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You are the luckiest person alive. In my leagues draft last season I don't think there was a single player that good. In fact in all of Aussie division II there was maybe one guy as good as that. $20,000 a week I spent, I got probably the 4th best guy in the entire draft and sold him for peanuts because he simply wasn't worth training.

Hi all. I'm relatively new here. I found couple of great prospects for the oncomning draft, like the A+ 18-year-old one with 5 star rating and 5 star potential, but I was wondering how does the draft work for the computerised players, as there are quite a few of those in my league. Do they always choose players in order 1,2,3 etc. or at random.

Last edited by Gammarax at 3/28/2011 12:20:57 PM

Last season I ended up with the second worst record in my league, giving me the #2 pick in the draft. However, the team finishing with the worst record turned BOT like a week before the draft, giving me the edge in the draftpick... Just that my number one choice, a 18-y-o PF 5 / 5 / A+ guy, was the number 1 guy in the draftlist... so I thought that since the BOT team had #1 pick I would lose him... BUT as it turns out, BOT teams doesn't follow the 1-48 list, instead that team ended up with a 2k salary nobody, and I got my #1 pick!

(Not sure if this is what you were wondering about, but I thought I'd share my joy anyways...)

The 1-48 list is different for every team.

Yeah I have seen some bad draft before as well. I know some GMs who invest nothing and just invest the 300k on buying a rookie each year that they like.

where do you see this A+ ratings.

what is the colored ball and the hollow ball mean?

and how come players 1 to 48 have a decending hollow ball? do you mean the computer already arranged all players based on hallow ball already?

i did read that already im just confused whats the colored ball and whats the hollow ball and where is this A+ ratings they keep talking about

I dont want to spoil you, by answering the question directly, so before reading this, please read all the draft related topics.

you start with a list containing player1- player 48.
this list is random for every team.
players have hollow balls as their star rating. The balls are hollow, because it is only an estimation
if you scout them once, you get the real star rating, the hollow balls turning into orange balls.
(a 5hollow ball player can turn out to be an 1ball actual, just like an 1 hollow ball can turn out to be 5ball actual)
interviewing a selected player will give you a lot more information:
age
height
position
grade rating - is only a finer scale for star rating, as you have surely read in the topic
potential - this is what everybody is after (a 5ball A+ guy with 1-2 ball potential is almost useless, because you cant really train him further)
to see all these information about a player you have to scout and interview him once. costing you 3 points
(or you can use the group demonstration to interview all the 1-2 hollow star rating guys)