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Not trying to bash the BB game in any way, so please don't take it that way. But my draft was a complete flop and a total waste of money. I spent a few hundred grand on the draft, and could have bought the players I got off the TL for about $50K or less, combined.

And I scouted all the players and had multiple 5 star, 5 potential players at the top of my list hoping for one stud. I got nothing. Not even a trainee worth keeping.

As one of only 3 teams in my league not run by a computer bot, I expected a little better.

Anyone else have a bad draft despite spending big on it?

Anyone else find it cheaper to just buy your trainees than to try to draft them?

I assume at the higher levels of BB, it is especially true that buying your trainees is cheaper?

I swear I believe I could have had a better draft if I had allowed the computer to just randomly pick my players for me. And yes, I know I was #1 in my league and had last pick, but still, we had 15 bots in this low-level Div. 5 league, and those human teams don't train players, so I suspect they didn't even rank players for the draft.

Anyway, again, not trying to bash the BB game in any way. I love the game. Just blowing off a little steam over my draft failures.

I`ve been playing this game for many seasons now and unless I have a high pick I don`t spend anything on scouting. In all the seasons I have been playing this game I have never had a draft player that was worth keeping or had one that could sell for any decent amount of money.

Opinions will differ of course but spending on scouting for me has been money down the drain. The last two seasons I haven`t spent anything on scouting. I buy trainees and train them.

Maybe because you drafted like 15th or 16th?

Maybe because you drafted like 15th or 16th?

so what you are saying is you shouldn't invest in scouting unless you have a top 5 pick?

nop, yo should invest like 10-20k and maybe go for 19 year odl with last picks? cause nobody drafts 19year olds and sometimes they are really good. Sometimes you can get best draftee like 13th pick too, 2 drafts ago my league mate drafted 5k salary mvp with 13th:D and people say 13 isnt a lucky number. he was best draftee that year.

Yea, I drafted 16th I'd say. I finished #1 in my league, and won the championship. I guess I just figured with 15 bot teams in my league, I would get a better player. I got 6th man potential and such.

Again, I'm not bashing the game or sayign anything is wrong with the way it turned out, I completely understand. But I certainly hoped for better.

And before someone looks at my league and says there are more than 3 human controlled teams in the league, please note that 13 of those human controlled teams were added to the league in the last 12 hours.

So theoretically you falled into those 11% staticticaly unlucky people. who got their first 2 draft picks stealed by bots.

And BB thanks you for not bashing them.... ;)

I look at the draft as either a home run or a waste of time depending on how it falls. The only way you are going to get that once in a lifetime player for cheap is to draft him. So for that reason, some seasons, its definitely worth taking a shot. You could either build your entire team around that player or if you sold that player on the market you could really get rich quick.

Other seasons are more like what you described, you would have been better off saving your money and buying a couple of trainees on the market.

When your draft gets posted, look through the 48 players and you will see that there are only a handful at best that are good prospects. And quite possibly nobody that is truly the once in a lifetime guy. But get over it quick, its happened to everyone here at some point.

So theoretically you falled into those 11% staticticaly unlucky people. who got their first 2 draft picks stealed by bots.

I'm in the bottom 11 percent of the unlucky people? Hey, I'm moving up in the world :)

Yea, I don't even want to say I was unlucky. Being that I won the championsip and had the best record in the league, I got about what my team should have got with the last overall pick.

But it is a fact in most cases, unless you are guaranteed a very, very early pick, like top three or four pick, you're better off buying your trainees. I just went and turned my scouting points to zero and will keep it that way for the entire S19 season and will buy my trainees next season to see if it doesn't work out better for me. I think it will.

Personally i think, who doesnt risk, doesnt drink champagne. So id have risked in your place like you did.

btw cant wait for my own draft 3 people went bots:D so insetad of 8th i basicly have 5th pick now, want some nice draftees

Last edited by Gajus Julijus Cezaris at 2/6/2012 9:18:59 AM

Hey took my shot
more than 2 seasons woth of scouting
got a 4 ball 4 potential PG
that should be good..right?
wrong
guy sucks
not sure how he gets the salary he does...oh well