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154960.308 in reply to 154960.306
Date: 8/24/2010 8:07:15 AM
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Just a quick summary of what happened for everyone here.

1) After releasing the new draft system, it appeared the scouting points were wrongly calculated for some managers. Some received too many, some received not enough.
2) A few hours after the reports we fixed this, but in the meantime some people already spend their points. (this is also the reason some of you got less points than when you logged in yesterday shortly after the draft was released.)
3) After recalculating everyone's points, some people showed a negative number.
4) We decided to reset the whole socuting for the affected teams.

We will discuss whether we need a reset for all teams that spend points between the release and the fix soon.

Apart from this all, I thought the moral of the last few years was to not spend anything you don't have or aren't supposed to have. I guess we are facing a new crisis soon! ;)

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 8/24/2010 8:07:57 AM

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154960.309 in reply to 154960.307
Date: 8/24/2010 8:07:47 AM
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My question is this.Do players show up in the same order for all of us?

Last edited by bobzavras at 8/24/2010 8:08:04 AM

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154960.310 in reply to 154960.309
Date: 8/24/2010 8:20:56 AM
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They do not appear in the same order. Otherwise people would cheat and share information with each other.

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154960.311 in reply to 154960.310
Date: 8/24/2010 8:22:51 AM
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It costs 1 point to scout a player once.
This will give you a more accurate ball rating for skill and the recommended position.
If you want to see height, age, potential and a more accurate rating of the skill of a player then you need to spend an additional 2 scouting points.

So basically 3 scouting points to see everything about a player.
Basically, if you scout 20k a week, you get 1 full player a week. Or you could scout 3 players once.

Last edited by Naker Virus at 8/24/2010 8:23:45 AM

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154960.312 in reply to 154960.311
Date: 8/24/2010 8:25:43 AM
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My 5-ball baseline ranking player number 1 turned out to be a 1-star scrub after I scouted him.

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154960.313 in reply to 154960.225
Date: 8/24/2010 8:26:52 AM
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The combine tells you nothing that the interview won't tell you. If you do the combine, you still have to do the interview. There just aren't enough points for both. I'd rather do the group workout, and after that, get as many interviews in as possible.


And there aren't enough points to intereview all the players, either. However, it is possible to do the combine and group workout and then find all the top 18 year old prospects in the draft pool. You can't do that through interviews alone (or if you can, I haven't figured out how yet).

Sorry, RIP has it right here.

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154960.314 in reply to 154960.310
Date: 8/24/2010 8:26:54 AM
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Still u can cheat sharing same information but dont think people would do it cause they want the best players for themselves :)

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154960.315 in reply to 154960.314
Date: 8/24/2010 8:30:18 AM
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True, sharing information does seem like it will be a lot easier now...oh well.

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154960.316 in reply to 154960.315
Date: 8/24/2010 8:35:43 AM
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I wouldn't want to share the information to my nearest rival so that the top talents end up on his team instead of mine, but if anyone thinks that's an effective tactic, nobody stopts them.
I don't think this changed much in the new system though, you could also share this info in the old system in the two weeks between the edit draft order list, and the draft itself.


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154960.317 in reply to 154960.316
Date: 8/24/2010 8:40:23 AM
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Here is my own personal system that I developed if you are spending $40K per week:

-do the scouting combine and group demonstration
-ignore all 19 year olds, focus on the 18 year olds
-interview all 18 year olds with 4 and 5 ball skills
-then start at the top of your list, scout each player starting with the 5 balls and going down (remember, only 18 year olds)
-if you hit a guy with 4 or 5 balls in skill, interview him

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154960.318 in reply to 154960.316
Date: 8/24/2010 8:40:27 AM
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Well lets say me and my friend are in the same league. He is at the top of the league and I am near the bottom. I might want to help him out by sharing the list, I know I will still get a better pick than him but at least he has more information now.

Also, the reason it is easier to share information now is because people will use the scouting combine and people will easily be able to compare the age and height with someone else to more easily identify the player. This was harder in the old system because there wasn't anything specific to compare.

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