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8520.6 in reply to 8520.5
Date: 12/7/2007 2:32:57 AM
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You're assuming that your league mates are putting maximum dollars into scouting. If they are not, investing in scouting could help out big time.

Actually, I'm not. I am only investing $10/wk in scouting, and as I and my league mates are all in div. III, $20k/wk is about the maximum that is really affordable. I seriously doubt anyone in my league is investing $40k on a regular basis.

I was just attempting to agree with the OP's suggestion for a running total of scouting "points" to be displayed. There are some weeks (i.e., those with TV games), where a club has extra $$ to spend on scouting, and some weeks where scouting more than a bare minimum is counter-productive. Fluctuations in the amount spent on scouting, (along with the fact that scouting for season 3 started before the end of season 2) make it difficult to recall how much scouting has accumulated. A running total would be nice, is all.

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8520.7 in reply to 8520.6
Date: 12/7/2007 2:40:08 AM
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I my conference and a lot of lower conferences, there are a lot of Bots. What's their scouting and drafting strategy? Is it just totally random?

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8520.8 in reply to 8520.7
Date: 12/7/2007 5:56:04 AM
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yes its random

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8520.9 in reply to 8520.7
Date: 12/7/2007 8:39:09 AM
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I finished last season as the only human manager in my league, and I got my first preference in the first round, and my second preference in the second round (11th preference in the 3rd round, for those keeping score).

In order for a bot to beat a human manager to a great player, I'd suppose you'd have to be pretty unlucky.

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8520.10 in reply to 8520.9
Date: 12/7/2007 10:52:00 AM
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For comparison, I finished last season with a league that was probably about half active managers, half bots. Maybe slightly more bots. I had the second best record in the division, so I had pick #15.

Round 1 - 3rd preference
Round 2 - 16th preference
Round 3 - 38th preference

Needless to say, that sucked. :) None of those guys are still on my team.

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8520.11 in reply to 8520.10
Date: 12/7/2007 11:31:42 PM
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Its a sad state of affairs when your third preference sucks...

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8520.12 in reply to 8520.11
Date: 12/8/2007 8:49:04 PM
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I don't know if you're knocking me or the draft system in general. :)

My third preference was alright - 18yo with a respectable skill or two, I believe. Just not what I needed for a trainee. I sold him for... umm, I have no idea. He's not in my transfer history, and his player page transfer history says that he's always been with his current owner. Weird.

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8520.13 in reply to 8520.12
Date: 12/9/2007 1:49:54 PM
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I don't know if you're knocking me or the draft system in general.


Was kinda knocking the draft system. And I imagine that a couple seasons down the pipe it will be in dire need of an update.

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8520.14 in reply to 8520.13
Date: 12/9/2007 6:52:32 PM
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Players on draft all have 18 years old or they could get 19..20. ?

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8520.15 in reply to 8520.14
Date: 12/9/2007 9:19:44 PM
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Last season they said rookies could be from 18-22 but I don't recall seeing a rookie above 19 yrs old.

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Date: 8/18/2008 1:16:38 PM
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I just opened a thread (45569.1) with a post that relates to this thread one year old therad. However, the thread was closed by GM-JuicePats with a link to this thread and no explanation, but I guess he means that I should move my suggestion to this thread, so here it is (together with following comments):

(45569.1) :
I would like to get infromations from my scouts continuoulsy, i.e. information should be added week by week, rather than in a big chunk at the end of the season.

I think this would have several advantages:

* It would add soem escitement every week to see the scouting results from that particular week

* You could adapt during the year, increasing scouting if you think your prospects are too bad or decreasing if you think you have enough information

* It would be easier for new users to understand what they are investing in, as they would get continuous information

* In the future the system could become more elaborate so you can tell your scouts what to look for depending on the information you already have (for instance check potential for a player that has been scouted once or scout a new player).


Answer by CrazyEye in (45569.2):
* You could adapt during the year, increasing scouting if you think your prospects are too bad or decreasing if you think you have enough information



This is the reason, why they don't implement it the BB are afraid that you spend more money because your friend find a 18 year old A+ % StarPotential player or maybe 2 two of them.

My answer in (45569.3):
That sounds like a strange motivation for me.

As long as their is some incertainty in he souting it does not help you very much to know that your friend has scouted a player that his scouts consider to be an A+ starpotential. Of course it s still helpful to know that there is someone that the other teams souts consider to be that, but still it is not a lot different fom two friends that share information about e.g. TIEs.

Then I do not hink it is very likely that someone would like to give away information about a potential star as they most likely would like to get the chance ti keep that star by themself, and giving information to their friend would dcrease the likelihood of getting that player without getting anything in return.


Last edited by chespirito at 8/18/2008 1:17:04 PM

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