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im in the same situation, all bots! Thinking the best thing to do is to sneak into 4th come finals, that way you still get to promote, but get better draft picks? Thoughts?

When I was in an all bot league I got my 2nd pick. Which was ok but nowhere near as good as the 1st pick. Same bot team got best player with pick 1 the season before. 2 HoF guys to the grave yard.
But in saying that I got a guy I did not interview as a 4 baller as my 2nd pick who was HoF and made me some good cash.
So chance of getting a couple of decent picks if you are lucky.

yeah, so by finishing 4th, you can try and get say pick 9 in the draft, as opposed to pick 16, therefore minimising the chance of your first pick getting lost in space. Not only that, but your 2nd pick will be say pick 25, instead of 32.

Question is, does this outweigh the good attendance cash you may get from going 22-0??

Im very tempted to start paying for 4 draft pts a week for the whole season, and really getting the the cream of the draft to the top of my list...

Unless you have a real poor roster you should find it hard to lose in a bot league.
You would almost need a backup side of real bad players to lose enough games IMO.
And the extra chance of getting a better player are very minor.

I did some scouting and wages are really low for 18 year olds. Hardly anyone over 4k. Had a look on some of the other boards and quite a few people are unhappy that their 5 ball players had low skills.

Makes scouting annoying because its usually over 4k and skills are beginning to look good but now it might be over 3k.

Last edited by aussie dude at 11/27/2012 8:28:56 AM

After reading all about this season's draft it's all a bit disappointing. I spent a mere $10k on scouting and got this guy:

[Australia]
Scott Michael (27605687)
Shooting Guard
Weekly salary: $ 2 907
Role: draws a paycheck
(BuzzerBeta)

DMI: 0
Age: 19
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: average Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: average Handling: awful
Driving: average Passing: awful
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: atrocious
Rebounding: atrocious Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: awful Free Throw: mediocre

Experience: atrocious


Not sure what I want to do with him. Could get some cash for him on account of potential but then again maybe I should make him my 3rd trainee. His height and potential are good, his starting JS, JR and OD are okay but his secondaries and age suck. Hmmm.

i did some analysis of our draft as a whole (see below for the full post) - but the key message was peak salary being $4783 BUT the next best salary was $3300.
So i think u might be right. Maybe they are calculating them 'lower' in general now as well compared to previous seasons?


OK season 21 draft stats for Div II.3

First off in summary - what a shite draft.
Number of players in the draft with that potential.

announcer 1
benchwarmer 14
role player 6
6th man 9
starter 3
star 7
allstar 4
perennial allstar 1
MVP 3

That equats to 3 players with 5 ball potential, 5 with 4 ball potential, 10 with 3 ball, 15 with 2 ball and 15 with 1 ball.(or thereabouts).... Either way, 30 players were useless as trainees. But seriously, 14 benchwarmers? unbelievable.

I graphed salaries, and in general, as the pick number goes up, the salary goes down, which suggests that some people were actually picking according to star rating. Peak salary was $4783 BUT the next highest salary was nearly $1300 less than the top..... 25 draftee's had a salary UNDER $2000. whilst another 15 had a salary between $2k and $3k which means 40 players in the draft had a salary under $3k, which is just staggering.
In ther first round, 11 teams got their first pick, 4 teams got their second pick whilst Tannum tantrums got their 3rd pick. Proving again, that all you need to do, is find 3-4 players worth drafting, and you will get him. Even in the second round, the lowest preference was 7th.

The general consensus on the forums is that the old salary formula was being used for rookies/low skills but now rookies are just in line with current salary formulas.

right - so peoples expectations of what a 5-star A+ grade talent shouldnt really be based around salary anymore, because, with most other things, salary is no longer an accurate guide for this.

thanks for confirming.

Roughly a 25-30% decrease in salary calculation. So any draftee with 4-5k+ salary is like the old calculation of 6-7k+ draftees.

yer cool, id figured as much, but it never really affected me so i never looked into it.

still... 14 benchwarmers. If they are gonna do that, then there needs to be a new staff member called "Carpenter' and he will specalise in making longer benches, which are in dire need of warming.