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Hello everybody.

I am new to the game and just have a question about the draft.

How much do you put into the draft?? I am putting in $40kpw. Am I putting in way more than I should be?? There is only myself and 1 other human playing in my league. Should I keep paying it or drop it and save the money.

Thanks.

Considering only 2 teams are managed - you most likely will get the best player out of draftees.

On the other hand, even tho I will get one of first picks, I only invest 20k, because it feels more optimised.

Keep in mind what you need to scout players. Old school way was to do the combine and demonstration especially if there are a lot of 18yo with 1 and 2 balls. That's 20 scouting points. Ideally you want to look for 5/5 (ability/potential) players possibly with the right height for the type of player you're interested in developing and with A+ ratings. If you want to thouroughly scout the draft you need a lot of scouting points.

Also the stated position reveals information about the player current skills. An A or A+ guard prospect listed as C or PF will have great inside skills which are harder to train. Same thing for a tall player listed as PG.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 6/11/2019 8:55:12 AM

I used to, and now also am investing 40k. because have no extra draft points from previous season.

The worst you can do is to invest like 20k; spend 45 points at draft and not even find 5/4 player... if you against bots you must be sure to atleast scout the best player in draft. If you on top of league you have like 30% chance you wont get first one, bot will draft it so you must find 2 or 3 best players to have very high chance of drafting.

Investing in the draft is not very fruitful economically speaking. This is because draftees have low value unless you get lucky and get a good MVP or higher potential player. There might not even be one such a player in your draft class. Since you don't have any real competition for your draft class, you could invest a little to find a decent player, but I would strongly advise against 40k/week. 10k/week at most (since that's 5k for each point instead of double that at 40k).

As a new team your best investment is in your arena, and some cheap veterans that help you win some games to fill your arena. Once you have a nice big arena which brings in most of your money, you can start spending it on fun stuff like a trainer and trainable players. Even then, it's usually more effective to buy a trainee instead of drafting one.

Good luck!

With that logic 30 points, do you assume it is enough to scout best or few best prospects, being such high at bot league chances bot will snipe first choice is around 30 percent; sniping both 10 percent and all 3 4 percent. In my opinion it is two choices either not to scout or scout 2-3 minimum prospect you would want to draft. You can always save leftover points and not to scout further the season, untill you dont have draft board safest is to scout 40k/week. Then you can see depending on the innitial results. The worst thing you can do is lack 2 points and not draft best player because you hadnt enought points to properly scout it...

In this logic it is sufficient enough to jack up three from the opposide free throw line, it is still 3 points if it falls in, why bother trying to shoot from corner, you might lose ball dribbling it....?

10k/week is ok if you saving points for a bad season or you have leftover from previous one, or even tanking and youll pick first, it might be enough. But for full scouting 45-60 points needed in a draft.

And you are right. Arena is the most important thing, everything else comes next.

Last edited by Vilkai [LTU NT] at 6/11/2019 4:02:57 PM

I second this suggestion. Invest in the arena +$10k/week. Do not spend any point in the first draft and then next season try to get one of the top 1-2 pick and spend the points then.

Last season I think I spent over 80 points and we had 2 5/5 18yo and another 2 or 3 5/5 19yo. It was a very good draft although most players ended up being MVPs (I got the only 18yo HoF). I scouted all the 18yos and the 19yos from the combine plus some random 19yo with interesting height. Of course 80 points is 4 seasons worth of 10k/week points.

I think 10k/week + buying the first set of trainees is best (perennial all-star, superstar and even allstar can be useful). When they are finished in 5 or 6 seasons, then do go for the draft.

So are you saying if I don't spend my draft points this season they carry over to the next season and so on??

Yes.

Yeah best choice would be to not spend any money/points on this draft. But since not everyone plays this game to 100% optimally strategy wise, I included an option that's a fun too because you need to have fun in order to keep playing this game.

Drafting is throwing up a hail mary in any case, wether you spend 80 points with the #1 pick or 25 points at some other pick. Also, it's not 3 points or bust for a new team, a 50+ TSP superstar is awesome to train for a beginning team too.