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First playoff game will be 6/15 I am fairly sure. However last day to buy a player to use in the playoffs is after the league game on 6/12 I think. As we get closer to the day, all players will show on their profile what the last day to buy a player for the playoffs is. Any player that can't be used in playoffs (so any player being sold after 6/12) will have "ineligible for playoffs" written on their profile and on the transfer list.

You will have a over a week (about 2 weeks I think) after playoffs start to prerank your draft prospects.

OK that is plenty of time. I just want to assure that I rank them perfectly since I've spent so much on scouting so far this season. Hopefully my league's draft pool has one or two gems I might be able to snag.

you get about 2 weeks to change your draft picks order

Goodluck, but don't be too disappointed if you don't get anything good in the draft as it is entirely random.

Thanks! I know the really good players are rare. I went back the past 7 seasons of my league's draft and only about 3.2% of the prospects were MVP or better (Yes, I actually looked at them all....), so I know finding a great player is rare. I'd be happy with another perennial allstar or superstar to tell you the truth. An MVP or higher would just make my week (or year) though

Yeah top players are rare, but there are still a number of decent players that you can train up.
I got a 6k perennial allstar in the most recent draft, and now I can easily sell him for about 2 million and it is only half a season since I got him.
So just hope you get lucky.

Would you tend to draft potential over salary? Or only draft potential if it has a high salary to go along with it?

For me the most important thing is the age of the draftee. I will try and put 18 year olds at the top of my draft list. Your ranking depends on what you want to achieve.

If you want to sell the player, then try and get an 18 year old with high potential and decent skills.
So if I wanted to sell I would pick a 3 star skills and 5 star potential over a 4 star skills and 4 star potential.

If you want to train up a player, then you should be happy with 4 stars in potential (or even 3 stars in potential if you don't plan on training him for many seasons). If you plan on training him for a long time then naturally potential is more important than initial skills.

This is a personal preference, but if any of my draftees have 2 balls or less in skills then I put them at the bottom of the draft list. Also, if any of my draftees have 3 balls or less in potential then I put them at the bottom of the draft list (unless it is a 5 star skilled, 3 star potential 18 year old which I would rank highly but would probably sell for a decent price.

Also I would only take a 19 year old if they had 5 star in skills and 4 or 5 stars in potential.

i would say potential costs > than skills. draft list 1st thing you should look at - potential.

Last edited by Rycka at 5/17/2010 1:41:55 PM

May I offer a dissenting opinion?

Oakland is a division V squad, and a losing one at that. A single super-duper high potential individual will not really be worth much to him for 2 or three seasons -- and that to really develop this player's potential, we would be talking single player training -- in other words, something unnecessary to succeed in div. v and into div. iv.

someone could point out that a high potential draftee is worth a lot of money on the TL -- and that oakland could take that money and buy some more appropriate, useful players for his current circumstances.

to be losing in div. v means oakland needs players, plural. a good draft -- two decent players, sold, say, for a million dollars, could bring in three decent veterans, or two trainable players with much lower potential (say "starter" or "6th man").

oakland is right to be excited, though. a good draft could be the break his team needs.