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I love this site a lot. I've got 5 people to join and 4 of them love it, but I have to say, the scouting and draft process is by far the worst part of BB.

I suggested this before:

48 players, yah.

14 weeks of scouting.

At most, there's say 12 players in one position, but I'm guessing it's pretty even right? (9-10 per position)

For 5k, you can scout one position per week that position would yield four players. Hence, you'd have to scout one position 3 weeks (5k for the first, 10k for the second and 15k for the third) just to be sure you've scouted all the players, say SF.

Then after 3 weeks of scouting SF, you find out there are 9.

5*-1
4*-3
3*-2
2*-2
1*-1

For 20k, it takes you 1 week to scout any player of your choosing again. Say the 5*, and you get a stat line for two different games he played.

That's 4/14 weeks gone, but let's say you really want a SF, so you scout all three 4*.

7/14 gone.

Then you can move on to another position. Scouting say PF, and the cycle would continue. Then after a full season of scouting you'd have a report on only the SF and PF. Say 17 in all, and two reports on 8 of them.

Or, you could scout every position and it'd take you all 14 weeks with a small chance of missing 1-5 players.

Thoughts?


Last edited by Plotts at 8/24/2009 7:56:32 PM

Well a friend drafted a guy as SG and now that player belongs to Greek U21 NT as a PF. An other example: I drafted a player as a C and now after i train him as big man for 2 seasons is on Cyprus U21 as SF, with a new trainer who is training guards his height only 6'3. Considering those examples u r idea cant work.

P.S. My draft looks bad too.

Hey man, i spent nothing but found 3 5-star players...you really had a bad luck....

with your system, there will be even less reason to spend more then 5k in the draft then actual ;)

Hey man, i spent nothing but found 3 5-star players...

you are no exception... and that's exactly the problem.

What do you mean it can't work. If you want to train a SF by drafting C, then scout C.

This whole draft thing has been a problem for a long time. The BBs have read it and I'm pretty sure it's on their to-do list. So knowing the system is faulty, just stop investing in the draft. I spent zero $$ this season and I have 1 5-star and 3 4-star players.

Wish I hadnt of spent all that money from what others have said, also finding it impossible to change my order the players just will not exchange positions.

Finally am I right that theres no point spending money on scouting this week (mind you looking at my selections think that could hold for the previous weeks)

Any money you spend on scouting, starting this week, counts for the draft next season.

that's a completely different way of scouting and drafting. Much more control to you as manager.

to me, I would prefer to pick up which player to scout a second time, not by role, as roles can dramatically change (we haven't mentioned height!). However, that could be a good option.

I understand that BB's wants:
- encourage spending money in scouting
- keep draft not so deterministic (random is part of the game)
- probably (my 2 cents) not spend much time on draft before having definitely fixed GE (done) and new site

But don't forget the draft: it's a key part of the game!

I understand that BB's wants:
- encourage spending money in scouting

Actually, the last time this issue was raised (i.e. the last draft) I was told 'are you crazy spending money in scouts when you're having such a good record?'... so I guess you're right in saying that this point is not in a high position in BBs' to-do list, and I totally agree with you on the fact that the scouting and draft mechanisms could be much more interesting and fun, but I think that the BBs really don't care if we spend money in scouting...