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If you're having draft problems I feel bad for you son, I've got 99 problems but a draft ain't one.

I don't get what the OP is complaining about here. Witness went 0-22, presumably tanking, and got the first overall pick. There's a good chance that the manager also invested a large number of scouting points to ensure that he got the best player. The whole point of the draft is that there are no guarantees; only ways to increase your chances. In this case it paid off for Witness.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 9/24/2013 1:40:54 PM

What are or what should be the skills required to pick good players?
How to implement the "draft skills" in this game?


PS. You said it! So spend 40k/week if you want to get chances.

In this case: skills = money

And I'm glad we agree: if you don't spend 40k just forget the draft. Basically spending 5, 10, or 20k are money thrown out of the window.

Problem with the draft is that one season you will find 5 STUD players and for the next three seasons garbage and worse players.

What we need is a youth team system, where you get what you spend - I suggested that years ago, but we know whats possible here and what not.

Drafting makes absolutely no sense in a league system like that, where teams promote and demote. The game does not emulate US pro sports with closed ecosystems where you have to find ways to place goop players in bad teams. Plus, it is highly unfair that teams can get lucky in the lottery and make truckloads of money just because. Just take a look at my leagues draft of this season - 99% percent of the players are worth less than a pile of crap and then you find the pinnacle of the draft class selling for seven digit numbers.

If every team had a youth squad, where you could spend from xk to xxk per week, and you could define what type of player you want, it would finally make training and growing your own players worthwhile. Plus ith would help smaller nations develop somewhat competitive national team players.

Its not like selling one special player for a lot of money is a big deal, but 2.6 million in this economy is a gamechanger - with money like that you can get one to three finished players that will rock the league - its a slap in the face of every other team in the league that has to work hard for its money and success when somebody gets lucky like that.

Just as a comparison:
winning the cup: 300k
winning the league: up to 1mil
winning B3: 1 mil

So drafting THE player is like winning it all in one season - if you think thats fair...

I would love to see a youth academy on BB, it would bring more fun to game. Think its impossible, but its just a wish from one user ^^

I would love to see a youth academy on BB, it would bring more fun to game. Think its impossible, but its just a wish from one user ^^

I would enjoy that also.

I might also think that changing the draft pools entirely might not be bad. Instead of 18 and 19 year old guys with crappy potential/skills, maybe instead have guys be up to age 23 or so, with star - perennial allstar potential tops and at skill levels that are probably below what an 18 year old would have reached but maybe with interesting builds.

Each week millions of people pay money for the lottery. No one is forced to do so, btw. Each week a handful of lucky players get the jackpot of some hundred thousand $ or even millions. It all depends on luck. This is life, but life's not fair.

Same thing with BB and the draft: you don't have to pay for it, each of us has the same chance to get the jackpot. Seems unfair, but isn't.

As of now what I'm reading is mostly "draft is bad and should be better". I'm waiting to hear "The draft would be better if..." without screwing the whole balance of training (for example).

Yup, you're right. I've been working on different systems and hopefully in the next weeks I'll be able to post on the suggestion forums :)

Your statement is that this is a LOTTERY.

Question: why there is a lottery inside a game that would be "realistic"?

It's clearly unfair and you'll see it when one team in your division in 2050 will earn 3 m doing nothing and you'll miss the promotion due to him