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Again, that's not true. Scouting his boxscores on a different league is not that different from scouting on your own. You have stuff that won't change much, like FT% or game rating, and checking his opponent in a different league is just like checking who he was playing in your league... It's not like the teams in your league are all the same.

And slow it down with the "real world" argument. I agree that there should be a deadline for playoff transfers further away from the end of the regular season, but in real life this episode of your opponent having a new player you haven't heard of before is not unimaginable. Lots of teams buy players and insert them straight into the lineup for the next game. In the NBA you can argue that there are few players good enough to play there that teams wouldn't have heard of before, but you're in an israeli div III league, so there are hundreds of guys who could play there.

Take soccer (football), for instance. If Man U or Liverpool buys a new player to put him in the starting lineup, he's likely to be a top caliber, international player. In that sense, there should be plenty of info to scout him on. That in general may apply here. If a team in a top division buys a 200k center, he's likely to come from a good team in a good league, so his boxscores there will be meaningful. On the other hand, if Tranmere Rovers gets a new kid from El Salvador, chances are nobody else ever heard of him before. In this analogy, the Venomous Scorpions can be Man U, you are Tranmere Roveres (no offense to them)

It is far from current status on BB, where it is being exploited regulary.

With regards to your point 1)
In real life, this actually happens. Lets say, Perth Wildcats, hire a new college player from the USA to come down to the NBL (Australian national league) and play for them. NOBODY in the NBL will know about this player, and there is no way for the opposition to find out, until they see him player against other teams.

their best information is going to be from box scores from games he played in the USA and then from watching him play in the NBL.... This is the way BuzzerBeater currently works, and im happy with it.

But then it takes away from some of the game as well...

Keep tihs idea simple though. Maybe refine this idea such that
'A player may use one of their draft scouting points per week, to scout an opposition players skill level in one skill only (which may or may not be random)'.
What u think?

Yep i agree with that.
From a personal perspective, i dont know why you would want to scout outside your own league, but obviously from a national team/cup perspective, this has implications.
Thinking about this now though, i dont know how collusion between players would be prevented.
Manager X and Manager Y scout opposition Manager Z's best player. Then mail each other the respective results.
I guess this is why during the draft, everyone is "player 1, player 2" and everyone else has a different P1, p2 etc.
So yer hmmmmmm. a solution to that would be needed. Else a different way of looking at it.

It is far from current status on BB, where it is being exploited regulary.

Could you please add some statistics to this claim. How many teams (% of all teams in BB) add the highest salary player to their roster just before playoffs. No speculations, hard facts with possibility of linking info to prove it.

Think also when will it happen that teams will collaborate against another team - when that team is that strong comparing to the others, so they are looking for ways to overcome that team together.
Again, sounds reasonabel for me...

1) It is a no brainer to claim that, when it is such a great option to exploit.

2) Each team that was against those kind of suggestions and I looked at her transfer list have shown "clues" why they where against it.
I still haven't look at your transfers..

Think also when will it happen that teams will collaborate against another team - when that team is that strong comparing to the others, so they are looking for ways to overcome that team together.
Again, sounds reasonabel for me...

This is a big nono. Deliberately loosing to the collaborator team while tieing (with a large margin) and then crunching the team to overcome, just help the collaborating team to win the title. Thus destroying your own team chances to succeed is normal?