I read a post awhile back that outlined an approach for evaluating a recruit based on their core numbers. It added their numbers together excluding WE, STAMINA, DURABILITY and there was a threshold # to target. Does anyone know have the link to this thread?

Thanks!

the only thing I can think of is aejones saying to get 120 ath/spd combined at D3 and D2 get a combined ath/spd of 140 in his guards

otherwise whoever said that was bad you should not care 1 bit about overall rating when recruiting you have to look at what they can do generally look for guys with 2 of 4 abilities from offense/defense/rebounding/guard skills if not 3 of those 4 categories

because using your example

50 ath 20 spd 99 reb 50 def 70 sb 70 lp 1 per 1 bh 1 pas is 362

and 40 ath 40 spd 80 reb 40 def 80 sb 50 lp 25 per 25 bh 25 pas is 405 overall

guy 1 is better rebounder/defender/scoring in a big man that 25 bh/pas is nothing to the decrease in ath/reb/def/lp

also here is another

30 ath 90 spd 1 reb 50 def 1 sb 1 lp 99 per 70 bh 70 pas is 412

60 ath 60 spd 25 reb 50 def 25 sb 30 lp 80 per 60 bh 60 pas is 450 overall

player 1 is elite scorer, better PG, and in the press a better defender(as well in my opinion being a better defender in man too)

however both those situations the weaker player has the higher overall

Don't look at overall whatsoever when recruiting please please please the only thing overall does is give you an estimate in if you can pull them down ~480 D3 usually max and 530 usually max D2 both high prestige

He also assigned values to the recruits potential... something like +5 for Average, +10 for High and +20 for High-High. His point was he wouldn't touch a recruit if those core numbers + potential numbers didn't add up to a certain number (475 comes to mind).

red is 0-7 black is 8-20 blue is 21-28 and blue+ is 28+

the only thing he says about overall is recruiting up to 475 overall which is just for pull downs and not some number you need to achieve as again overall means nothing really

the only thing i've ever seen mentioning discounting WE,Stamina and Durability was for the useless rankings each team gets after signing - ie. top recruiting classes.