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These are excellent questions, Petra! I am certainly not an expert, so I will answer only #4. To my knowledge, draftees do not ever have a skill above respectable except in free throws (where I've seen a strong). However my draftees are usually pitiful in FT:-). Good luck in your draft!

I'm certainly not an expert either, but I'll answer the best I can.

1) Well the stars are an "initial evaluation of the players skills". So they are general and I'm assuming that they might be inaccurate a bit, because if not there would be no point to grade ratings.

2) Yes, very much so. The boxscore could be from a bad game they had, or a good one. Maybe against a weak opponent, or a hard one. So don't trust boxscores and I know that for sure.

3) Basically his skill levels compared to other draftees.

4) I don't know but Pappy's probably right.

5) I don't think so. People are always saying this year was a bad draft or a good draft. So I think there's no specific distribution, but I'm not 100% sure on that one.

6) I don't know about higher level leagues getting better or worse, sorry mate.

7) Well obviously they'll be of slight different quality, but in general they should be approximately the same.

I hope this has been helpful, cheers mate!

Cool, I didn't know that.

So would you draft a 4* player who had a horrible stat line (30 minutes, 8 TOs, no points, 1 Reb for a Center) over a 2* player who had a very good stat line for his position?

Yes, because those 4 stars are a initial judgment on the quality of the players skill levels. As I said games are very inconsistent.

There definitely is a specific distribution of the probability that a draft player has a certain number of stars. This distribution is the same across league levels.

And here's why koz knows it: (40492.8).

Hi all,

this is my 3rd draft and Im still not sure what the best ranking is for the players I scouted.
f.e. I have three 4 * with 4 * Potential and I have three 5 * with 3 *Potential... (all are 18 or 19 y)
So I asked myself who should I pick first?
Normally I would say I go with the guys who have more potential but as I saw in the last seasons a Potential of 'all star' is quite enough to train a good player.

In the end I decided to pick a 5 */ 3 * Potential player who fits in my training concept first and then pick the players with 4* Potential to sell on the transfer market. because there a high potential really matters and managers pay a lot more for someone who has superstar potenial.

Its all up to if you have the luck and scout a great player who fits in your trainings concept I think. If not its the best you try to sell the players with the highest potential and buy a decent trainee.

Hi Petra,

A response to #2:

I am not an expert and I had until now 2 drafts, but I had the luck to always have exactly the players I expected (not 100% but still pretty good).

And I do check their stats. Of course it's also important how long they played in the match but in general I think you can read more in the stats than most of the guys here believe. If you need an excellent shooter right away I think it is not a good idea to go for a 1-13 shooter, just because he has high potential. On the other hand, if you look longterm you should concentrate on the potential to have the best results.

I want to thank you all for your help.
I got my drafts and its not what I expected but I am new and did not have too much time to invest it seems. Next season now