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Here’s why I like the new draft a whole lot better the old one:
I can assess how I did, learn from the draft and how I ranked the players, and think about how much I should invest in the next draft.

Since I know the age and height of all the players, I can now look at the draft and match the actual players with who they were when I was still ranking them, and I can get an exact match on all but a few, and the few remaining I can narrow down to one of two players. Based on this, I can see if I was picking the best player available each round, evaluate if I had enough information to make the best possible picks, and think about what I may have done differently with more information or if I was just getting lucky with limited information.

My preliminary assessment is telling me that I actually did pretty close to the best I could with the information I had, and that I had enough information to make sure I could get a very trainable player with the #5 pick, and that I had good enough information to get a second round pick that I might even be able to sell. For the first time in many seasons, maybe ever, I feel like the money I invested was not a total waste of resources, and this was nothing like in past drafts when it was actually very possible that my later round draft picks were definitely better than my earlier round picks (that actually happened about half of the time). This last point is probably also partially attributable to other teams having better information so that the best players were generally drafted earlier in the draft and not left over in later rounds (which I could clearly see was the case based on the draft results), another sign that the revised draft is a big step closer to a real draft and not the nearly random rookie lottery that it used to often feel like. Hurrah.

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You explained very well what I thought about the system. I invested a lot on two draft i had participated -


Last year I picked up an 18 hall of hamer I am training with great results - the 2nd was a 18 super-star I sold for 575.000 after half a season training.

I just spent everythng i had 40.000 each week (sometimes 20.000)

This year I picked up 14° and I took the 3nd most valuable player of the entire draft a superstar SF 4000k.
The best player was a PG historical 18 (5th choice) and he was my 4th choice
the 2nd most valuable player was my 2nd choice a 19yo historical (A+) with 5000k.

And this season I spent 20.000 and sometimes 10.000 or 0

I really enjoyed this draft.

I like this draft because I will still pick three benchwarmers/janitors but at least I can choose them

Woo-hoo

I don't want to be misunderstood,I think that the new draft system is WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better than in the past...but the average "height/position/age/potential" level of the actual draft is too low

I don't want to be misunderstood,I think that the new draft system is WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better than in the past...but the average "height/position/age/potential" level of the actual draft is too low

I don't understand what you mean. Could you please rephrase that last part.

I don't want to be misunderstood,I think that the new draft system is WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better than in the past...but the average "height/position/age/potential" level of the actual draft is too low

I don't understand what you mean. Could you please rephrase that last part.

but the average level of the actual draft is too low because many players have bad age/skill/potential/height

hmm I agree that many players have bad skills and bad potential. And I personally hate 19 year olds because they are no better than the 18 year olds so I agree with that. But I don't necessarily agree with the height. From what I've seen the height varies quite a lot.

Also height excludes some players with good age,potential and skills...when I see 185 cm centers with decent potential,good inside skills but with very bad outside skills,I can't consider him as valuable for a training or a sell

Last edited by Steve Karenn at 10/7/2010 4:29:07 PM

Also height excludes some players with good age,potential and skills...when I see 185 cm centers with decent potential,good inside skills but with very bad outside skills,I can't consider him as valuable for a training or a sell

In my opinion that is a problem with skills not being high enough rather than the height being bad. If he had good inside skills and decent guard skills then it might be very good to get a 185cm center.