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From: raonne

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156.38 in reply to 156.20
Date: 6/23/2007 2:23:16 AM
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one sugestion: perhaps the training page could should how many players we have scouted this season so far...

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Date: 7/12/2007 12:49:58 AM
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When is the draft?

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From: jbmcrock

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Date: 7/12/2007 12:58:57 AM
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I think I understand the draft ranker but would like to make sure. I assume the higher the star rating the better, and the grade starts at A, then B, then C and so on. The other criteria I have figured out.

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156.42 in reply to 156.13
Date: 7/12/2007 2:49:38 PM
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OK, from reading this thread (thanks everybody for the input!), we'd like to suggest the following plan:

About 1 week before the draft, we will create 48 players which are the player pool for the upcoming draft and we will process your scouting. You will be able to scout a random player from that pool between 0 and 56 times depending upon whether you have scouted 0,1,2,3, or 4 players each of the 14 weeks you were allowed to. You might end up scouting a player more than once, but no more than 3 times.

That information is then displayed on a draft page where you can select a preference list. The players appear in a random order, so that you cannot combine your draft information with that of another team in your league and figure out the skills of other players --- if your friend tells you that there's a great shooting guard out there, you don't know which one of the many shooting guards available to select, so it doesn't help much.

If you have scouted a player 0 times, you will be shown just whether they are a guard or a forward, and nothing else.

If you have scouted a player 1 time, you get their best position, their age, and a rating from 1 to 5 stars based upon their current skill.

If you have scouted a player 2 times, you get their best position, their age, a letter grade from F to A+ (meaning, there are 13 possible grades), and you are shown their single best skill (for example, respectable jumpRange).

If you have scouted a player 3 times, you get their best position, their age, their salary, and their four highest skills.

You then rank your players from 1 to 48 at any time up until it is draft day. You will have to rank the players you know nothing about someplace in your preference list, and it will be up to you decide at what point to take a chance on somebody instead of selecting one of the players you know about.

The draft processes in 3 days, each day being one round and where you select one player. You are allowed to edit your preference list between rounds, but during the live drafting rounds it will be frozen and one pick will be displayed every 10 minutes until the end of the 16-team round.

Please let me know what you think - a few of your suggestions were very helpful to us in coming up with this suggested plan, and if you have any ways we can alter this and make it even better, please don't hesitate to tell us!


written by BB-Charles on post (156.13)

How much of this is still valid? Where can we see the players "best position, their age, their salary" ?


Edited 7/12/2007 2:55:33 PM by arvie7

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156.44 in reply to 156.43
Date: 7/12/2007 7:37:42 PM
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Just one question, the rank of teams picking a draft, is that done according to the win-loss standing from the end of the regular season, or do playoff achievements play a role?

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156.46 in reply to 156.45
Date: 7/12/2007 10:00:07 PM
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oh.. come on..

I had 7 level 5 players on my initial list, now things got redone to help out newcomers (which is on the other hand unfair to old players), and now I lost them... but ok, it happens..

but what about the money heavily invested on the draft already expecting that the newcomers wouldn't have scouted as much... I only invested that cause I knew even though my rank on the league would be high, I would have a chance of scouting more players than the others and hence get some decent players on the draft... now that is over. a few hundreds of thousands wasted..

very unfortunate...


Edited 7/12/2007 10:19:44 PM by arvie7

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