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How many points would you need to do this? It seems like a lot.

The real simple draft advice:

Option one (My favorite way):

get 10 scouting points for the Group Demonstration.

interview all 5 star prospects until you find a 3-4 ball+ potential player who is 18.

Option two (The more suggested way):

get 10 scouting points for the Scouting combine.

Find an 18 year old with a height around a player you'd want to train (under 6'4" for a guard, between 6'4"-6'9" for a SF, and 6'9"+ plus for a big man). Interview all 18 year olds that fit into the category you desire until you find a player you like (4-5 star rating and 3-4+ balls of potential).

Those are the two best ways to go about it. Very simple. Not that long.

Do you think it's worth interviewing the 5-ball 19yo you find after doing Group Demo and Combine?

If you have the points for it, if you have a low pick, the 18yo's aren't that good, and you don't mind him being 19, then I say go for it.

If you have at least 20 points you can do both the scouting combine and the group demonstration. If you put 4 points or 2 points in (I put 2 points mostly the whole season except for two weeks where I did 4 because I had extra money laying around) I had 24 points. This allowed me to do both those and interview two of the three 5 ball prospects that it revealed. By the time the draft actually comes around I'll probably have 6 - 10 more points which will allow me to scout the remaining 5 ball prospect and 10 of the 13 unscouted 18 y/os.

Now if I scout someone and they are a 1-3 ball they just go right to the bottom of the list and don't get interviewed. So I hope to find one or two more 5 ball prospects and interview them. If I'm lucky I'll get my top 3 picks (I probably won't as I'm winning my league this season.)

But if I can get 1 of my top three prospects the draft would not have been a waste as I'll be getting essentially a blank slate player to either train or sell. If I get an MVP or above that player is going right to the TL as you can get a really good profit on a player like that which will help my team more than anything. So all said and done this process will take me around 30-34 scout points. So for a 340,000 dollar gamble that I'll get one of these players. One of these 5 ball at least Perennial Allstar players would go for around that price anyways so I don't feel like I'm getting shafted or anything.

It's all up to what is important to you, as I said in the initial post the draft is really fun for me (I'm a Cleveland Cavaliers fan so that might have something to do with it) and you may want to take that 340'000 and have invested it into your arena which is a great idea as well. But for me I look at it in my all bot league as a solid shot at getting a 5 ball 4-5 potential A-A+ player that can either be a great trainee or even that million dollar player. Which to me is a great investment.

I have some good news for you. 34 scout points x 5K each is only $170,000 spent.

So if it was worth $340K to you, then you're getting a great bargain.

i got 34 scout points. but i don't really trust the draft this year. gonna get some numbers and hope for the best this season!

and then go for the potential NT player of the future the season I KNOW i am gonna demote.

(29556075) http://www.buzzerbeater.com/league/50/draftSummary.aspx?s...

"Donny Beauchamp was pick 19 in the season 23 draft by LaxBros".

You never know what opportunities you may be missing...

That's D.V though. It is a lot easier to have people slip down the charts in D.V because many people do not know how to scout properly. If I were him I would also wait.

Turtle posted the draft from: Draft summary for league IV.29 in season 23

Ah my bad. I apologize to him then. I didn't even notice the league. With that being said I would still wait in toughs situation because he probably has a good chance of promoting and getting much better draftees next season (he also already has numerous trainees thy he is dealing with right now).