BuzzerBeater Forums

BB Global (English) > Wee! New scouting system!

Wee! New scouting system!

Set priority
Show messages by
This Post:
00
149547.72 in reply to 149547.50
Date: 7/2/2010 12:17:37 PM
Koopasaurus
ABBL
Overall Posts Rated:
298298
For that matter, as has been pointed out several times by people trying to convince us to go to a system more like the present one, you didn't really have to have scouted LeBron to know that he was at the top of his draft class. In fact, under the current system if you discover such a talented player in your draft pool, you will even be able to estimate pretty well where he'll go in the draft order and plan accordingly.


That is another element that can be used as part of a strategy, cos as soon as you know there is a Lebron James in the draft, you can proceed to tank the season. This is exactly what Boston Celtics did to try to get Oden or Durant when they tanked the season.

This Post:
00
149547.74 in reply to 149547.73
Date: 7/2/2010 8:43:46 PM
LionPride
III.11
Overall Posts Rated:
246246
The BB's aren't trying to play god.

And a Q for the BB's: Can you give a rough estimate in terms of weeks on how long it will be before this new draft is available.

From: Fresh24
This Post:
00
149547.75 in reply to 149547.74
Date: 7/3/2010 8:47:35 AM
Syndicalists' BC
Naismith
Overall Posts Rated:
303303
If the main issue of the new scouting system is whether bots should choose randomly or follow their rough baseline, I think the system will have been a huge success because it addresses a lot of the issues that have been brought.

This Post:
00
149547.76 in reply to 149547.73
Date: 7/3/2010 1:30:22 PM
Koopasaurus
ABBL
Overall Posts Rated:
298298
I'm not suggesting that it would make it more fair or not.
I'm referring to this quote by one of the BB's:

In fact, under the current system if you discover such a talented player in your draft pool, you will even be able to estimate pretty well where he'll go in the draft order and plan accordingly.


What I'm saying is that under the new draft system if you found out that there is this talented player (Lebron James) in your draft pool, then it could be a strategic move to tank the rest of the season to get a batter chance at getting this once in a lifetime player.

This Post:
00
149547.77 in reply to 149547.74
Date: 7/3/2010 3:58:09 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
1515
And a Q for the BB's: Can you give a rough estimate in terms of weeks on how long it will be before this new draft is available.
I'm wondering this as well.

Also, a logistics question: You say that "Scouting points may be spent at any moment until the draft is run, but cannot be carried over into the next season." What that would have meant this year is that when the economics update ran on Monday, we would receive how ever many scouting points, and would then have only a handful of hours to spend them and rearrange our draft lists before the draft started at 11AM.

Last edited by broncoWI at 7/3/2010 3:59:03 PM

From: Kukoc

This Post:
00
149547.78 in reply to 149547.69
Date: 7/3/2010 4:33:02 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
13361336
You agreed with this division equality.

I quoted the text because you agreed with it. Your own quote adresses the same thing.

This Post:
00
149547.79 in reply to 149547.76
Date: 7/3/2010 4:36:19 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
13361336
So you are talking about, tanking the season, thus losing a lot in income + relegating (which Boston did not have to fear) and losing even more income the next season. You still might draw, 4k salary with bad skill distribution good height superstar. Would it really be worth tanking the season???

From: Hadron
This Post:
00
149547.80 in reply to 149547.79
Date: 7/3/2010 7:05:50 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
3333
Any news on when the new system will come into play? And when it does, will the scouting money being spent now be converted to points all at once?

This Post:
00
149547.81 in reply to 149547.79
Date: 7/3/2010 11:27:29 PM
Koopasaurus
ABBL
Overall Posts Rated:
298298
Well if I scouted a 5 ball talent, A+, 5 ball potential, 18 year old, 6'6" SF for that draft...

Tanking the season and losing all that income you just mentioned may not be out of the question. Again its a strategy that could be played out and it depends on the individual situation for a team, doesn't mean its a blue print for every team.

Advertisement