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149547.6 in reply to 149547.1
Date: 6/30/2010 7:04:33 AM
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In addition, there will be a "scouting combine" at the allstar break, where every player in the upcoming draft class will show up to be measured. You can spend 10 points at any point after the allstar break to send a scout to the combine to learn the ages and heights for all 48 players in the upcoming draft class..


I dont understand that, does it means that I can spend 10 scouting points (50k?) so everyone will be scouted once?

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149547.7 in reply to 149547.6
Date: 6/30/2010 7:13:09 AM
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No, I believe it means that you can spend 10 coaching points and learn the height and age of all the players in the draft pool. But you won't get their balls and grades, etc.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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149547.8 in reply to 149547.7
Date: 6/30/2010 7:34:43 AM
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Oh thats clever. So while season runs, I can just scout once everyone, wait until allstar break, figure out height and age and then scout twice these which seems usefull.

And dilema is about how many points every week goes - so if I want to sout for a second time, I have to invest 10k (2 points) that week. The question is if will be possible to choose between scouting of two players first time or one player second time every week... because as Charles says is even now pointless to spend 20k if you give up on scouting sometimes and I would not like to pay that amount only because I want to scout for a second time someone).

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149547.9 in reply to 149547.8
Date: 6/30/2010 7:38:33 AM
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Wait a second, to collect 10 points for the allstar break I have to wait in scouting with the investment 10k for a 5 weeks. Well, that sucks:)

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149547.10 in reply to 149547.9
Date: 6/30/2010 8:21:48 AM
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It might have been said, but what will happen with the money that is being invested at the moment? Will it be turned into points?

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149547.11 in reply to 149547.3
Date: 6/30/2010 8:22:32 AM
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Charles, go back to school! :p

It will take me a while to make sense of what you have written... you are as cryptic as ever.
This is the part I like the most:
You can spend 10 points at any point after the...


Good to hear that we can finally know the height of the draftees :)

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149547.12 in reply to 149547.3
Date: 6/30/2010 8:28:16 AM
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Two questions:

1) Are we still going to continue to receive 14 points free, as under the old system?
2) My reading of the post was that it would require 1 + 2 points, or 3 points to double-scout a player, as opposed to 2 points under the old system? Is this correct? If so, are there plans to adjust the costs or number of points available, or are we just stuck with a 50% increase to the cost of double scouting as our tradeoff for not double scouting all those 1*/2* players?

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149547.13 in reply to 149547.12
Date: 6/30/2010 8:49:20 AM
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and another question:
if i spend 10 points after allstar, can i scout all players for 2 points, or need i spend 1+2 points?

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149547.14 in reply to 149547.12
Date: 6/30/2010 9:37:40 AM
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1) Are we still going to continue to receive 14 points free, as under the old system?


Unlike in the previous system, however, there will be no free scouting points given out because we are instead giving the baseline rankings.


It was sitting right there ready to be read.

Last edited by kLepTo at 6/30/2010 9:38:18 AM

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149547.15 in reply to 149547.12
Date: 6/30/2010 10:48:07 AM
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Two questions:

1) Are we still going to continue to receive 14 points free, as under the old system?
2) My reading of the post was that it would require 1 + 2 points, or 3 points to double-scout a player, as opposed to 2 points under the old system? Is this correct? If so, are there plans to adjust the costs or number of points available, or are we just stuck with a 50% increase to the cost of double scouting as our tradeoff for not double scouting all those 1*/2* players?


1) Unlike in the previous system, however, there will be no free scouting points given out because we are instead giving the baseline rankings.

2) Dont understand your question there :(

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149547.16 in reply to 149547.3
Date: 6/30/2010 1:33:18 PM
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Yeah should be good. Seems a little confusing to me though. The way they describe it seems to indicate to me that there is no point in spending any scouting points until after the allstar break because you can spend 10 points at the all star break and get all the players ages and heights. So no point wasting scouting points before then.


It depends upon what you're trying to optimize. Learning earlier whether the top picks in your initial rankings are talented lets you make better decisions about how much money to invest in scouting, because if you end up needing 28 scouting points, it's cheaper to buy 2 each week than to buy 3 some weeks and 1 some weeks.

So, the idea is that there is some tradeoff between spending points earlier and waiting until after the combine, but it's still a system that you can ignore until the day before the draft and get reasonable results.


But isn't this just important for the first season, to get a feeling about the initial guess of the system and their variance?

Or did, you make the draft projektions always on the same level, and let you finds gems even in the mediocore projected picks or in weak draft waterboys with very high projections because they look great in comparision to the other crappy players.

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