Posted by Benis on 1/19/2017 1:11:00 AM (view original):
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Posted by skinzfan36 on 1/18/2017 5:30:00 PM (view original):
when there are 2 A/A+ teams putting max effort on a recruit I don't get how a C/C+ can hang with them...I would hope his odds were <5%
One C+ was in signing range, the other wasn't. As I've said before, 2 full grade levels is about where equal effort and promises falls out of signing range. Some C+ teams are better than others, some will match preferences a little better, some have more APs to sink, those small differences likely account for how one got in signing range, and the other didn't. There's a threshold to reach, and if you get there, you'll be listed as high. It doesn't mean you have a good chance, but you have a chance.
Just so I understand--are you saying there is a threshold that can be reached wherein, despite another teams effort you cannot be bumped lower than high? So if a team hits this threshold, it doesn't matter if I am still pumping in double the AP (assuming we both went all in and have good preferences etc...) once they have hit the threshold they will be listed at high until the recruit signs? As in they will always have a chance after that threshold regardless of my efforts? I.E. they cant be bumped off of a minimum rank of high no matter what? If this is the case it I was entirely unaware and frankly think that is a giant problem.
There's a threshold, yes, but it's not a static, absolute number. It's relative to the effort credit the leader has. If the leader has gone all in, there's nothing more he can do to knock anyone out.
Besides pump 80 AP per cycle. This could allow them to increase their lead and knock another team down to moderate.
Well ok, I did account for APs already 3 posts up, but yes benis, if a high prestige team cares to "pump 80 AP per cycle" into a guy in order to move a C+ rival from 10% to 0%, that method is available, if not advisable. Mully maybe could have moved Loyola off with max AP, if Loyola couldn't or didn't match it (maybe not, because mully can't control what Loyola has available). He likely could have found better uses for a lot of those attention points.
Regardless, the final tally is still part of that threshold. So as it pertains to the top issue in this post, not being able to get how a C+ team could "hang" with a team two levels above, the correct answer is because the C+ team managed to meet the minimum threshold of effort credit relative to what the effort credit leader achieved.