I came across something that I'd never really thought about before, so I wanted to ask if anyone had seen this happen.  This was D3 recruiting, but it's not really a D3-specific question.

The cycle before signings started I noticed a local player considering only a D3 sim.  I decided I wanted to take him from the sim, which was no trouble at all (he had a weak WOTS message).  At the 4pm cycle, he had dropped the sim and was considering only my school after 3 HVs+start+scholly.  At that point, I decided to try to remove the promised start before he signed.

So really my question is at that point, what would happen if I just did inform of RS and nothing else?  I expect he would probably drop me from his list, as 3 HVs+start might be borderline enough to cancel out the RS..assume for the question that it's NOT enough and he would drop me.  But what about the sim?  Would he go back to considering the sim and not me?  Is it possible for another team to show BACK up on the list solely because of my actions?  I'm thinking it is, but I've just never seen it before.


For the curious among you, I did inform of RS to remove the start, then inform of non-RS+15min+1 HV, and he signed with no problem at 7pm.

From season 51 to 62 your team didnt make it under the elite eight! Are your players on steroids?

i think he'd likely end up back on the Sim's list. I have seen it before.

Posted by wronoj on 10/23/2012 9:41:00 AM (view original):
i think he'd likely end up back on the Sim's list. I have seen it before.

Thanks I figured someone had seen this happen at some point.  Saves me the trouble of wasting money testing it to satisfy my curiosity.

Posted by deery6 on 10/23/2012 7:30:00 AM (view original):
From season 51 to 62 your team didnt make it under the elite eight! Are your players on steroids?

Some of those teams, probably.  But they apparently forgot to pass them along to this year's team.

uhg, another person trying to steal my elite 8 record at SIUE. do me a favor, and try to lose in the s16 this year, ok? :)

eh look at the team, we'll be lucky to even make the S16.  I've recruited pretty poorly imo the last 3-4 seasons, so your 14 is probably safe from Ren Poly.

But I do have another team sitting on 8 straight E8s with no sign of slowing down.  So watch out :)

it would be interesting to run a team with the goal of setting a record like that. when you play for titles and titles alone, you are generally going to have up and down years programmed in - because the upside on an up year vastly outweighs the downside on a down year, in terms of chance of winning a title. you can have more in 1 up year than 5 normal years put together. but to try to be consistently great at any cost, thats an interesting way to play, i think that could be a lot of fun. im sure most people dont really play that way... but seems like an interesting idea to me.