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The offseason processing day is arriving soon, on Monday, October 4 (or perhaps on Tuesday). That means that on Monday-ish....you guessed it....the draft! Every season, when a new group of Canadian players is drafted, the top draftees are identified and added to scouting lists, which are used by the National Teams for various things. These things include:
- providing information about the best players that exist in each age group (always important when selecting players to national teams)
- reaching out to the owners of Canadian prospects, to offer advice / guidance (if desired)
- saving prospects from retirement (last login dates are included on the 18 year old lists, to keep track of which young players are in danger every week)

As always, help is needed to scout the draft, and it would be great if we could get all of the scouting done as quickly as possible (ideally, within a couple days of the draft ending). I'd like to volunteer to take down all the player skill information into a tracking spreadsheet. I'm also willing to organize the general scouting / tracking for this year's draft class.

Every Canadian division needs to be scouted, all the way from Naismith down to the division IV leagues. For format, I think it works best to have draft classes posted in this thread; the key information is the player ID (it really helps if you post the link; [player=xxxx], where the xxxx is the ID number). Putting the player name next to the ID is also helpful, and any other information is optional.

I would like to see players listed that meet the following criteria:
- 18 years old
- $3500+ salary (approximately; can be lower for MVP+ potential)
- at least star potential
- not retired
- does not belong to a bot team

These guidelines are the same as ones that we have used in the past; not every player that meets these criteria will be a prospect worth tracking, but I'd like to take a look at everyone that does, and track anyone that I think has some chance of playing for Canada one day (if trained very well, of course).

Volunteers can request the leagues that they would like to scout, although I can also assign leagues to volunteers that don't have a preference. I recommend only volunteering for 4 leagues maximum to start; as the scouting goes along, if there are leagues yet to be claimed, anyone who wants to can jump in and take those as well (it works to just post that you will be doing it right before you do it, and then edit that post with the scouting information as you go).

Let's hope for a great draft class for Canada, and feel free to ask if you have any questions about our post-draft scouting efforts this season.

*********Also, be sure to wait until the new season 14 divisions have been created, before starting to scout. This is to prevent teams from being missed due to promotion and relegation. If you're unsure, just wait to hear the go ahead******

Last edited by The Mogul at 10/3/2010 9:08:02 PM

Here is one way to do scouting; this is AstonMidhurst's method, with a couple tweaks:

1. In the Season 13 draft scouting thread, begin a post where you will record scouting information for the divisions you are doing, and add in the information as you go.

2. Open a new window, and go the the page for the division you're working on. Look at the conference page (either Big 8 or Great 8) and check which teams are bots. If a team is bot you don't need to look at it (you can tell by seeing the last login date, since bot teams will have a blank entry).

3. If a team is not bot, open their team page in a new window (saves time by not having to go back through old pages).

4. From the team page, go to that team's roster.

5. In the roster page, sort the players by age... they are automatically sorted by youngest to oldest (meaning the players we are looking for will be at the top of the page).

6. Record the players that fit the requirements for tracking... all newly drafted players will have a DMI of 0. If there is an 18-year old that doesn't have a DMI of 0, it means that the age update has yet to take place, and he's actually supposed to be 19-years old.

7. Repeat the process above for each of the teams in the conference.

8. Repeat the process above for the other conference.

9. Repeat the process above for the other divisions.

Last edited by The Mogul at 9/30/2010 5:56:15 PM

List of assignments will be recorded and updated here:

Naismith: Rip
II.1 - II.4: Rip (complete)
III.1 - III.4: Beanerz (complete)
III.5 - III.8: Eminence Front (complete)
III.9 - III.12: Griffin (complete)
III.13 - III.16: damian13ster (complete)
IV.1 - IV.4: zmtomako (complete)
IV.5 - IV.8: drakonius (complete)
IV.9 - IV.12: stajan (complete)
IV.13 - IV.64: The Mogul (complete)

Last edited by The Mogul at 10/8/2010 12:29:08 AM

I will do parts of Div III. Just let me know which ones, I could do them all, but it depends on how many volunteers you get.

Last edited by Mod-beanerz at 9/30/2010 6:14:35 PM

I could take some of D.III as well.

I'll take some D.III too

I can aslo take about 4-5 divisions

you can assign me to a few random leagues

I can also help if you want, no pref on league

After update:

IV.1
Philippe Verville (16415025) ------------ $ 5 342 -- 6'0" / 183 cm --- star
Mark Beard (16415012) ------------------ $ 3 705 -- 6'9" / 206 cm --- hall of famer
Luc Trudeau (16415037) ----------------- $ 4 004 -- 6'3" / 190 cm --- star
Howard Byrne (16415004) --------------- $ 3 640 -- 6'3" / 190 cm --- superstar
Leyton Speakman (16415026) --------- $ 5 010 -- 6'11" / 211 cm -- perennial allstar

IV.2
- see inactive team list

IV.3
Steve Clark (16415591) ------------------- $ 6 631 -- 6'7" / 201 cm --- allstar

IV.4
- see inactive team list

On inactive teams:
Rob Hart (16415023) ----------------------- $ 6 256 -- 6'11" / 211 cm -- perennial allstar
(Last Seen: 8/26/2010 - IV.1)
Daniel Labbé (16414868) ------------------ $ 5 468 -- 6'4" / 193 cm --- perennial allstar
(Last Seen: 9/4/2010 - IV.2)
Israel Rosenblum (16415616) ----------- $ 5 293 -- 6'3" / 190 cm --- star
(Last Seen: 9/8/2010 - IV.3)
Pierre-Olivier Touchette (16416442) -- $ 5 479 -- 6'3" / 190 cm --- allstar
(Last Seen: 9/8/2010 - IV.4)
Lance Bowie (16415009) ------------------ $ 3 507 -- 6'2" / 188 cm --- allstar
(Last Seen: 9/17/2010 - IV.1)
Marc Boudreault (16414876) ------------- $ 4 076 -- 6'6" / 198 cm --- MVP
(Last Seen: 9/19/2010 - IV.2)
Alec Bedford (16414870) ------------------ $ 3 542 -- 6'4" / 193 cm --- perennial allstar
(Last Seen: 9/25/2010 - IV.2)

Last edited by zmtomako at 10/6/2010 5:08:56 PM