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the only 5 ball with potential that i see was a 19years old center that i put in the fifth place in the list,if i remember well(and i was looking for a guard in the draft).And i see eight or nine players with five ball rating...What should i do in that situation?
My proposal will at least make the random less randomic,if i pick up a five ball,also if old and with low potential,had to be at least useful from the first moment,also if only for the cup

What you are talking about?
I hat the eleventh pick in the draf,but also if I had the first pick,surely I will not spend 40k/week for the draft,because if I'm sure to pick every player I want in the list,spending less for week(10-20K) is quite enough to see good players and to pick them
And the reasoning is more general than a mere question_first-second pick
I have no interest to train him in the future,because he will have few value for his skills because of his potential and his age...and I'm talking about a 5 ball skill rating,if you think that the other players of the draft should be worse than him,you had to think about the fact that the main part of the players of the draft are useless

Have you read my previous posts?I picked up a sixth man potential,a 19 years old sixth man potential it's completely useless nowadays...but if i pick up a 5 ball star rating,i expected to have at least a useful player,also if he is old and has low potential,your example shows thatthe draft has to be less randomatic to be an enjoyable part of this game

It's out of any sense that a five ball rating can go from "the future best player in the BB world" to "a player that you have to fire one minute after the draft"

Last edited by Steve Karenn at 3/27/2010 9:32:35 AM

I did some research on the draft. From what I found out was that
5* Rating grantees salary of 3,7k+
which for me is pretty much the lowest trainable salary. Below that, in most of the cases you can just fire the guy (unless he has 9, 10 potential and the right hight).

With the potential balls it seems it more or less like this:
5* 10, 9,
4* 8, 7
3* 6, 5
2* 4, 3
1* 2, 1, 0

Player with a 3* potential is a decent choice for guards unless u are in the top 2 divisions of your country. 4* is sufficient for inside players. I've trained guards with star potential. I used most of the time 2 position training and in most cases by the time the guy reaches his potential he is already 23 years old and not worth training. The rush for potential is a little bit exaggerated and overpriced. Players with 9-10 potential are in most cases needed only in the top 2 divisions or for those people that want to have a player on the NT or U21 team. All of my trainees came from the draft. Some drafts were awful but I can blame the system itself as I've never had a pick better than 12th. In season 10 draft in my league there where 5 guys with salary 4k+ of who only one was 18 with a decent potential. In this draft we had 11 guys with 4k+ salary of who 4 had salary of 5,5k+. I'm not gonna complain about that distribution. After all not every draft in NBA has brought superstars into the game.

The thing I would change in draft is that we receive as many points as we have paid for and we "discover" each player and decide if we want to waste second point to get his potential or not. In that manner we could only blame our luck in case we wasted all of our points on trainable guys. Also I agree that the 19 year olds should be given a bit higher skill sets since thats why they stayed in college one year longer.

I think that with that 2 modifications the draft system would be much better.

5 stars for match rating...sigh

Well, to get this back to my initial issue on the math, I think the issue I'm starting to have with the draft is that at this point, I have so far had significantly more success grabbing draft crumbs off of the TL than I have from the actual draft, both in terms of cost and player skills. Since my first draft at the end of Season 4, I think I've drafted 3 really good players, and only 2 of them that fit my team's training plan/needs. Even this year, I think the worst of my draftees was my first-rounder. The problem is that it seems that the odds of me actually drafting a player who's better than what I've can find on the TL for less than I spent on scouting seems significantly lower than what I think is worth while risking, and in the long run I can save enough money by not scouting (or at least scouting minimally) that I the money I save can either be spent on a decent rookie on the TL every season or on a really special rookie once every two/three seasons.

So this is the matter that I think needs to be really looked at by the astute BBs (who I personally think make a great call with the salaries this offseason, which is why I'm confident they'll eventually be able to improve the draft system so that most of us will really like it). Make the math work to get us interested in the draft, maybe by tying the evaluations to a scouting staff position, adding more players to the draft pool, changing the scouting cost amounts, etc., and I think we'll all be happier.

i can't let the chunks have the last word on a thread he started -- but, la fou, i've been thinking . . .

what if we had something like what i understand the nfl has -- a collective scouting of a group of rookies. the way i envision this working is teams would pay to look -- say $50,000 -- and then get all the available information about all the rookies. (this could be subject to further development -- maybe the same balls system, ranking, box scores, or maybe some specific skills, height --)

then -- and this is the idea -- we would have a league-wide Dutch auction -- each team would offer silent, secret bids on the player(s) of their dreams -- i could see each team bidding on up to three players, say -- they could offer bids on each of the players, but rank their priority. this draft would accomplish much:

1) teams could opt in or out of the draft -- increasing the range of management tactics
2) teams could look for specific players to fit their needs
3) giving sufficient clues for a reasonable idea of the player's abilities and potential would remove or certainly reduce the random / gambling factor
4) strong rookies would no longer be free money for the undeserving, but would be fairly valued from the beginning. or, to put it another way, rookies would be more accurately valued before they hit the TL
5) it would be challenging to come up with a bid that both wins a player and does not overpay
6) it would further complicate finances, as teams would have to plan for the bids

downside, or adverse changes:
1) teams lose their draft advantage currently gained now by losing. i don't see this as deal breaker, because they could plan for spending big bucks on a draft choice.
2) multiple bids could be a hassle -- maybe teams could have a top bid, next bid, third bid, using the same money, but once that money is used, further bids would have to be covered with cash

this would add a bit of active excitement to the weeks between seasons, as we would be looking at other teams and determining what their needs might be, their bids, etc.