i am so glad CS beta tested these recruit generation changes =) oh... wait...

That would explain the overall crappiness of the recruits in Tark this year.

just by the states..

iba looks a lot like what you're complaining about, and it was generated before the patch

knight looks like what you want, generated after the patch

just sayin

recruits seem to be pretty bad from what I've seen

yup tark recruits are brutal across the board.  low number of players, low potentials, just generally awful

I have noticed the same in DIII Tark the recruits are horrible. If I am not mistaken they are from before the fix though.

another example of seble tweaking something in the wrong direction. 

agreed 100%....my favorite part of HD is looking at recruits and the number AND quality of recruits is just plain sad. 

very odd. and yes, they're terrible, and i've got infinite money and literally no where to spend it.

billy, I am pretty sure tark was the first world to generate recruits after 2/3 - just go back 30 days from recruiting begins in tark, you get 2/4 ..... plus I seem to recall tark was the world we all agreed back then would be first.  Anyhow, I am staying out of the 'quality' issue, at times one just must move on, but .... in my experience, in my area of interest, it appears approx only 60-75% of the total number of d1 recruits are in the states that interest me.

To play devils advocate, one explanation I might come up with, is d2 & d1 are no longer 'sharing' recruits???????  Hence, the qty is different, although that may or may not have any effect of the quality, which in frankness appears to be neither a whole lot better or a whole lot worse than pre-2/3.

Oh good to see I wasn't the only one thinking this class was shallow

Posted by oldresorter on 3/5/2011 10:06:00 AM (view original):
billy, I am pretty sure tark was the first world to generate recruits after 2/3 - just go back 30 days from recruiting begins in tark, you get 2/4 ..... plus I seem to recall tark was the world we all agreed back then would be first.  Anyhow, I am staying out of the 'quality' issue, at times one just must move on, but .... in my experience, in my area of interest, it appears approx only 60-75% of the total number of d1 recruits are in the states that interest me.

To play devils advocate, one explanation I might come up with, is d2 & d1 are no longer 'sharing' recruits???????  Hence, the qty is different, although that may or may not have any effect of the quality, which in frankness appears to be neither a whole lot better or a whole lot worse than pre-2/3.

reasonable enough, but rupp recruiting just finished a couple days ago - the new recruits are thus new recruits. so i guess if the change was enough to make tark drop NY from around 250 recruits a year to 168 in one world, i would not expect to see 268 in the other world.

Posted by coach_billyg on 3/4/2011 10:55:00 PM (view original):

does the number of recruits in tark seem very low to anybody else? there used to be 300+ recruits at every position in d1, now from my d1 school, i see less than 300 at every position - and about 265 avg. seems very low.

then looking at FSS, some of this **** is crazy!
iowa has a mere 26 recruits - it always had like 40 or 50, i think. by comparison, rupp has 50.
IL has 74 recruits. i think it is always triple digits. by comparison, rupp has 129! this is BEFORE transfers in rupp, after in tark, so if anything, rupp should have more players!!
Ohio has 83 recruits. that is simply insane. rupp ohio has 125!
NY has a mere 168. i thought it was always at least 200+. rupp has... ONE HUNDRED MORE, 268!

the list goes on. this is ridiculous!!!
 

whoops, i meant from transfers, tark would have more... not rupp... but that is a very small effect

From the Developer chat: "No change to geographical distribution in this release."

So does that mean there are fewer players in total?