Working the numbers without ADV Scouting? Topic

That's not a contradiction.
4/21/2011 10:04 AM
Sure it is.  
4/21/2011 10:15 AM
Posted by jtrinsey on 4/20/2011 4:56:00 PM (view original):

I think sooner or later something has to be done about advanced scouting. I think that within another year so that more than 50% of players will be at 0 advanced. Kind of stupid to have something in the game that really doesn't do a whole lot.

I wish advanced scouting also somehow gave you information on a player's decline. Some players start declining at 30 while others can barely see any kind of drop until they hit 35. Makeup gives a little clue, but not much. This would make advanced scouting a bit more useful, even if it was some sort of year-end report you got in your inbox.

I actually think that's a pretty cool idea.
4/21/2011 11:05 AM
you can see how much players improve/decline every year (by overall points). there's a report for that
4/21/2011 11:11 AM
I think what he's asking for is a report saying "This is where he'll be at 33.  This is where he'll be at 35 and this is where he'll be at 37."   Sort of a reverse of what we see now. 
4/21/2011 11:24 AM
i know
4/21/2011 11:32 AM
i guess my point was since improvement can be estimated via the 0 advanced scouting method on a players way up, why not just use the same formula on the way down?
4/21/2011 11:33 AM
Contracts.   By the time you see a pattern of decline, the player may still have 2-3 seasons left on his 5 year deal.   

But I know what you're saying.  I can look at a 34 y/o and know that giving him a 5 year deal is just stupid.   I assume everyone can't.
4/21/2011 11:37 AM
sometimes desperation causes people to act stupidly if the bad stuff is far away (allegedly)
4/21/2011 11:39 AM
I think, sometimes, people act stupidly because they're stupid.   Or because they know they don't have to deal with the far away bad stuff.
4/21/2011 11:48 AM
stupid people almost always act stupidly, which is why they are considered stupid in the first place.
 
4/21/2011 11:54 AM
When did this turn into a thread about DIAH?
4/21/2011 11:59 AM
when we started talking aboot stupid people?
4/21/2011 12:00 PM
That's what I thought.  Thanks.
4/21/2011 12:02 PM
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4/21/2011 12:03 PM
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