I know all too well that the deadline can be confusing because there's no set time. In season 19 the scouting wasn't closed until after the financial update on the day of the off-season processing, allowing me to use the scouting points from that update when I really shouldn't have been able to. This caught me out in season 20 when there were more interviews I wanted to do in the draft but couldn't because unlike the previous season, the scouting closed the day before, resulting in the following you-know-what storm in the forum:
(223882.1)Moral of the story is you should plan to do all your scouting and pre-ranking by the
Saturday before the off-season processing at the latest. Do not procrastinate.