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256775.73 in reply to 256775.72
Date: 6/15/2014 2:04:48 AM
Moosas Mad Men
II.3
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I forget how many seasons I have played this game for now but I maintain my stance that the draft is a waste of money. I saved my points once and I have never been more disappointed with what drafted. I have got better players spending $0. If you spend 20K a week on scouting for two seasons (about 500 - 600k) then you could have just bought a good young player for that money. If you spend 40K (1mil - 1.2 mil) then you are probably someone that thinks you will win money playing the pokies.

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256775.74 in reply to 256775.73
Date: 6/15/2014 4:53:12 AM
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you should only ever pay $5000 per scouting point (ie: Max $10k per week) unless you need an extra point or two or do something extra in one week.

I love the draft :)

3 MVP's, 2 Superstars, numerous Per-allstars. I think only season (that i spent points) did my strategy not work for me.

so yer - I love it :)

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256775.75 in reply to 256775.74
Date: 6/15/2014 10:17:55 AM
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I've normally been of the same mind as Moose. Last season in the ABBL I figured out early that I was going to tank, so put money into scouting.
I managed to pull in Jack Chan, who is only a superstar but had pretty good starting stats. Hoping to give him a shot at U21 in a couple of season!
Sounds like you've been pretty lucky Regan!

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256775.76 in reply to 256775.74
Date: 6/16/2014 12:00:06 AM
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I love the draft as well, and have done pretty well over the years (1 HOF, 1 MVP, 1 SS, 2 PA's). Unfortunately when i first started Buzzerbeater (season 20) I didn't know much about the game. I sold my 19 year old hall of gamer for 190K I guess markets weren't as strong as they are now.

This draft is an interesting one i've been doing 2 points for the whole year and did manage to find a 5/5 player, sorry to anyone who found him as well, as he is my number one pick. I'm excited to see if any HOF's come out of the woodwork.

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256775.77 in reply to 256775.76
Date: 6/16/2014 12:03:43 AM
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how many points do you think you have spent so far on this seasons scouting/drafting?

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256775.78 in reply to 256775.77
Date: 6/16/2014 12:11:40 AM
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Number of scouted players - 5
Group demonstration - 10
Number of Interviewed players - 6 x 2 = 12
so 27 points, some carried over from last year.

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256775.79 in reply to 256775.78
Date: 6/16/2014 12:28:22 AM
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Is that the order in which you performed the actions? Or did you do group demo first and then scout?

Also - how did you determine what players you wanted to interview?

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256775.80 in reply to 256775.73
Date: 6/16/2014 12:29:07 AM
Kira Kira Koseki
ABBL
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Second Team:
Yubi Yubi
I forget how many seasons I have played this game for now but I maintain my stance that the draft is a waste of money.

Allow me to present my counterpoint...

(25103755)
(25103763)
(28768870)
(30030473)

They all came from the draft, and that's not even counting two other draftees that I sold for good money (one of them fetched 300k!), or the 19yo allstar that I drafted last season and have as a secondary trainee now...

And for the most part that was whilst only spending 10k per week on scouting. I was spending 20k for a couple of seasons when I was trying to find a 5/5 to turn into my franchise player, but once I managed to draft Cicvaric at the end of season 22 (bot league), I came back down to 10k.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 6/16/2014 12:33:36 AM

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256775.81 in reply to 256775.80
Date: 6/16/2014 12:45:15 AM
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did you just quote two star potential players in there?

thats glass half full thinking!


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256775.82 in reply to 256775.81
Date: 6/16/2014 1:13:39 AM
Kira Kira Koseki
ABBL
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Second Team:
Yubi Yubi
Star potential isn't too bad, especially if they're trainable as small forwards. Here's what John Reith looks like now (94-100% potential limit);

Jump Shot: prolific Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: tremendous Handling: sensational
Driving: prolific Passing: proficient
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: mediocre

And the guy I sold for 300k actually came to me as an 18yo Starter potential player, who I trained anyway because I didn't have a lot in the way of trainees at the time and didn't want to get involved in bidding wars revolving around the inevitable 'good draftees who get sold for big $$$' craze.

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256775.83 in reply to 256775.79
Date: 6/16/2014 2:01:23 AM
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No, group demonstration then i scouted then interviewed.
Generally i interview all 5 star rating players.
I've never really found any correlation between their box scores and potentials, however once all 5 star players have been interviewed ill go on their box score performance relative to their position. If that makes sense. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Out of my 6 interviewed players this season I've found 3 of them have 3 ball ratings one has 4 and the other 2 have 5 ball ratings.

I think the draft is worth it it does increase your chances of a good pick. I was able to make a quick million off my MVP SG back in season 23 i think. and 700k off my C last year. One of the main reasons I was able to win last year with such a cruddy arena was by selling those two off.

It has taken a toll on me this year though as i've based this years revenues on building an arena up to every other teams size.

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