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Draft scouting time...or almost! I like how things went scouting-wise in the past, and I'll copy / paste the same information that has been put up in recent seasons, with minor edits.

Edit: I meant to call this "season 14 draft scouting," as the draft is technically the season 14 draft. Oh well, you guys know what I mean. :P

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The offseason processing day is coming up fast, on Monday, January 10. That means that on Monday-ish....you guessed it....the draft! Every season, when a new group of Canadian players is drafted, the top draftees are identified and added to scouting lists. This season, I will be the one taking down player skills, and organizing the overall tracking efforts. As always, help is needed to scout the draft, and it would be great if we could get all of the scouting done as quickly as possible.

Every Canadian division needs to be scouted, all the way from Naismith down to the division IV leagues. For format, I think it works best to have draft classes posted in this thread; the key information is the player ID (it really helps if you post the link; [player=xxxx], where the xxxx is the ID number). Putting the player name next to the ID is also helpful, and any other information is optional.

I would like to see players listed that meet the following criteria:
- 18 years old
- $3500+ salary (approximately; can be lower for MVP+ potential)
- at least star potential
- not retired
- does not belong to a bot team

These guidelines are the same as ones that we have used in the past; I won't end up tracking every player that meets these criteria, but I would like to take a look at everyone that does, and track the best ones (anyone that I think has some reasonable chance of playing for Canada one day).

I think it works best to have volunteers step in and claim the leagues that they would like to scout. I recommend only volunteering for 4 leagues maximum or so to start; as the scouting goes along, if there are leagues yet to be claimed, anyone who wants to can jump in and take those as well (it works to just post that you will be doing it right before you do it, and then edit that post with the scouting information as you go).

Let's hope for a great draft class for Canada today, and feel free to ask if you have any questions about our post-draft scouting efforts this season.

*********Also, be sure to wait until the new season 15 divisions have been created, before starting to scout. This is to prevent teams from being missed due to promotion and relegation. If you're unsure, just wait to hear the go ahead******

Last edited by The Mogul at 1/9/2011 11:11:16 AM

Here is one way to do scouting; this is AstonMidhurst's method, with a couple tweaks:

1. In the Season 15 draft scouting thread, begin a post where you will record scouting information for the divisions you are doing, and add in the information as you go.

2. Open a new window, and go the the page for the division you're working on. Look at the conference page (either Big 8 or Great 8) and check which teams are bots. If a team is bot you don't need to look at it (you can tell by seeing the last login date, since bot teams will have a blank entry).

3. If a team is not bot, open their team page in a new window (saves time by not having to go back through old pages).

4. From the team page, go to that team's roster.

5. In the roster page, sort the players by age... they are automatically sorted by youngest to oldest (meaning the players we are looking for will be at the top of the page).

6. Record the players that fit the requirements for tracking... all newly drafted players will have a DMI of 0. If there is an 18-year old that doesn't have a DMI of 0, it means that the age update has yet to take place, and he's actually supposed to be 19-years old.

7. Repeat the process above for each of the teams in the conference.

8. Repeat the process above for the other conference.

9. Repeat the process above for the other divisions.

I'll take III.1 to III.5.

Could I take the D.II's?

Can i take D.IV.8-11?

assign me whatever

i think i have time to do up to 16 leagues

I'm very busy Monday, but have nothing to do really on Tuesday, so I should be able to do quite a bit of scouting on Tuesday. Assign me a couple of divisions.

Here to help, will take any leftover leagues.

i'll do the rest of division III. so 6 to 16.

one thing i have asked in the past is if we can get some kind of spreadsheet with all the links to possible potiential U-21 canidates i think the usa does this. as is says something about it on their front page. if we had something like this set up i would be easier to let people know when the decent canadian talent goes up for sale and try and find some good canadian managers to bid on them to help the U-21 team. it wouldn't even have to contain all their skills as that would be too much work but i think just having say a 100 of the top guys in the class, with links to their pages would be good enough for now imo.

I object! jk =), I think ill take a few more leagues ill go from D.IV.4-11, when will we get our rookies/draftee's? as long as no one objects :D