All-Time Teams Program Parties Like It's 2019

It turns out that 2026 Finest wasn't all that was left in the tank. SDS dropped All-Time Teams today, with a "normal" iteration of the program and an Extreme version.

I hope you like 3-inning games with zero PXP and program progress.

All-Time Teams Program Breakdown

There's nothing bad to say about the reward path. A bunch of packs, including a Weekend Classic Leaderboard Rewind Choice Pack which is a pretty big deal. There's also a handful of some of the biggest names still waiting for their 99 OVR cards.

The problem is that the program structure is rather uninspired. This is basically the exact same program structure of the Signature Teams program back in 2019.

Why is that such a bad thing in 2026? SDS made the design decision that Moments would not accrue PXP for the players featured in the Moment. OK, that sorta makes sense if you don't actually own the card. What's that have to do with this program?

The entire program is a series of 3-inning games against each MLB team's "all-time" team, featuring the best versions of players available in the game. This, of course, absolutely rules.

Except that these are constructed as Moments, and not actual games. Meaning that you're playing an actual 3-inning game with your Diamond Dynasty squad, but you're not earning PXP at all.

Asking the player base to dredge through 39 separate 3-inning games without earning PXP, in November, feels as frigid as the changing temperature. This could have been a Mini Seasons challenge, or even a cool Diamond Quest map.

Instead, we get a carbon copy of a 7-year old program that fails to take advantage of the PXP system, one of the best innovations since that time.

It's also a reminder that SDS completely abandoned the Captain feature, another of the best innovations in recent years. You can earn 99 OVR Awards Greg Maddux in this program, but you have to choose between that version and the Jolt version that carries Captain abilities if you want to run a Braves theme team. This is true for several other players that were Jolt Captains early in the content cycle.

Here we are with an All-Time Teams program, practically the only real "theme team" curated content, and we can't even reliably build our own theme teams and take advantage of the best versions of the best players while using Captains.

This might be the cherry on top for the "this game is stale and in need of a major overhaul" crowd.

TOO EXTREME

If you're up for more of a challenge, you can play the same program on Hall of Fame and Legend difficulties to earn "alternate art" variants of the same program players listed above. This is an entirely separate reward path, so there's additional rewards to be had here in addition to the variant.

If you complete the entire Extreme Program, you can "collect" the variants within the regular All-Time Teams Program to complete that program without having to replay games. There's a ton of value here if you can stomach the Moments.

I personally cannot fathom playing through that many meaningless games without earning PXP and program progress, so I won't be swinging away with Hammerin' Hank this year. Double XP is even live right now, and that still doesn't motivate me to slog through all of these Moments.

Will you be grinding through the All-Time Teams gauntlet? Let us know in the comments!