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You accumulate points all season... and you can carryover unused ones. I've had over 100 previously... I burned a lot when I demoted but I still have a a bunch and it looks like I'm not going to spend much outside of sorting 18yos and then just play the draft pick lotto from there.

Hey friends, I accumulated 100 scouting points and was wondering whats the best way to use them scouting the draft. Thanks in advance

1. Scout once all players (39 points).
2. Interview all players with 5 balls.
(2b). Interview all players with 4 balls.
3. Save unused points for next seasons.

So just waste points on scouting 19yos? That's bad business imho unless they have a chance to be drafted with 65-70 TSP [principally with good levels in 1 pos training skills, OD, ID, JR, SB].

Not saying its a terrible approach, it's just not an efficient approach, particularly from a financial sense.

Actually it's the best approach.

I really didn't want to go into a tirade but you left me no choice.

First, scouting all players once is 48 points 1 point per player. You'll be wasting 28 more points then just scouting for OD and ID for all players.

Scouting just 5 and 4 ball star rating doesn't help you find 5 and 4 ball potential. [getting quantitative analysis of 4 separate skills does more than star rating] And as I stated, this uses fewer scouting points.

The players that you'll 3 SP scout will be filtered better and you'll have more points to do so with in that method rather than blindly scouting everyone. The fact of the matter is that scouting points are money, and this is a game focused on not wasting money principally.

It's fine if that what you want to do, but don't come at me claiming it's the best approach with no anecdotal and/or quantitative evidence.

He didn't mention Group demo, but that does work. Good call.

The player you interview will be scouted and would know their OD,ID,SB [and DR which isn't important but can give you a glimpse into trainability].

Potential without TSP is worthless. 100 TSP players are far more valuable than 40 TSP 19yo ATG. The plan with my method is to find players you can turn into 100+ TSP players in the shortest time possible [preferably with a 60/40 guard-big split by 22].

I'd rather draft a 60 18yo TSP PAS than a 40 TSP 19yo ATG. Potential is only important if you are trying to sell the draftee... if you are trying to win and promote and build your team you want rounded, salary efficient players [with trainable POT; PAS or above].

If skills were useless why is TSP so prevalent? I agree there is a floor were you need potential to be [PAS imho] but potential beyond that is just icing on the cake. Same goes with potential, if you have a high POT draftee with no skills he'll be trouble to train to begin with.