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But they got the advantage to see if using the 10 point options for size and age, and the 10 point option for the 1 and 2 ball players were worth using. They got reset and could now choose not to spend on those options. Information once revealed can no longer be fully hidden. Preferably, those teams with negative balances could kept their scouting options and had to pay to get into a zero or positive balance utilizing their future scouting expenditures. Of course, some of those people would cut their training expense to 0 so they wouldn't ever have to pay for this benefit.

I agree that this is the logical result.

you pay $5000.

But they got the advantage to see if using the 10 point options for size and age, and the 10 point option for the 1 and 2 ball players were worth using. They got reset and could now choose not to spend on those options. Information once revealed can no longer be fully hidden. Preferably, those teams with negative balances could kept their scouting options and had to pay to get into a zero or positive balance utilizing their future scouting expenditures. Of course, some of those people would cut their training expense to 0 so they wouldn't ever have to pay for this benefit.

You are right, there are probably a few that figured out how to benefit from it in the short few minutes they had to take advantage of it. On the flip side, its really mostly a wash anyway, because any of those players that are now concealed again, they will have to to pay individually to get that same info if they choose not to pay the whole 10 points, and that is if they were able to remember which players had which info, or were smart enough to quicklly take notes. I just dont think that overall many if any really got much of a benefit from it, and so few would have anyway, its not worth the hastle involved in a reset, or worth offending those who did things right, and like their results, and now would be punished for it. There is not one right answer, I would rather let the few 'scoundrels" get away with something, than all of the problems that could come from a reset. Lets just let it go and move on. We all have a game tomorrow!! i am excited about that!

the whole thing needs reseting. if you read the first 20 posts or so i was the first to notice the points issue could be abused and posted that the draft needed to go offline till fixed or people will get an unfair advantage , or use there points because they think they had more.

either way the current season scouting system is highly tainted as if someone gets a good pick people will think did he get that player because he found him during the point bug and then drafted him or did he really scout him properly.

for me the issues happened at 4am aussie time so im confident the majority of my league would have been asleep.

This is likely what will happen.

Bahahahahah, i get another chance! :) Maybe


Last edited by DonutDunker at 8/23/2010 8:21:33 PM

I agree that this is the likely result and makes the most sense. But the scope of the error is larger than you give credit for. It's all those people who didn't overspend but chose to pick the 10 point options that cannot undo that choice. When you see that you have 50 scouting points, it seems inexpensive to choose those options, but when you see that you have 20 scouting points, then maybe you choose the size and height, but not likely also the 1 and 2 ball stars. Since this was deployed so late, it will be hard to accumulate scouting points to properly scout the list. I think that is why some people are also upset that they don't get the opportunity to scout knowing with certainty how many points they have and will need to scout their top players.

some people are also upset that they don't get the opportunity to scout knowing with certainty how many points they have and will need to scout their top players.

I hear what you are saying, but I think when it really comes down to it, there is no way to effectively scout unless do the combine and the group event. There are only two possible reasons a person would want to go back and undo that choice...1, and its unlikely, that a person in their initial combine found a prospect or two they wanted to focus their efforts on, and go all in for that guy or two. Or the second, is that they didnt like what they saw, and with hindsight now are deciding a different strategy would be better. Again, that would be based on info they never should have had in the first place. Again, I really think that 99% of people who choose to invest in scouting would pay the 10 points each for those two items. Anytihng else is really drafting blindly. Again, hear you, and I understand the frustration, but at this point there is no decision that is going to make everyone happy. With that in mind, and the fact that so much of the world was asleep or at work when this happened, I am think it makes the most sense to move on and move forward. Just my opinion.

Last edited by Jason at 8/23/2010 8:35:27 PM

Yeah, I agree. After a moments thought it is good the way it is, and the way it was solved. The ones that plunged head over heals and spent everything before checking should consider themselves lucky with the reset. I don't think we will see a major impact on the draft either because of those brief overspent points. A total reset would have been worse. A small adjustment, a minor error, but all in all the most effective implementation of a new feature I have seen. I am more annoyed that my countrys U21 game was scheduled so early in the day that I missed the lineup and thus have no chance at a reelection... 12 PM, pffft...

My next wish is an optional timeline preference for 24 hours a day. I'll never get used to the AM-PM stuff... especially 12AM and 12PM.