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Post by rockchalk88 on Apr 9, 2015 10:07:51 GMT -5
I seriously don't know how to play cards this year.
can someone make a video detailing this?
I love the new structure of contests but I miss the old way of PTs playing. It's such a turn off.
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Post by rpitcher on Apr 11, 2015 0:13:28 GMT -5
Topps certainly failed in instructing us about the changes. Took me hours to figure it out at all, and I am still messing it up.
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Post by rpitcher on Apr 11, 2015 8:17:05 GMT -5
I dunno how to do videos LOL
I am about to play the "Early Saturday Games-Rookie" though and will type a walk through.
This is on an iPad. I am not sure how it compares to iPhone for exact layout.
Realize that playing cards is the same as last year, except you have to build a pool of cards first, and then pick your lineup from that pool of cards. That pool is called your deck.
The new interface is intimidating, but really adds some nice features over last year. You will get used to it soon enough.
1. Go to "Contests" by using the banner button on the bottom command bar.
2. You may have to refresh the Contests page to see any listed.
3. If you haven't joined a Contest yet, they should be listed on the white part of the screen.
4. If you have joined a Contest and don't see it, use the buttons on the left (Join, Starting Soon, In Progress, etc) to make it show up on the right.
5. The Rookie contests are currently Free, and show a Free button.
6. Contests cost coins and have a button with the number of coins required.
7. I click on the little blue arrow on the right of the contest I want to join.
8. That takes me to a page with the details for that contest.
9. Before making my deck, I like to have the real ball games involved in the contest show up on the right, using the little blue arrow beside Games.
10. I click the Free button to join. (That button then becomes the Deck button.)
11. The Free/Deck button makes a deck builder pop up. (called "Build Deck" at the top).
12. The deck builder displays the cards you own that are for teams that play in the games involved in that contest.
13. The games for this Saturday morning contest are Boston-NY, STL-Reds, Twins-ChiSox.
14. Each contest has its own rules for how many cards you can put in your deck. The rules are at that contests details page.
15. This Saturday morning contest allows me to use as many cards as I have that add up to 90 boost. So if I have 90 golds I could only use 45 of them. Or I could use 90 whites. Of 40 golds and 10 whites.
16. The deck builder has a search/sorting feature that appears to be the same as the one in our collections.
17. I use another device (or tv, or online news) to learn who todays probably starters are for the games in this contest.
18. I use the search feature to see if I have those pitchers. Darn, no Cueto for me.
19. Once I see a card I want in my deck, I double click it to add it to the deck. You can also click it once to bring up in a window that has features such as "add all to deck". I don't have many duplicates of good cards yet, but this feature will be great later in the season as collections grow.
20 From that little pop up card window you can tap the card to make it bigger. I do this a lot cuz I don't have my reading glasses on LOL
21. I check the lineups on another devices and pick out the better cards of players I think will score more points in the games.
22. I rarely fill a deck to the allowed boost because my collection is small yet. Also, I tend not to be able to follow many games and don't make a lot of lineup chances on the app during games. If you do follow games and have time to change lineups, fillup your deck, cuz the only cards you can put in your lineup have to be in this deck.
23. I like to Save my lineup now and then as I build it. One App crash can make you lose a few minutes work. After you save you go back to the deck builder with the Deck button.
24. I find if you have used the search feature, you need to cancel out of it to save. It looks like you save if you don't cancel search, but I find the cards are gone when I reopen deck builder if I have not cancelled out of search.
25. You can swipe the cards to flip them for the stats on back, just like in collection. But you have to be cancelled out of search to do it. Wow Billy Hamilton has scored positive in each game so far this year. I'm putting him in!
26. So I am not going to fill this deck right up to the 90 boost allowed. I just don't have a big enough collection yet. I'm content with the 20 cards and 25.9 boost I picked for this contest.
27. Save!
28. Now that your deck is saved, you can click on the big blue Play Cards button to make your lineup. That's 9 cards spanning the games in this contest (which is three games in this contest). You can change your lineup as games progress, but I wont have time for much of that today.
29. The "Play" window works a lot like playing cards did last year. You see your nine line up slots across the top. Search/Sort feature. It should be displaying the cards you put in your deck (as opposed to all your cards last year).
30. You can double click on cards to put them in your lineup, or single click them to bring up a detailed card selection window with lots of features.
31. There is a blue arrow button below your lineup that blows up your lineup to read. Some add/remove features in that blow up too.
32. Save your lineup with the save button. Remember to be cancelled out of search. It does not save for me otherwise. Hope Topps fixes that.
Hope that helps someone!
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Post by davidg200 on Apr 11, 2015 16:56:49 GMT -5
Yes, Topps made this very confusing and complicated but this is a great play by play to get set up...basically think about what cards can help you based on boost (value of card) within a threshold of boost..they only you to add a certain # to the deck which you then use to draw cards from.
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Post by dbole123 on Apr 11, 2015 22:00:19 GMT -5
Rpitcher,
Great great write up on how to do this for any of the guys who arent sure.. Here is what I have seen the last couple of days, and I am in no way close to any of the boost limits for the games today..Once I setup the cards in my deck, and save them, when the game starts , only the 9 cards I put in my deck show up , and they show up whited out. I can see who it is, but has a white film over it. I cannot see any of the other players I have for those games, to swap them out.. I was able to earlier in the week, but now, I cannot.. Anyone else have this issue??
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Post by rpitcher on Apr 12, 2015 2:15:43 GMT -5
Rpitcher, Great great write up on how to do this for any of the guys who arent sure.. Here is what I have seen the last couple of days, and I am in no way close to any of the boost limits for the games today..Once I setup the cards in my deck, and save them, when the game starts , only the 9 cards I put in my deck show up , and they show up whited out. I can see who it is, but has a white film over it. I cannot see any of the other players I have for those games, to swap them out.. I was able to earlier in the week, but now, I cannot.. Anyone else have this issue?? The "white film" look is showing that you have already used that card. If you have multiples of a card in your deck, it won't "white film" until you put all of them in your line up. As for the other cards disappearing, there may be some confusion with the terms I used in my write up. We have cards in our COLLECTION. For each contest we use cards from our COLLECTION to make a DECK for that contest. Then we use cards from that DECK to make a nine card LINEUP. You do not make LINEUP changes from your COLLECTION, but from the DECK you made for that contest. Your post almost reads as though you put just nine cards in your DECK (and maybe in your LINEUP too). If that is the case, then when you went to make LINEUP changes, you were limited to just those nine cards in your DECK. No other cards would show up. Could that be it, or is there maybe a Bunt glitch happening on your device? |
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Post by rpitcher on Apr 12, 2015 2:19:28 GMT -5
I scored coins in the contest in my write up! Goes to show that figuring out the interface is the hardest part. We should earn coins just for navigating successfully LOL
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Post by dbole123 on Apr 12, 2015 9:58:27 GMT -5
I scored coins in the contest in my write up! Goes to show that figuring out the interface is the hardest part. We should earn coins just for navigating successfully LOL WOW!! now who feels like an idiot?? I guess the first few games I was jut having it auto build, then picking my 9 cards from that.. Well, now I may be able to actually get higher than 6 place:-) That was really bothering me, and yes, they should have done better job explaining how it all works.. But , yes, I was just picking nine in my deck, and them putting those in the starting 9.. I gues sI was used to last years format,, Thnkd alot for that info, that makes me feel better. |
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Post by paulypavilion on Apr 13, 2015 7:01:57 GMT -5
Great write up, RPITCHER. I find the hardest thing is remembering to save my changes so that they actually go into place. There also definitely a couple of times where I setup my lineup in advance and saved out, but then went back later and it undid my lineup. I also find it annoying that when you save it takes you out of the play screen. If you are trying to keep up with current activity, that's a couple of seconds of delay that can cause you to miss a good scoring play. No warmup time means you can get notifications about a HR and still play the card and score the points if you are fast enough.
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