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A new draft is being released today, and here I am to propose improvements for the next draft, maybe next season. :D

My idea is this: instead of showing the boxscore for 1 game, show the boxscore with the player's averages of the entire regular season in college. If the scout analized him twice, then you would get also the players average in the post season of college basketball. The second part of this idea is that we should have more than 48 candidates. I think it should be at least 60 (with 12 to go undrafted) or maybe even more.

The advantages of this idea: more information, more decision power to the users. And the bigger number of candidates would be to prevent the exchange of information between teams, since we would have more "blanks" (players we know nothing about). The max someone would be able to do is say "hey there is an excellent point guard here, with 7 assists per game", but the other guy hearing this would never be able to guess which one of the many blanks he has would be that one, and the probability of trying to guess would be extremely low.

hehehe.. I couldn't use the word "scouted" because I was proposing that the scout was considering the player's averages of a whole season, so I tried with "analyzed" in the sense that the scout was analyzing the info and reporting to us, hehehe :D

I was going to suggest that the scouts of different teams watch a player in different games, so that they would be presented different box scores. This might even permit the scouting to go on during the regular season, and you could choose which players to take a 2nd look at, or to modify your scouting budget based on how scouting went.

The second part of this idea is that we should have more than 48 candidates. I think it should be at least 60 (with 12 to go undrafted) or maybe even more.

The advantages of this idea: more information, more decision power to the users. And the bigger number of candidates would be to prevent the exchange of information between teams, since we would have more "blanks" (players we know nothing about). The max someone would be able to do is say "hey there is an excellent point guard here, with 7 assists per game", but the other guy hearing this would never be able to guess which one of the many blanks he has would be that one, and the probability of trying to guess would be extremely low.

I like this part...

I think that if this part will be done, teams which are below on a league table will lose their's advantage to catch a good player before the other will do that

more players, no more competition between a teams to be a first in draft round - 48 is exactly what we need for 3 rounds

I think that if this part will be done, teams which are below on a league table will lose their's advantage to catch a good player before the other will do that

more players, no more competition between a teams to be a first in draft round - 48 is exactly what we need for 3 rounds

No, the point is that the extra players who will be added will be bad players. This will be just to decrease the probability of a team guessing that a "blank player" is a good player. This will not affect lower teams at all, it will simply make it harder for teams to "guess", which will affect maybe the top teams (so they cannot count not even on luck anymore) and avoid the "exchange of information" cheat.

Good Suggestion, i like the possibility of there being talent that goes missing... but maybe they could re-appear in next year's draft. Unfortunately you dont get a look at who to draft until the end of the season(lame) but i wish they could somehow incorporate a developmental league where you can actually have open discussions about players and such... and see how they do throughout the year. Or maybe a "mcdonalds all american game" to go right alongside the allstar game so you can get a brief look at who may be in the draft.

. Unfortunately you dont get a look at who to draft until the end of the season(lame)

Necessary.

. Unfortunately you dont get a look at who to draft until the end of the season(lame)

Necessary.

Is it?

If I can share information with other teams during the season, I can do it in the 2 weeks before the draft. And they could simply generate a different game for the initial scouting.