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It seems like luck is a bit too much involved with the process. What pro basketball team really just picks players out of the blue without knowing much about them.

I shouldnt complain really because I have been doing well in the leagues I am placed. But when I started looking at what players who had finished above me had gotten, it seems as if I had gotten hosed. I had the luck of having a friend placed in the same division/league that I was in. He took second I believe and when it came time to draft day he was ecstatic about his draft and I was left in the dust. Keep in mind we had spent the exact same amount on scouting all year. He had finished higher than me and somehow I had an unbelievably poor draft. When we came down to looking at how he had done well and I had done poorly, we boiled it down to he just got lucky with his picks.

I can understand a team catching a 6th round miracle ie a tom brady, but thats what once every 10 years if you are lucky? Their needs to be a re-evaluation of the draft process that doesnt involve luck which allows teams who are finsihing second in a league to get a blue chipper and team that finishes 4th to get the shaft.

Not that the draft is a perfect system, but it's not perfect in the pros either.

Check out the 1995 draft:

(http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/1995_draft/scout/pf.ht...)

I bet the Warriors wouldn't pick Smith if they could do it over.

I bet the Warriors knew how old and how tall Smith was when they picked him.

If this was a baseball sim, I'd mention Miguel Tejada, Cubans in general, etc.

But it's not, so I'll shut up.

Even if it were, I doubt that a one year age difference would mean the player loses half his value in real life.

It's pointless to keep making comparisons to real life sports.

It's pointless to keep making comparisons to real life sports.

Isn't BB based on a real life sport?

Sure, there are many realism-baeed things you have to forego in the name of playability, but you can't completely ignore what happens in real life.

If that were the case, I'd have a team full of Borgs and Thetans who scored by dropping the ball from the rafters. (please don't try to make sense of that, I don't understand it either)

Very loosely based.

And I can't believe you don't see the difference between the training aspects in a math-based game and the ones in real life.

Of course it is. OTOH, one must accept that a part of it will never have a counterpart in real life, no matter how you spin it.

And I can't believe you don't see the difference between the training aspects in a math-based game and the ones in real life.

That's one of the things I was referring to when I said that not everything could be realism-based, since you're sacrificing too many gameplay considerations.

Were you expecting me to spell out everything I meant by that?

haha well joe smith wasnt that bad as a rookie.
who could have known that KG becomes such an impressive player over the years.

And I think the BB drafts are quiet ok for only its 4th season... sure it can improve but in my opinion it is one of the most exciting parts of a season and a reason for that is that u cant be 100% sure what u get even if u get a 5 Star A+ with Potential 5 Stars :)
Ok, the difference between those 5 stars was a bit huge but sometimes u are lucky and sometimes not. U cant always win otherwise it will get boring soon .)

Well, since the thread is about the draft, and the draft means young players, which means trainees, I really don't know why any other aspect is relevant.