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Yes i was contemplating doing this as well.

I took the view that

a) If i carried over my points from this season, into next season, then im resigning myself to poor draft picks this year. Which would essentially mean, zero return on investment. Unless i got EXTREMELY lucky.

b) The money i spend on the scouting points, would go into next years total. ie: 100K this year, 100K next year = 200k on 3draft picks. Yes im increasing my chances of getting the best pick in the draft, but by how much?

I started to try and analyse the odds of my tactic, but it just gets SOOOOOO confusing and hardcore, and too many 'ifs'.

So needless to say, at this point Ive got 3 guys with 5 star rating, which ive interviewd. Two were 19 years old, they had grades of A+, A- and A. Unfortunately their potential was 3, 3, and 2. crapola.

But the point is to try and minimise/maximise spending vs cost. And maybe these guys are in the top 5 players from the draft..... Maybe my first draft pick will sell for 300-400k? who knows? Depends on the market at the time and his final stats. We shall see!


So i havent found the best player in the league this season, using my low-cost method. :(

Point is possition in league, not money spent on draft. You are 5th in league, so You have picks #12, #28, #44.
And therefore You have small chance to get good player anyway, even if You would have complete information about all players in pool.
In my opinion it's better to cumulate points and exploit them when You will have worse season (and earlier picks).

Well, there are actually 3 teams in our league which are bot. (one will be soon, i dont think he has submitted a draft)... so I am banking on the fact that this helps me along a bit.

2 seasons ago i sold a guy whom i drafted at pick 8, for $400k.

and in the same draft, the guy i drafted at pick 41 i sold for $124k.
In the year before that, i drafted a $5.5k salary 19 year old with perennial allstar potential, at pick 13.

SO i really do think that, in this league, with bot teams and, maybe other teams not really spending money in the draft at all, it is a good league to trry and do what im trying to do.

Of course however, in other leagues, all teams may be active, and spend lots in scouting. Average for this league was probably about $10k per week.

So yer, there are heaps of other factors. Maybe next year if im going to be up the top of the ladder again, and most teams are active, ill give the draft a skip. Not this year though :)

I didn't spend any money on scouting points in the past few seasons, so it's a "no cost" draft strategy.