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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.

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The offseason processing day is coming up fast, on Monday, April 18. 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******

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.


Last edited by The Mogul at 4/16/2011 4:29:22 PM

In general, claiming scouting assignments in blocks of 4 leagues tends to work well. I'll keep all of the volunteering / completion information in this post here.

Naismith: GM-Rip (done)
II.1 - II.4: The Mogul
III.1 - III.4: O-Rod (done)
III.5 - III.8: Griffin (done)
III.9 - III.12: The Mogul (done)
III.13 - III.16: Montreal Aces (done)
IV.1 - IV.4: Eminence Front (done)
IV.5 - IV.8: The Mogul (done)
IV.9 - IV.12: The Shufflers (done)
IV.13 - IV.16: The Mogul (done)
IV.17 - IV.20: The Mogul (done)
Outer space (IV.21 - IV.64): The Mogul (done)

There are very few active teams deep in division 4, and I'll slog through those leagues. Due to tradition, I have also volunteered Rip to scout the Naismith. :P If you'd like to help with scouting, just pick a league group to volunteer for, or ask me to assign you something.

Last edited by The Mogul at 4/21/2011 7:54:27 PM

When do we need the draft scouting to be done by? I'll be busy until about Thursday, but if it doesn't need to be done until Friday or later, I can help scout.

I'll take IV. 9 - IV. 12

The scouting usually gets done within a few days of the draft. Ideally, it would be great if we're able to do that again this season, but we'll see.

*********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******

With maintenance taking place this offseason, I think it's going to take a lot longer for teams to move to their new leagues, I think best-case scenario would probably be Wed/Thurs, so my guess is you prolly really aren't gunna get to start scouting until Thursday anyways.

ill take III.1-III.4

Ill take III. 13 to III. 16

III.13
(19313177) Nikolaos Valianatos - Perennial Allstar
(19313158) Danny van Zijderveld - Star
(19313146) Cleo Lowry - Perennial Allstar
(19313174) Richard Brown - Allstar
(19313145) Thomas Cheesman - Superstar
(19313184) Zahir Omar - Superstar

III.14
(19313470) Jean-Marcel Groulx - Superstar
(19313440) Jonathan Cole - Perennial Allstar
(19313442) Danny Taylor - Perennial Allstar
(19313469) Wang Ruocai - Star

III.15
(19314679) Antonio Porcedda - Star
(19314713) Bucky Garvey - Allstar
(19314692) Blair Twohig - Perennial Allstar
(19314696) Antone Royal - MVP
(19314694) Jordan Delaney - Allstar
(19314702) Anthony Simpson - Perennial Allstar
(19314719) Rungroj Promrat - Allstar
(19314699) Ron Chana - MVP
(19314678) Grigorakis Panopoulos - MVP

III.16
(19314738) Leonid Lutsyshin - All-Time Great
(19314764) Charles-Francois Pion - MVP
(19314730) Jimmy Blessington - Perennial Allstar

Last edited by Ploije at 4/19/2011 11:19:07 AM

I'll take whatever needs taking:)

I will take div II. I am going to be out of town all day Tuesday and Wednesday but will find a way to get it done :)