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Team 1 scouts everyone once. Team 2 can't do the second scouting until it has done the first scouting. And it can't do the first scouting on the 5 star players because there is no way to tell which player is 5 stars.

Lets consider this:
There are 5 players in the draft.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Team 1 scouts them all once.
1. 1 piece of info
2. 1 piece of info
3. 1 piece of info
4. 1 piece of info
5. 1 piece of info
But team 2 and team 3 still see:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
i.e. nothing.
Now lets say player 4 is the only 5 star player.
According to you team 1 will tell team 2 and 3 to scout this 5 star player.
But there is no way for team 2 and 3 to know which player is the 5 star player as number 4 in Team 1's list is number 1 in team 2's list and number 5 in team 3's list.
Team 2 and team 3 would have to scout the players once until they managed to find out which 1 is the 5 star player.
Now they have scouted the players once, and they know which is the 5 star player.
But Team 2 and Team 3 had to do their own scouting! They couldn't use anything that Team 1 told them.

how you`ll know those of them are 5* or 4* players if you`ve scouted them just once???

How you`ll be able to compare your lists if you haven`t scouted all the players twice to get some useful info to compare...

How all those teams will scout all the list twice if it`s impossible to do in the time you have?


The only thing you can do is that X teams cooperate and firstly scout hole list once spending 40k/week:

48 team would cost 48/4*40k= 480 000 for each cooperating team (12 weeks)

then they are working on PGs, so you would probably see 48/5=9.6 PGs, so let it be just 8 in this case
4 team are sure that they have 8 PG in the list and wont miss any of them as they have scouted hole list
Now they have to reveal 2 part of info as HEIGHT and AGE do not say much about players abilities

8 players (4 of them has PG, M, 18yo) so they all have to scout those 4 players to compare something

4/2*40k= 80 000 each team (2 weeks)

it`s already 480k+80k= 560 000 each team (14 weeks)

then you have to scout other 4 players (those are totally different comparing info), so if there is:

2 teams cooperating it would cost 40k each (1 week)

so finally you have Rating, potential, grade, height and age about all 8 PGs on the list spending 600 000 and 15 weeks each team.

I wont go farther as the season has just 15 weeks and you still can`t be sure about the info you have as there can be some same info about grads and potential, and you haven`t scouted anyone of them 3 times so you cant compare which one is better...

And If I alone scouted best player you have on you list too, so all of those teams cooperated loose at least 560k each as I have better draft pick ;)

Peace mate (=

Last edited by ZyZla at 2/14/2010 7:31:55 AM

Ofcourse teams will need to scout some players first time aswell. But they know how much 5-4 star players there are to look for.
So to those that still do not understand, team 1 only goes for the number of good skilled players in draft. The other teams scout randomly until they find such players. Then scout all of those twise after that they compare the results.

You can not throw in money comparison atm as you don't know how much scouting investment you need to scout every player once. If 5k a week gives you one scouting point then. You actually need 8 weeks scouting with 10k and 6 weeks with 20k. Thats a total of 200k. With this you would get every player scouted once. The other two teams could go for the same sum. Having 48 scouting points would give them both a valid chance to find all those 4-5 star players scouted twise. Now compare that info to any other team scouting alone.
Position, age and potential are enough to compare those players.
Your number crunching is so wrong that it leaves me wondering, did you finish high school :D

Your number crunching is so wrong that it leaves me wondering, did you finish high school :D

8 weeks scouting @ 10k = 16 players
6 weeks scouting @ 20k = 18 players
16 + 18 = 34 players
hmmm that seems a tad short of the 48 players in the draft. Good maths skills :P

48 players in the draft.
Lets assume Team 1 spends 40k per week to uncover 4 players at a time (which is the quickest way).
This means that Team 1 would spend 12 weeks of the season to scout every player once.
This = 480k and would "apparently" reveal all the 5 star players (Are you meaning they have 5 stars worth of skills? Because this cannot be determined on 1st scout).

Every team get's base 14 scouting points for free. So even if you do not invest in scouting you have some basic info.
It's nice to be clever, but not when it comes back to bite you in the ass ;)

I realise you get 14 scouting points for free, but you don't get that until the end, and there is no gaurantee that the 14 points will be used to scout the remaining players. Those 14 points might uncover second level data for some players.
So for your "plan" to work, team 1 would need to scout as I said, and not rely on the 14 extra data points.

Pay attention. If this overhaul will be implemented, teams can assign those 14 points or they will be randomly used as first scouting only.

Okay, even if they are used as first scouting, they are not used until the end of the season. Hence you will not know what those 14 players info is until the end of the scouting process, which means the other teams would no longer be able to scout for those players.

Suppose that all people posting in this thread are dear friends in the same league. What I see is that they will not be able to reach a common strategy to share informations about how sparing money in the draft. I realize that, above all, may be it's possible, but surely it's rather difficult. :)

PS: Why do you think that position should be part of the draft report? In my opinion one should know height labels (first scout) and differential skill ratings (second scout). If I'm looking for PGs, I will not further scout players XL or XXL, I don't care about their actual suggested positions. After second scout for S-M players, I will not set at the top of my list S players skilled for big men.