Posted by hughesjr on 1/5/2012 10:53:00 AM (view original):
Posted by gvsujulius on 1/4/2012 11:31:00 AM (view original):
But if I am paying to evaluate a player I am not going to report on the same items over and over. Maybe you could select what you wanted to evaluate the player on.
So, do you think when a coach goes to see a player in a high school game, he knows everything about that player when he makes it back to campus.
Can he focus on 6 traits this visit and 6 next visit?
We get WAY to much information now on players. Our grades are perfect and our potential is almost perfect just from doing FSS.
Do you think John Calipari knows exactly how Marquis Teague's jumpshot and Defense and Rebounding ability is going to turn out against college competition just based on a couple of coaching visits. I think we get way to specific an amount of information right now.
this is another fallacy of trying to make HD into rl. The predictive nature of how a player is going to turn out is a great tool for this simulated game. because there is such a wide range in what average can be and where high or high-high are, there is still an ocean of information on a recruit that should satisfy those that want to be surprised (when the color coding came out, how many coaches posted in the forums and in the cc's that a player went from black to red after one practice? those coaches obviously didn't know they were on the lower end of the average spectrum...similarly, i have a big man who i recruited with a high-high 32 lp who will be reaching 99 when he's done. no evals or fss could have told me that but i took a chance and its awesome!).
i did not intend to just summarily dismiss your example, so i'll briefly address it: imagine an asst coach goes to watch a pg play multiple times and each time he tells you, as the head coach, that the player's a terrible rebounder and there's not much room for improvement. if you didn't fire the asst, its likely because either (1) you knocked his skull in for being a moron; (2) he's your son in law and you know he needs the job; or (3) you're on your way out so you don't really give a $h!t about the program anyways.