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149547.27 in reply to 149547.26
Date: 7/1/2010 1:04:11 AM
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Working as intended:)

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149547.28 in reply to 149547.25
Date: 7/1/2010 3:30:25 AM
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The idea is that teams in mostly bot leagues can't finish really high in their league and also draft really well - as in real life, you get one or the other.

But this has a high risk of seriously damaging all the national teams of all the small countries in the world, plus it really takes away a lot of the fun for everyone in leagues with even one or two bots.

For example, what would you do in my situation: I know that in the last 3 drafts there have only been two players that have had (pretty) good base skills and very good potential, plus I know that there will be one bot this season. Unless the initial valuations are completely wrong, if the trend holds, the player (given there is one) who is far better than all the rest should have a much higher valuation then everybody else, and the bot will be sure to pick him up with the first pick. So, since I can pick up from the market a player that is worth pretty much what any other draftee is worth, outside of that single guy, why am I supposed to invest in the draft? And what if you wind up in a division with 2 or 3 bots?

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149547.29 in reply to 149547.28
Date: 7/1/2010 3:46:57 AM
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Can you wait until the first draft is done. You can't really speculate how on target the initial information is. Talking about small countrys? With small countrys there are bot cleanups to punch them all together to that 1-st or 2-nd division. Countrys with 15 or 80 users should not actually be supercompetitive at worlds anyway. Or should they?

From: Newton07

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149547.30 in reply to 149547.19
Date: 7/1/2010 4:28:32 AM
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I don't want to discuss about the new system but I want to say that is not acceptable to have a big difference among II.1 - II.2 - II.3 - II.4; I mean that in our division the best player drafted is an 8k salary with potential 8, in another division the best player drafted is an 3k salary with potential lvl 6. To be fair the system must have more or less the same players.

I totally agree with you on this.
The difference in the draft lists among different leagues in far too big. And I am not talking about the best one or two players.

Just to make an example concerning the potentials (but the same can be probably said about salary, age, roles...). There was not a single draftee with potential 8 or above in my current draftee list, while there were 6 in the draftee list of SerieA two seasons ago.

Last edited by Newton07 at 7/1/2010 4:28:58 AM

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Date: 7/1/2010 5:27:20 AM
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TBH if you want everything to be equal, then there should be decent draftees only in div1, meaning their 3-rd round would be better draftees than div2 1-st round. We should not talk about guys over 1k salary at div5 level.
I like the changes, because now you have the suggested latter and no base draft points. You have a lot of options. You can scout early and see that those first 5 listed are not really decent and remove scouting investment. You can wait for the ASW and get to know all ages and height. You can go blind and draft Kwame Brown or Lebron James.
Everyone was saying how draft was boring etc. It is completely new now, with a lot of options and you can allocate your investments. Is draft the best it can be?, don't know but it's definately a major improvement.

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Date: 7/1/2010 5:31:42 AM
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TBH if you want everything to be equal, then there should be decent draftees only in div1, meaning their 3-rd round would be better draftees than div2 1-st round. We should not talk about guys over 1k salary at div5 level.
I like the changes, because now you have the suggested latter and no base draft points. You have a lot of options. You can scout early and see that those first 5 listed are not really decent and remove scouting investment. You can wait for the ASW and get to know all ages and height. You can go blind and draft Kwame Brown or Lebron James.
Everyone was saying how draft was boring etc. It is completely new now, with a lot of options and you can allocate your investments. Is draft the best it can be?, don't know but it's definately a major improvement.

What??

That would be the exact opposite of equal. The strong would get stronger and the weak weaker. The balance he was talking about is between draft pools in all divisions, with which I totally agree.

Last edited by SpicyMcHaggis™ at 7/1/2010 5:31:55 AM

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149547.33 in reply to 149547.32
Date: 7/1/2010 5:52:14 AM
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Yes, but everything can't be equal with random involved. That's the point. Some seasons your draft will be weaker some years stronger. It's not like every IIdiv league is equal in strenght, hell not even different sides of one league are equal. With this new system you can check your draft early. If it's not what you like then keep your money for the TL at the start of the season.
It would be pointless to put all the great draftees to Vdiv aswell, as most of them would just go to waste. So learn to enjoy a bit of random.

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149547.34 in reply to 149547.33
Date: 7/1/2010 6:15:07 AM
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I agree with you completely.

This topic was brought up in the draft pick questions thread as well. Either people don't understand what random means. IMHO or they're just bitching because they didn't get a nice draft pick.

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Date: 7/1/2010 6:24:50 AM
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or maybe there's someone who thinks that the game would be more enjoyable if the quality of draft classes become a bit more "regular".
i'm one of those that think that the quality of top prospects in draft pools is too much different from one pool to another.
i understand what random means and i'm not bitching: i just happen to have a different idea than yours.

to all posters: please avoid flaming and use rational arguments to discuss. remember that people can have different opinions and all of them can be legitimate.

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Date: 7/1/2010 8:07:20 AM
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I think you are giving too much importance to the baseline rankings. As we said, this is ranking is a very rough guideline. Since botteams don't scout, they use this guideline. I don't expect to see the top talents ending up at botteams all the time. Sure botteams might get a better overall player than in the old system, but I don't think it's gonna be a huge change in leagues with 1 or 2 botteams.
The reason we removed the random picking of botteams to this system, is that teams in a league with lets say 14 botteams got too much of an advantage above other players. They could and win most games, and pick the best talents. If you are in a league with that many botteams it will certainly be somewhat harder to get the best talents, but for most managers (there are few leagues with that many botteams) you won't see much of a change.

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149547.37 in reply to 149547.22
Date: 7/1/2010 8:21:26 AM
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I agree on this one with you. Why can't bot players be left aside and take what's left? Of course it would give advantage to those who are in leagues with a lot of bots but then at the same time, they would actually have a chance to catch up quicker with the teams in the higher division and the number of bot teams probably (just probably because not sure on this) doesn't variate that much in the same division (lets say from V.1 to V.2). Just to strengthen the argument, national teams (U21 and NT) are worse off with bots picking randomly and this especially applies to weaker countries with fewer managers, where few good players taken on by bot teams can make all the difference for them! Parden my not excellent English, had a bottle of wine tonight ;]



but it makes it unfair, betwen the league, if you take your example, with V.1^and V.2 compare V.1 with V.60, which will be a better comparision.

Because if in V.1 a manager left, you will get a new one pretty fast, in V.60 you most likely have some bots because, it just get filled when V.1-V.59 are full of humans.

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