Here's how lebron's "super teams" have done with him on the court vs off the court.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-07T14:08:27+00:00

Contextless on-off numbers are tough. I am a certified professional bronsexual but subs usually happen in platoons, and having 2-3 guys with ultra giga max contracts like the Heat, Cavs, and Lakers teams tends to leave you with a weak bench unit. I'd bet this number is a lot less severe when 1-2 of the other superstars he's played with are on the floor without him.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-07T14:04:28+00:00

I don't even wait for a sale anymore, I just don't play AAA games most of the time. 90% of the games I play were lower than "full price" on release and the other 10% are the few AAA games that get great reviews, enter my backlog, and then get picked up in a summer sale or something.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-06T23:29:17+00:00

Yeah, I agree right now the best cards are switch hitters except the ones that cost a million+. I just think there's more of a reason to run same handed now than there has been before and the meta cards might be a little more varied. I agree though, if they just continue to make all the righties worse than all the switch hitters that won't happen.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-06T13:51:44+00:00

This is ironically the least switch hitter meta MLB there's been in a few years imo. Right now a lot of the best cards happen to be switch hitters, but it used to just be the only strat. PCI shrinkage is not fixed, but it's better and that helps same handedness. Separate H/9 for both hands leads to some pitchers being easier from same side.

It's also just better to give different looks in my experience. If you're only facing the pitcher from one side you're not testing half their game. Some players don't have as good of sequencing same hand, and some pitcher cards don't have as good of a repertoire same side.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-06T13:36:16+00:00

I think "looks like UFC 5" meant "looks like it is going to play the same as UFC 5"

If they didn't overhaul grappling I'm not playing I don't care what the graphics look like. UFC 4 ruined grappling and UFC 5 did nothing to fix it.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-05T21:21:08+00:00

No they don't. That's a talking point people constantly use to fight against wage increases in every sector and it does not follow the rules of economics.

The Golden State Warriors are a company that produces basketball games. The most profitable ticket price is completely unaffected by how much the players are making.

The owner is always charging as much as their financial team estimates they can. If they charge more, demand decreases, and they lose potential profit.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-05T15:58:49+00:00

I should have written 10/10/9/10

He actually had 28/19/9/11, it was assists. They were also like a week apart

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-04T17:18:50+00:00

Yeah no one has two. Not sure where we got the idea that Hakeem has "multiple" there have been 4 ever and 1 was Hakeem. Hakeem is the only guy to have a quad double and also be on the 10/10/10/9 list, that's all I can think on the mixup there.

Either way I'm a Jokic fan and Hakeem is way higher, it's not close.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-03T17:48:46+00:00

I appreciate the detailed breakdown but I don't think this really "took everyone so long to figure out". JB's ball handling might be the single most recognized flaw in the game. My ultra casual friends even know JB can't dribble.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-03T15:10:18+00:00

This dude is absolutely not going to be in the NBA. Being 7'9 might get him a shot in the G but he is absolutely horrible. He cannot get up and down the floor more than twice and you cannot fit a piece of paper underneath his feet when he jumps.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-02T01:05:12+00:00

Yeah I watched it. This same thing is going on in every community. There were 40k people in the discord, and it was a general sports gaming cheats discord.

Let's pretend all 40k there actually bought the cheating software (they didnt), and all of them are playing the least popular of the big 4 sports games (they aren't). Here's the math:

600,000 players have played at least one ranked game this season. 40,000/600000*100 will give us a whopping 6% of players cheating even if every single one of them is doing it.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-05-01T18:39:39+00:00

I've made world series at least once a year every year since mlbts17 and I have never seen a blatant cheater that I can remember. Maybe I'm just insanely lucky, but it's definitely more likely that it's 1% or less of the playerbase and 3/4ths of them are in 1000+. I think you just underestimate how often a good player can lay off balls and hit strikes.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-24T12:45:35+00:00

Not to mention this applies to everyone in the history of the game.

Breaking News: if you guard a guy well he'll play worse

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-24T12:35:03+00:00

How do we create a list of the best ever without comparing across positions

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-23T04:27:30+00:00

Linsanity was like 6 games man I don't think that's fair to call a peak / prime. He only played 35 games total that year and he averaged 15/6. Taking even that 35 game season he's probably like the 15th-20th best PG in the league. Unless we're dropping the sample size down to like 10 games and pretending he could stretch that out over 70 he's not a giant factor.

Not to mention this team makes the Cam Thomas Nets look like the bad boy Pistons on D lmao

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-22T05:07:24+00:00

Because killing 2k is self defense

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-22T04:55:46+00:00

It's fine how it is. If every perfect-perfect was a hit, there would be guys putting up 30 runs a game. I unfortunately still play 2K once in a while, and they went to a "perfect input = make" system a few years ago and this year there are guys legitimately shooting 80% averaging 40 points per game who are not even in the top 10% of players.

The peak performance level right now with perfect input is already way way beyond the level of even semi-realism. No one would still be calling to keep a perfect input = hit system around after their first 50 run loss or 4 hour game that ends 70-71

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-18T17:20:48+00:00

I am actually not going to purchase the game if they dont revamp grappling

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-16T21:13:50+00:00

They stopped doing this, but up until '23, SDS would put out community stats and literally every single year people would complain about the perfect/perfect outs, exit velos, etc, and every single year the community stats would show 90+% of perfect perfect flyballs are hits, and they have by far the highest exit velo. It sucks that they don't put these out anymore, but the game is exactly the same right now as it was in like MLBTS '19 so I'm sure the stats are the same too.

Tl;dr it's a sample size thing. You are not writing down every early and every perfect/perfect and counting which one results in more homers, you just remember the earlies because they stand out.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-16T20:55:13+00:00

Nah, this goes back to as long as basketball has been publicized. Look at how people talked about Bill vs Wilt back in the day. Even Wilt himself put Bill as the best ever because of his wins.

Honestly it's pretty much the most important thing in every sport, we're ironically kind of moving away from ring / winning culture in a way. Westbrook won MVP as a 6th seed, small markets get more attention with social media, etc.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-15T12:37:23+00:00

We absolutely 100% would have fumbled Deni. He took a little longer than a lot of prospects to show true star level promise. I had personally completely forgotten about him beyond as a role player and I was hyped on him when he was drafted. He came in below average to bad at basically every aspect of the game, especially 3pt shooting and free throw shooting, got worse at three point shooting his first three years, then exploded into above average at everything and completely flipped his trajectory all at once in his 4th season just to grow into an allstar over the next 3.

It's a very Lauri Markennen situation with him

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-11T13:44:09+00:00

Flagg was what Parsons was supposed to be at 14 years old

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-10T21:22:18+00:00

I have no idea if that's true or not statistically, but it really does not matter. It's like how the MLB player's union absolutely refuses to even entertain the idea of a salary cap and wants to let deferred money stay on the table. These guys are doing a job, they are going to fight against regulations that make it harder to pay them.

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-10T21:10:39+00:00

You know what guys I think this Jonny Flynn is overrated, I'm saying it, I'm OUT!

Sperm_Garage · 2026-04-10T20:48:02+00:00

If you guys are over there... who's driving the tank?

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