Guys. I am outraged right now. I've based my entire teams tactics for the next ~5 seasons depending on the scouting which had shown me that I have a 5/5 balls prospect in both skills and potential. How come this player is 5 balls in skills? He is nearly untrainable. I would have never decide to take a hit and drop out of the II div if I knew it could be that bad.
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The only way to minimise the chances of receiving a total garbage player as your 1st choice is to spend scouting, interviewing AND unveiling every skill... which means you must gather some 90-100 draft points.
but, and there's a but
you can spend 100 points unveiling every possible skill of every player in the draft, have the 1st choice in the draft and the #1 player of that class is a 18yo 6k salary with allstar potential or is a 19yo 4k HoF with severe holes in 2-3 important skills!
on the other hand, you can spend 0k during a season, collect 0 draft points, end up with the 14th choice in the draft and receive a very good completely trainable 5k MVP because no one else scouted in your league and the gods of buzzerbeater were at your side! it happened to me more than once since the pandemic, 2 of those guys even made to their U19 teams (france and venezuela) and the venezuelan is still being trained and has a chance of joining the main squad in a couple of seasons.
not to mention that some seasons ago this issue was even worse because the maximum skill a draftee could get was 7! back then the value of scouting was extremely low.
they raised this to 9 and it kinda got less worse, but still...
all that said, after a while, this season I invested and collected 60 points... got an average prospect at best and two useless boneheads... to my fault, I kinda messed up the balls thing, for some reason I assumed the balls defined the potential, not the skills, so yeah, ended up with some very skilled bench warmers
to summarise: only invest in the draft if you have lots of money left and have very low expectations, otherwise the chances you'll get frustrated are extremely high.