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ATG 9 is my favorite. I play 80M DH and one thing that I find very unfortunate is how cheap STRONG platoons are. Particularly on the L balance side. There are a bunch of lethal $1M players that have hitting cards comparable to MUCH more expensive players. Yes I realize there are less lefty pitchers but I feel this is extremely unbalanced. For a while I would only play righty pitchers just because I was so tired of it and low and behold the rings were coming in for me. And yes I do realize these platoon players are imperfect but they're tremendously overpowered and that's why 80%+ of the top managers are using them every single league. Running as many platoons as possible.
Another thing I'm not a fan of is how atrocious the vast majority of catches are. Their pricing seems to have very little rhyme or reason to it and some cards are extremely strong versus others in their price range. A lot of the 6M catches are terrible and it makes no sense.
The pool of cards is enormous with huge batches of cards coming in more and more. Is this the final ATG? All this is doing is making platoons stronger and more easily attainable. In a regular league there are 4+ teams abusing platoons. I don't watch real baseball but I have to assume there is a lot less platoon usage than in this game. It gets silly when there are 5+ pinch hitters in a row and 3+ relievers - nearly 10 players switched out to hit the ball once. Then HAL just leaves in a 9R against a lefty when there are other relievers to use.
Another issue I see is the droves are suboptimal cards flooding into the game. What is the point of them exactly? Tons and tons of awful and ridiculous cards such as Mountain Goat Spencer. Meanwhile we get Bengie Molina... it doesn't add up. I am considering switching to No DH leagues or a different set altogether for the sole reason of seeing a reduced usage of platoons. Anyway that's it: Poor card balance and way too much platooning. If you have fun with it then great but I'm tired of it. Curious what you guys think
Another thing I'm not a fan of is how atrocious the vast majority of catches are. Their pricing seems to have very little rhyme or reason to it and some cards are extremely strong versus others in their price range. A lot of the 6M catches are terrible and it makes no sense.
The pool of cards is enormous with huge batches of cards coming in more and more. Is this the final ATG? All this is doing is making platoons stronger and more easily attainable. In a regular league there are 4+ teams abusing platoons. I don't watch real baseball but I have to assume there is a lot less platoon usage than in this game. It gets silly when there are 5+ pinch hitters in a row and 3+ relievers - nearly 10 players switched out to hit the ball once. Then HAL just leaves in a 9R against a lefty when there are other relievers to use.
Another issue I see is the droves are suboptimal cards flooding into the game. What is the point of them exactly? Tons and tons of awful and ridiculous cards such as Mountain Goat Spencer. Meanwhile we get Bengie Molina... it doesn't add up. I am considering switching to No DH leagues or a different set altogether for the sole reason of seeing a reduced usage of platoons. Anyway that's it: Poor card balance and way too much platooning. If you have fun with it then great but I'm tired of it. Curious what you guys think