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Going to copy and paste what The Mogul always says. Let's get this started and see if there are any gems for our new U21 manager.


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The offseason processing day is coming up fast, on Monday, October 31st. 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.

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

1. In the Season 18 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

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: Greerzilla
II.1 - II.4: damian13ster
III.1 - III.4: Kevi
III.5 - III.8:
III.9 - III.12:
III.13 - III.16:
IV.1 - IV.4:
IV.5 - IV.8:
IV.9 - IV.12:
Outer space (IV.13 - IV.64):

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Copy and Pasted from Season 17 thread opened by Greerzilla.



Last edited by Bballin at 2/6/2012 1:14:24 PM

I will do Naismith

will do II.1- II.4


looks like the draft has already happened but no age update. so get to scouting !!! :D


Last edited by damian13ster at 2/6/2012 12:22:23 PM

But if the age update hasn't happened, you won't know which one was this season's new rookies and last years...

I'll do III.1-III.4 for now

This seasons rookies have 0 DMI.

League II.4

19 yo perennial allstar (23545449)
18 yo perennial allstar 3317$ (23545470)
18 yo susperstar 4337$ (23545475)
19 yo MVP 5256 (23545467) Awesome name! Too bad 19yo
18 yo perennial allstar 4641$ (23545469)
18 yo superstar 3706$ (23545451)

pretty solid draft class but unless those 2 18 yo superstars and 19 yo MVP have nice skillset, there is nothing spectacular

League II.3

18 yo allstar 5219$ (23545521) (SG but with 206cm, SF prospect?)
19 yo MVP from bot team (check bots, players can be extracted from them) 4285$ (23545517)
18 yo superstar SG 4316$ (23545538) (at this point brain of damian13ster finally figured out that listing positions might also be usefull)
18 yo star PF. not really a top prospect but 7063$ salary!!!!!! (23545502) Might be good SF, but not NT caliber
18 yo superstar PF U21 STUD!!! 6716$ [player=23545530
18 yo perennial allstar 4579$ (23545526)]
19 yo MVP SG 4207$ (23545528)

Overally very good draft. Two very high salary players. Too bad one of them is star potential but I would give a lot to see both of them (skills)

League II.2 (and yes, I am going backwards because I play in II.1 and want to build tension before dissapointing myself with my draft)

By the way just saw bbalin`s prospects from drafts :D out JNT manager will be in bad mood today. By the way. I havent listed players with less than 3500$ salary even if they were MVP so if they have a nice skillset let JNT management know)

19 yo HOF PG 4094$ (23545563)
18 yo perennial allstar C 3897$ (23545562)
18 yo perennial allstar SF 3922$ (23545574)
18 yo perennial allstar PG 4763$ (JNT prospect alert) (23545557)
19 yo superstar PG 5750$ (23545560)
18 yo allstar PG 4027$ (23545547)
19 yo perennial allstar SG 5278$ (23545552) in a bot team

First HOF found this seaosn but 19 yo.


And here we come.....
League II.1

18 yo superstar SF 3204$ (23545614) (went through 10 teams so far and this was the best prospect by far. now that`s called a weak draft class)
18 yo superstar PG 3854$ (23545630) (how did I miss him)
18 yo perennial allstar C 3464$ (23545637)
18 yo perennial allstar C 3668$ (23545608) (went through 13 teams, starting to list anything that doesnt kill itself when running. After all there has to be evidence that I have actually done some work here)
18 yo allstar SF 3603$ (23545610)
19 yo HOF SF 3715$ (23545596)
18 yo perennial allstar SF 4318$ (23545628)
Weekly salary: $ 4 318
Role: draws a paycheck
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'4" / 193 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: average Handling: mediocre
Driving: mediocre Passing: atrocious
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: average Free Throw: inept

Experience: atrocious

feel free to pick him up. He is too weak to be a trainee in my team and might be decent prospect (passing trains fast)



Ok, scouting done. League II.1 was by far the worst. Now it is a time to go cry in the corner that after spending two season worth of scouting points I got pretty useless shit. Oh well....

good job but the thing is, your scouting was done before the promotion/demotion of teams was done, we got to get careful not to forget anyone