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48 players in the draft = 144 points required to scout them all (assuming you don't use the combines).
If you are earning 12 points per 200k then you need to scout for 12 weeks to have enough scouting points to see everyone.
200k x 12 = 2.2 million.

If someone wants to spend 2.2 million to look at the entire draft then let them. They only get 3 players, and even if they find 3 really good players, chances are that someone else in the league will get the player instead.

So if someone wants to buy the whole draft you should be glad they waste their money. You can get 20 points worth, use them effectively to find some good players, and you might get the player they want even though they can see the entire draft.

Also, 2.2 million that they spend means that you are 2.2 million dollars closer to catching up to their team.

And what about those, who have millions? They would buy the whole draft.

That's a good reason not to just allow the purchasing of scouting points, as being able to buy points whenever you want would lead to very rich managers just purchasing 5 at a time until they were happy they had scouted sufficiently. This wouldn't really require all that much strategy.

On the other hand, adding an option to purchase 5 points per week for $80k or $100k, would limit the total points a team could purchase. With a total of 14 weeks, that would be 70 scouting points if done for an entire season That would allow a lot of scouting, but on the other hand it's also a total of $1.12M or $1.4M being invested. More likely it might be something a team would do for a week or two at the end of the season when they see where they are going to finish and feel that investing in finding the right draft pick is a better option than using that money elsewhere.

It's also something that might take money out of the economy in a way where the larger and more competitive countries would not be affected at all by the smaller countries where people say it is easier to make money. If teams in some countries are able to operate at profit levels which allow them to spend a lot on scouting to find the best player(s) to draft, their spending that money on scouting points has no impact on anyone other than the teams in their own division, who should also be able to make that same strategic choice since they are operating in identical conditions.

EDIT: You can scout the entire draft with 135 scouting points - assuming that all the drafts begin with the initial baseline distribution of 9 - 5 ball, 10 - 4 ball, 10 - 3 ball, 10 - 2 ball, and 9 - 1 ball.

Last edited by Alec Burke at 8/24/2010 3:07:44 PM

Alec Burke understand my point

It can work, but in order to be even more interesting after the All-star break the BB's can give us an option like: chose between 1. buy additional points (but no more than X per week) and 2. Scouting Combine/Group Demonstration options. :)

hmm that would be interesting :D