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Played years ago and did fairly well, but forgot everything. Just rejoined. Have 28 scouting points to use. I'd like to get a stud PF or C to train in the draft. What is the best way to find these prospects using the scouting points?

Is Scouting Combine worth the 10 pts? HOw about Group Demo? What should I do? Maybe just save the points since 28 may not be enough to scout everyone properly?

And question for you, many years ago it was widely talked about that it was easier/cheaper to buy your prospects than to use all the money to scout and draft them. True or no?

Hey, I agree with what MrJ just pointed out. I would also consider saving up the points for the next season and really go all in then. Especially, if you would not be willing to get max points over the next weeks.

Though, as was discussed in the forum at the beginning of this season, I'm not sure if you would really be able to use the points gotten for the draft in the third week (into the first week of the new season). It shouldn't work, as theoretically the draft list should be locked on 12th of October now, but there were managers reporting being able to spend these points beyond the date, when the list locked. So if that still works, you would get 16 points at most, though if not, only 10 points to actually use in the draft.

Just a comment for an alternative approach, if you really want to spend the points now. But note, I wouldn't consider it better or worse in comparison to what MrJ just described, just an alternative. With so limited draft points, you will need a grain of luck anyway.

Now assuming you will max out your draft points, you could spend the "regular" 20 points on Scouting Combine and Group Demo. Then you would still have 20-26 points left. Then from the players, whose rating you revealed, focus on the 5-star-rating players, but consider interviewing only the taller players (I would say, height at least 206cm/6'9'', ideally more), as they will be easier to train for the big skills. Though for a solid PF, you could go for slightly shorter players too, as they also benefit for some guard skill training at some point. In that way you might find 2-4 players that suit these criteria, so you could spend 4-8 draft points to interview then, to know their potential. If you have any 4-5-star potential ratings, great! Then you could spend the rest of your points for scouting some of the other players on the list, beginning with the tallest ones and interview any players with 5-star rating. In this manner you would hopefully be able to find another nice PF/C talent.

With this approach, you would solely go for the rating-potential-height information and ignore any specific skills. Though, if you have a very certain type of player in mind for training for your roster, it might be better to go with MrJ's approach, where you get some skill information too.

In my opinion, especially for the 19-year old draftees, it would be beneficial to know some of their skills, as they have a season less for training, whilst for the 18-year olds, you can still begin with the generalized training, with no previous information on the specific skills. For my taste, the skill Demos for 10 draft points would be too expensive, if you have so limited points available, so maybe focussing on 18-year old draftees would make sense.

I'm interested in any comments or ideas any other manager may suggest.

I always invest 3 pts/week, so I have about 40 points to spend every season.

I always do group demonstration first, because there are always 6-7 five star prospects among those "1-2 stars" draftees. Then I scout those 5 star players and there is usually at least one with 4-5 star potential. That's my nr1 pick. I usually spend about 25 points by then.

The rest of the points I spend by scouting rest of the players in order.

I've been doing this for at least 20 seasons already, often I was at the end of the picking order, and the result is that I curently have 6 HOF potential players and 2 MVP.

I'm mainly looking for high potential players for training, so if you're aiming for same, give it a try.

Last edited by Pihija at 9/24/2025 3:30:40 AM

Spend 20 points to showcase 4 skills that you're interested in. Then sort your draftlist by revealed TSP. You'll be likely to get one 19 y.o. with some decent starting tsp and a random potential.

Leave the rest of the draft points to stockpile for a better time.