:17 AM

Had a bit of luck finding historical diamonds on Hollywoo, pulled my third in maybe 30 packs tonight.

None of them are particularly great (93 Peak Tim Wallace, 94 All-Star Max Lanier), but my third is an interesting Mets closer, 99 Peak Armando Benitez. 142/81/75 with an eye popping 151 stuff against RHB. Threw him in the auction for an absurd amount we’ll see if anyone bites.

My teams are suck and will suck for months so this was nice to see. Hoping Hollywoo doesn’t get promoted from Rookiee but we’ll see.

Marleigh · 03-24-2020, 01:59 AM

Paragon City Heroes started 20-6, a 7 game league, each division has at least one collection heavy team which is leading the way, very unbalanced league so far. Lots of Bagwells and Maddux dominating stats (i don't have either yet)

Pachuca Pack Rats 22-5, we had a decent all gold rotation and BIll Bonham decided to go on a tear striking out 10+ in multiple games (including 16 in one) racking up some PP, so i opened a couple of packs and got Eugenio Suarez and Anthony Rizzo in the same pack, giving me more than enough bats to lead the league in almost every offensive category. George Springer is the star of the team so far hitting .366 with 10HR

Lowdown Lugnuts 16-9 ''I'm going to build the team around Frank Robinson'' Mike Sweeney ''hold my beer'' .380 7HR. Aside from those 2 we have very little power, but a ton of d and bronze/silver pitching and decent speed. So we are 1st in runs against, stolen bases and zoen rating/efficiency

BigRed75 · 03-24-2020, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Orion

Hanky spanky!

About time there's a high diamong Hank Greenberg. I've always thought he was underrated in the first two versions of PT.

mcdog512 · 03-24-2020, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRed75

About time there's a high diamong Hank Greenberg. I've always thought he was underrated in the first two versions of PT.

His PT 20 card hits pretty dang good. I believe for a while I platooned him against Lefties and used him in Diamond tourneys.

bailey · 03-24-2020, 07:41 AM

A random iron team won 4 packs for me overnight. The AI setup only gave me 4 pitchers (!) so I had to spend a few extra minutes grabbing random pitchers.

PocketsAintFull · 03-24-2020, 09:29 AM

Slowly, slowly getting there with the Live Collections

Currently on 257/997 Lives, all but 6 of which are Bronze & Iron

BigRed75 · 03-24-2020, 09:57 AM

Better than I'm doing, but I'm cheap and refuse to pay more than PT20 prices so the only Silvers I have are the ones I pulled.

I'm on 69 cards. Hey-yo!

PocketsAintFull · 03-24-2020, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRed75

Better than I'm doing, but I'm cheap and refuse to pay more than PT20 prices so the only Silvers I have are the ones I pulled.

I'm on 69 cards. Hey-yo!

I've been going for Irons up to 15 (moving up to 20 now), Bronze up to 50 (moving up to 60 now), and the odd Silver I bought was up to 300, but I'm not sure how that markets gonna go right now

macacks · 03-24-2020, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by PocketsAintFull

I've been going for Irons up to 15 (moving up to 20 now), Bronze up to 50 (moving up to 60 now), and the odd Silver I bought was up to 300, but I'm not sure how that markets gonna go right now

The 50 limit on auctions will limit the amount of 'product' available for auction at any one time, especially the low $ iron/bronze. This has raised the price due to scarcity. It will continue to climb IMHO.

waittilnextyear · 03-24-2020, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigRed75

Better than I'm doing, but I'm cheap and refuse to pay more than PT20 prices so the only Silvers I have are the ones I pulled.

I'm on 69 cards. Hey-yo!

Nice.

PocketsAintFull · 03-24-2020, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by PocketsAintFull

Slowly, slowly getting there with the Live Collections

Currently on 257/997 Lives, all but 6 of which are Bronze & Iron

Pretty good few hours - up to 322/992 now. Started paying slightly more, 25 for Irons, 65 for Bronze. Anything below 500 for Silver if I have the pp spare

Oh, and my team are also playing baseball games while their GM lives down the local market. 21-14 in Rookie 66 for the Birmingham Bolts, nice start

Warhawk · 03-24-2020, 03:23 PM

White Tigers started 21-1, 7-8 since then.

Meanwhile the Sun Kings have won 9 of their last 11, going from around a 1 game lead last night to a 6.5 game lead right now at 25-14 as the team in second has lost 7 of 8.

Black Knights have lost 7 of 8 to drop back to 17-21.

Getting pretty close on a few missions for the Kings and Knights but I think I'm looking for the same cards so I'm gonna try to work on the Knights first.

03-23-2020, 08:39 PM	#21
Orion Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 300	Well, I ripped 100 packs for Angelfire as it seems to be a great way to stock up on cards to do collections. It was going really poorly (I always have crap luck with packs), pulled a 94 Flahery, 93 Snell, and a 91 Andy Messersmith (An Angel! Hallelujah!). Then on pack #93 I pulled my first perfect EVER. I've opened at least 300 packs so boy was I due. At least I finally got to see the animation. It was just a Live Scherzer but still made the 100 packs decent instead of a letdown. We also did get really lucky with pulling a bunch of historical 69s and 79's. I already have half of a pretty solid bronze tourney team. __________________ Last edited by Orion; 03-23-2020 at 08:44 PM.

03-23-2020, 09:14 PM	#23
scott1964 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Denver Posts: 5,561 Blog Entries: 19	Never seen this one before. __________________ This just feels more like waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. PETA.....People Eating Tasty Animals.

03-23-2020, 09:34 PM	#24
Orion Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 300	Oho Look what I found! Hanky spanky! Attached Images __________________ Last edited by Orion; 03-23-2020 at 11:43 PM.

03-23-2020, 11:50 PM	#25
waittilnextyear All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 1,272	The Frogs were placed in R82 for the inaugural week of PT league play. Looking around the league, we stick out like the sorest of thumbs and it would take a Miracle on Ice level upset to not win this league. At present, it's quite the event when losing a single game. We're 24-1. Not to fear, to all those raring to gripe about whales, because I won't be doing any funny stuff to stay in low levels for more than a week per level. Just wanted to climb the entire ladder. Attached a pic so you can see what we're working with. The team is mostly made of collection mission rewards, with a few fortuitous pack pulls sprinkled in. Good luck to everyone in your race to the top! Attached Images __________________

03-24-2020, 12:14 AM	#28
skep Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 174	We're through Monday and things are looking like this : Red Bandits 14-12 0GB Mostly silver now with a few golds mixed in. Was getting killed in the iron tournaments but now can hang in the silver. Watermelon Bandits 13-13 7.5GB King Felix leading the parade of rag-tags behind him. Pink Bandits 19-6 0GB Ellis Kinder is a beast, but he's always tired. Turned a 10k tourney win and some nice achievements into a few gold pieces, namely Ray Durham. __________________ FTP Warrior

03-24-2020, 12:17 AM	#29
Caedus Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 95	Had a bit of luck finding historical diamonds on Hollywoo, pulled my third in maybe 30 packs tonight. None of them are particularly great (93 Peak Tim Wallace, 94 All-Star Max Lanier), but my third is an interesting Mets closer, 99 Peak Armando Benitez. 142/81/75 with an eye popping 151 stuff against RHB. Threw him in the auction for an absurd amount we’ll see if anyone bites. My teams are suck and will suck for months so this was nice to see. Hoping Hollywoo doesn’t get promoted from Rookiee but we’ll see. __________________ Last edited by Caedus; 03-24-2020 at 12:19 AM.

03-24-2020, 01:59 AM	#30
Marleigh All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: UK Posts: 541	Paragon City Heroes started 20-6, a 7 game league, each division has at least one collection heavy team which is leading the way, very unbalanced league so far. Lots of Bagwells and Maddux dominating stats (i don't have either yet) Pachuca Pack Rats 22-5, we had a decent all gold rotation and BIll Bonham decided to go on a tear striking out 10+ in multiple games (including 16 in one) racking up some PP, so i opened a couple of packs and got Eugenio Suarez and Anthony Rizzo in the same pack, giving me more than enough bats to lead the league in almost every offensive category. George Springer is the star of the team so far hitting .366 with 10HR Lowdown Lugnuts 16-9 ''I'm going to build the team around Frank Robinson'' Mike Sweeney ''hold my beer'' .380 7HR. Aside from those 2 we have very little power, but a ton of d and bronze/silver pitching and decent speed. So we are 1st in runs against, stolen bases and zoen rating/efficiency __________________

03-24-2020, 07:41 AM	#33
bailey Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,127	A random iron team won 4 packs for me overnight. The AI setup only gave me 4 pitchers (!) so I had to spend a few extra minutes grabbing random pitchers. __________________

03-24-2020, 09:29 AM	#34
PocketsAintFull All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 1,771	Slowly, slowly getting there with the Live Collections Currently on 257/997 Lives, all but 6 of which are Bronze & Iron Attached Images __________________

03-24-2020, 09:57 AM	#35
BigRed75 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,430	Better than I'm doing, but I'm cheap and refuse to pay more than PT20 prices so the only Silvers I have are the ones I pulled. I'm on 69 cards. Hey-yo! __________________ Mainline team SPTT team Was not a Snag fan...until I saw the fallout once he was gone and realized what a good job he was actually doing. - Ty Cobb

03-24-2020, 03:23 PM	#40
Warhawk Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 437	White Tigers started 21-1, 7-8 since then. Meanwhile the Sun Kings have won 9 of their last 11, going from around a 1 game lead last night to a 6.5 game lead right now at 25-14 as the team in second has lost 7 of 8. Black Knights have lost 7 of 8 to drop back to 17-21. Getting pretty close on a few missions for the Kings and Knights but I think I'm looking for the same cards so I'm gonna try to work on the Knights first.