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i agree that is unfair but seriously what can we do? its done, and unless you have a time machine to fix everything, just deal with it

i wose puting from bigining 10k on that and i only have 8 points?????????

I'm sorry guys if this has already been discussed, I tried to go through this monster thread but I didn't find an answer: the draft instructions say that scouting a player once costs 1 point, scouting him twice costs 2 additional points.

So, that means that fully scouting a player costs 3 points, right? Just to be sure, before I try to think of any strategy.

And, ahem, did anybody try the Group Demonstration option and is willing to share how inaccurate the baseline ratings are? I was wondering if one can expect to find any 4-ball or even 5-ball in this way...

Thank you.

I followed several guys who make it and there is a general consensus: it is pretty inaccurate.

Thank you, that helped.

And btw, so far I've only scouted a 5-ball player and I got a 5-ball star rating, so 100% accuracy for me. :)

But no really, even factoring the baseline inaccuracy I still think Group Demonstration is hardly worth it, unless you know you will have a very low pick and you want to spot some decent, mid-level players.
In my draft list I have 19 1 or 2-ball players, I think I'd rather spend those 10 points on 10 players with a base of 4 or 5 balls.

Still curious to hear other peoples' opinion, of course.

Well I found 2 players with 5 star rating and about 5 players with 4 star rating. So I think it's definitely worth the 10 points, at least it was in my case.

When I did group demonstration 6 of my scrubs turned out to be 5 ballers. 4 of them turned out to be 18 so I think the demonstration was the best thing I did.

I followed several guys who make it and there is a general consensus: it is pretty inaccurate.

Thank you, that helped.

And btw, so far I've only scouted a 5-ball player and I got a 5-ball star rating, so 100% accuracy for me.

But no really, even factoring the baseline inaccuracy I still think Group Demonstration is hardly worth it, unless you know you will have a very low pick and you want to spot some decent, mid-level players.
In my draft list I have 19 1 or 2-ball players, I think I'd rather spend those 10 points on 10 players with a base of 4 or 5 balls.

Still curious to hear other peoples' opinion, of course.

Eight of my guys from the group demonstration ended up with 5-ball star ratings, four of whom are 18 years old. On the other hand, the two 5-ball baseline guys I scouted both ended up being 4-ball star rated.

I must have a really crappy scout...

I found 9 five ball players and two 4 ball players out of the worst 19.

Maybe my league had a lucky group of players.

But still I don't trust my scout :0. So now I have to have each of those guys in for practice and spend 40K for the next 4 weeks.

Scouting the best players from the stat line seemed to indicate the scout does better when he actually sees them play !

Tested on one of the 5 star unscouted players...he ended up being 3 star when watched.

Only will have 16 scouting points. Hopefully I will get lucky with those and find some 5/5'ers. Got 8 chances on 7 5 star+1 4 star. Thinking my odds are against me. Thinking I may find some 4/5 and 3/5 though considering the atrocious stat lines of the players.

Found 2 5/3's 18 year old's thus far. Thinking if I get some decent picks, that I will train around them for next year. Even though I am training "bigs" this year...I suppose the tax will affect me at some point. But right now its not trade killer. I am also at a level where all my players are cheap, so there is little incentive to keep training short or big.

Roll the dice in my case and find some 5/5'ers hopefully.

Last edited by lawman at 8/24/2010 5:27:53 PM