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From: kLepTo
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Date: 8/28/2010 1:22:25 PM
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How would you guys/gals feel about being able to sell draft rights on the TL? Maybe the sale would include an x amount of scouting points that has not been used by the owner. Once he puts it up for sale, he can longer use 'em to scout players. Teams will be able to move up and down the draft chart so maybe a sale can only be made during the POs. Basically, you're drafting a player that's not in your league. This might boost TL activity during the playoffs since players aren't sold as often during that time.

I know this should be in the suggestions thread but I just want to flesh out the idea first to see if there are major drawbacks.

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Date: 8/28/2010 1:28:25 PM
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More points would give to much advantage to those with a better draft pick. There has to be some hope for people picking later in the draft.


How about adding more players to the draft? Same three draft picks per team, but benefits last pick teams by allowing players to go undrafted if they are just absolutely horrible (and hopefully replacing them with less horrible players).
Otherwise if your last pick in a fully active league, you really have no motivation to scout and draft.

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Date: 8/28/2010 1:35:18 PM
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If you dump 40k from the beginning you can do the combine and group demo, along with 9 fully scouted players. If it was increased to 11 by giving more points, i still think thats a tad light considering the number of players in the game. Whatever, though, that is my humble opinion and we are all on the same boat..

If there are 14 weeks of spending on scouting, that means you could have 56 scouting points. Spending 10 on the combine and 10 on the group demo leaves you with 36. It takes 3 points to scout & interview a player, so that's 12 players you could fully scout. And that's if you didn't find any among the 19 you scouted at the group demo to bring in for interviews. Since I've yet to hear of anyone not finding 5-ball star rated players from the group demonstration, I expect you could probably bring 12 in for interviews and still have a few points left over to just scout 2 or 3 players.

That said, I also wouldn't mind there be an additional option of spending $80,000 per week on scouting to get 5 points. At the max, that would give someone 70 points for scouting, which would be 16 or 17 fully scouted players after doing the combine and group demos. Other strategies could result in more or fewer fully scouted player.

Last edited by Alec Burke at 8/28/2010 2:32:05 PM

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Date: 8/28/2010 1:40:11 PM
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I like the idea of adding more players to the draft pool and having undrafted players.

From: Jason

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Date: 8/28/2010 1:55:03 PM
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How would you guys/gals feel about being able to sell draft rights on the TL?


Love this idea!!

Last edited by Jason at 8/28/2010 1:59:14 PM

From: Jaakki

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Date: 8/28/2010 2:03:44 PM
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Same here. Best undrafted prospects should then become free agents like in a real world. This way we didn't lose best players if they went undrafted. And then it would still make sense to scout on players if you're winning your league.

From: oriolekid

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Date: 8/28/2010 2:06:38 PM
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Wouldn't work. If they buy these draft rights for an obnoxious price, how would they be able to access the leagues draft list? They couldn't.

From: Jason

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Date: 8/28/2010 2:16:32 PM
Arizona Desert Storm
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Actually it would/could work...they would be buying the "rights" not the player. A guy could advertise:

"I have the 8th pick in my draft. My league has 11 bot teams, and 5 human owners (only 3 are actually really active all the time). Pick for sale! buy now while you can!!"

Starting Price: $50,000

You could make it a blind purchase like that...Or the buying team could specify the criteria of what kind of player they are hoping to buy. 18 year old, 6 ft 7 and up etc IT can really crazy and detailed like that...but it could also be fun.

From: Kukoc

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Date: 8/28/2010 2:56:42 PM
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You guys need to understand that draft has certain value. If we just look at it from league level, spreading it out to bigger number of individuals lowers the quality per player. I remember BB's saying, that it's pointless to create more players that go directly to retirement.
As for the sell draft on TL, really bad suggestion. Creates extra opportunitys for friends to co-op/cheat. Why would you need to draft 6-9-12 players? If you need a certain player then ask your countrymen to draft that and then buy it on the transfer list. This would create so much hassle for nothing. I can see people already buying 300-400k worth of points for 50k. It would be like a direct transfer, that's exactly why we have TL, so every deal would be out in the open. Not done behind closed doors.

Last edited by Kukoc at 8/28/2010 2:57:50 PM

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