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I didnt expect a great pick this year given im the most dominate team in my league so i have been scouting players from the beginning of the season. I have scouted 13 players so far and of those 4 of them are 18 years old with 5 star rating. 2 with 4 star potential and 1 with 3 star and the other 2 star. I have also 2 4 star 18 year olds with 4 star potential. I consider that a win considering i have been scouting randomly lol. Hopefully i can land 1 of them to get money out of them or train and sell another trainee. The two 18 year olds with 5 star rating and 4 star potential look like great ones though. one is a 6'6" SF and the other is a 6"8 PF. I also have a 5 star SG with only 2 star potential but he has an A+ rating and he is 6'2" and has a pretty good box score.....if only box scores really meant something because he had 29 points 6 rebounds and 6 assists lol.

well lucky you, my draft class this year looks untalented compared to last season(i had a 5 balls 8th pick HOF and a 5 balls SF with star potential) but this season all the 18 yo gaurds are 4 balls only.

i think u should forget about the 2 star potential he's either a role player or a 6th man.

I had 9, count 'em 9, 18 year old 1-2 ball word of mouth players turn into 5 ball players last season with the group demonstration. I didn't end up scouting anything worthwhile, though.

I'm considering doing it again this season because I've just flushed 27 scouting points down the toilet

For me, it depends on how many 18 (vs 19) year olds it covers. I almost never purposely draft a 19yo. If you've got 8+ 18yos (and then a good number of 19yos) covered by demo it's worth it. I did it last season and the talent spread from the guys demoing was actually more 5's and 4's than 1's and 2's -- the "initial impressions" are almost uselessly off-base. One of the 19yos wound up being in my top 5 ranking because the draft as a whole was so awful, so I suppose I got my money's worth.

This season the Demo covers 8 18yos and 11 (!) 19yos for me, so I'll see where I land record-wise before deciding what to do. If I hope to get a guy worth anything with my 2nd round pick I'll do the demo and rank up those 19yos. The 10 points on the demo scouts the 8 18yos once (8 points of value), so if 19yos are worth (2/11) points each for me I might as well do the demo. I think I'll wind up doing it again.

Sorry for the awkward structure, sort of stream-of-consciousness responding.

i've got these guys:
- 5 balls A+ with 4 balls potential 18yo
- 5 balls A- with 5 balls potential 18yo

who is better? what salary is a A+ and a A-?

Hey this is only my second draft so am hoping you guys with a bit more experience can help out.
first up - what sort of potential can I expect for a 3ball draftee?
also I have a 6'10 draftee who's position is apparently a PG, how does that work? does this just mean that he will start out with good passing/handling skills etc???

Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers guys

Hey!

Second draft? So this means it's your second season on BB. Hope you enjoy the game ;-).

I'm not that experimented but no one has respond to your question yet, so let me give my opinion:
- 3 ball draftee: If a prospect drops out a 3 ball potential it means you'll draft a star or all star player.
- 6'10 PG: It depends on how many balls this draftee has pop out regarding his star rating. If he has 5 star rating balls this mean he'll have respectable primary stats for a PG (passing, handling like you mentioned).

This is my understanding of the draft though. I may be wrong, even if I don't think so, but if so: hope that someone can explain the correct draft process.

Last edited by Pipat Kitamakin at 11/30/2010 5:48:17 AM

Is the "group demonstration" worthwhile? My assumption would be a strong "no", so much so that I wonder if I'm missing something here.

It depends on what you are looking for, but I think Group Demonstration is almost never worthwile except in the case someone already mentioned: If there are more than 10 18-year olds with one and two balls.

It is worthwile, however, if you are looking for both 19 and 18-year olds. The thing is, I can't think of any reason someone would want to pick a 19-year old over an 18-year old rookie. I think you can't compare any 19-year old rookie, who is coming from draft, to a 19-year old who has already have a full season of training and came from draft a year earlier as a 18-year old.

In my draft, I first wanted to see the ages and heights of all draftees, so I used Scouting cominbe function. Which is, in my opinion, the best way to go. After that, I found only 4 18-year olds were among 1 and 2 ball rated players. Since I wanted to see only 18-year olds, using Group demonstration would be a loss of points. Why?

Group Demonstration is the same as "Scouted once". But option "Scouted once" uses only one point. So if I used Group demonstration to see all four 18-year olds, I'd spend 10 points on a thing I could use only 4 points.

I hope I made myself clear, since I'm not a native english speaker...

i've got these guys:
- 5 balls A+ with 4 balls potential 18yo
- 5 balls A- with 5 balls potential 18yo

who is better? what salary is a A+ and a A-?

First of all, it depends on whether you are drafting the player to train or you are drafting the player mainly just to sell. If you're planning to sell, then I recommend drafting the second draftee with 5 ball potential. Young player with high potential can be sold for a quite good price on TL. You could always argue that the first player has a better starting skill because it is A+, but I personally think that there isn't much difference between + and -. And you could always train A- player for the first few weeks and get his weak skills up, then sell him etc.
A+ is definitely better than A- but I don't think the difference is very significant. Not sure about the salary though.

It depends on what you are looking for, but I think Group Demonstration is almost never worthwile except in the case someone already mentioned: If there are more than 10 18-year olds with one and two balls.

Yes and no. In my case I had 9 18-year-olds in that group so you could argue that it's not worth the 10 points. But in my case I found 2 19-year-olds in there with a 5 skill rating. Their box scores look pretty nice so if I have enough scouting points in the end and if these 2 have good potential and the right position, they might still make it to the top 5 or top 10 in my list.