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164171.9 in reply to 164171.8
Date: 11/17/2010 12:23:30 PM
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It also depends on your league postition and the average scouting expenses in your league, but I prefer to think that usually Im able to get 1 such player like that at most. See a past drafts in your league and you can figure out how many MVPs which could be for something, are really in there. Im used to see that if I have high expectations, I get usually the same like when I invest the "reasonable" volume of money.

I spend in 12 weeks like 180k for 30 points (10k-20k investments). Which is by 300k less than you do. While during such investment I will miss just potential of some 18y/height players, while if I would invest more, there is still no insurance in that other team will not pick my best scouted player. Then it really hurts. For that 300k (which I usually miss in bidwar) I can buy a player which will win some games and pay for himself, while the best way for a payback in draft is to have a lucky guess.

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164171.10 in reply to 164171.6
Date: 11/17/2010 4:04:38 PM
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If you use Scouting combine, then calculate if there is at least ten 18 years old players in that group (rank 30-48). Then you should use Group demonstration to save some points. If there is less than 10, then it is cheaper to scout 18 years old players one by one. If you are looking only short players, then I think there will be less than 10 players so you will not use Group demonstration.

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164171.11 in reply to 164171.10
Date: 11/17/2010 7:19:43 PM
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As far as I can remember, if you use Scouting Combine, you can find the height and the age of all the draftees.
I wish if Scouting Combine could also reveal the position of the players...(even if it requires 20 points). It's very sad to see a player with around 185 cm turning out to be a center...:P

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164171.12 in reply to 164171.11
Date: 11/18/2010 3:45:08 AM
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That would not be sad for me, that would be promising! Such a player guarantees well-developed big men skills and his little height makes him perfect for a fast guard training. If trained properly, in the end you end up getting a great, worthy balanced player.

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164171.13 in reply to 164171.12
Date: 11/18/2010 3:57:42 AM
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I agree. In particular when said player has OD, Passing and perhaps even Handling already average or respectable.

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164171.15 in reply to 164171.13
Date: 12/16/2010 11:43:29 AM
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i am a bit confused by the draft strategies and have a question.
I will have 48 points and train small fwds. I am not sure the heights matter greatly for them, they don't probably need to be over 1.98. What strategy would you reccomend?

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164171.16 in reply to 164171.15
Date: 12/16/2010 11:52:17 AM
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I don't know if you are looking only for 18yo or also 19yo, but I'd suggest Scouting combine anyway.

Height matters a bit also here. I think you don't want to get the "extremes" because the training slows so much down for unnatural skills for a specific heighth.

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164171.17 in reply to 164171.1
Date: 12/17/2010 10:21:18 PM
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Hey! I got a brilliant idea...How bout you dont wast 150k on scouting, and just wait till everyone drafts, and you can get a player for 100k that would prob be better then the one you'll draft!!!! If you agree gimme a BALL.

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164171.18 in reply to 164171.17
Date: 12/18/2010 3:59:46 AM
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Hey! I got a brilliant idea...How bout you dont wast 150k on scouting, and just wait till everyone drafts, and you can get a player for 100k that would prob be better then the one you'll draft!!!! If you agree gimme a BALL.


Well I expect at least a player with 4.5k salary or more with superstar potential or more. I'm sure I can't get such player for 100k, and my nationality to boot.

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164171.19 in reply to 164171.18
Date: 12/20/2010 12:39:29 PM
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Hi guys,

I was just wondering, with this system that allows us to determine the exact ages and heights of the players in the draft, what's to stop 2 guys in the same division sharing the scouting load? I mean, i know the player numbers are random, but the physical stats will be the same.

Seems like there is an easy way to bend the rules somewhat here.

Cal

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