The "System"
They had to get 100 shots a game, 50 had to be 3-pointers.
Full court press the whole game with constant substitutions (new 5 every 35 seconds) if possible.
Try to force 32 turnovers. Get 1/3 of offensive rebounds off misses. Also, take 25 more shots than the other team.
Shoot within 12 seconds and try to get the ball back within 10 seconds.

LOL so yeah. That would be a fastbreak/full court press at uptempo. In HD, it would be very hard to achieve success.  You would be need to have great depth and guards with high rebounding ratings to pull it off.

You stole Jastremski!

Hasn't been confirmed yet.  Although i am now facing at least 1 certain walk-on.  I ran out of money for a couple battles to pull guys down, I set my sights way to high for a C school.  If I had been an A I might have had better success.  Still might face a season with 2 maybe 3 walkons.  That'll kill us.

Sent you a challenge for week 4 of exhibition next year. Will you accept the challenge and begin the Dubuque - Grinnell rivalry that will live for the ages?

Posted by bdpoor on 7/19/2011 12:20:00 AM (view original):
You stole Jastremski!

No, lost him, I ran out of money, will be having 5 walkons this season.  Wohoo!

Posted by bdpoor on 7/20/2011 1:09:00 PM (view original):
Sent you a challenge for week 4 of exhibition next year. Will you accept the challenge and begin the Dubuque - Grinnell rivalry that will live for the ages?

Your on. Sounds like a blockbuster.

So for those new guys like me reading this, the final bell has sounded, signings in the world will continue on for wednesday, but I am done.  What did I learn, well first a C team has very little chance making a pull down on a good player.  Second, with that many spots I should have filled them, not got buck fever and tried to make a contender in one season.  As it sits, I will be hard pressed to make wins happen with 7 effective players and 5 guys from the rec league. 

Third, unless your an A, avoid battles when you need to many players.  Its just too easy to pour money into someone, when you have to many needs.  I can't stress this enough, yes you live with players for 4 years, but the potential prestige hit isn't worth throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Posted by tbarket on 7/20/2011 4:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bdpoor on 7/20/2011 1:09:00 PM (view original):
Sent you a challenge for week 4 of exhibition next year. Will you accept the challenge and begin the Dubuque - Grinnell rivalry that will live for the ages?

Your on. Sounds like a blockbuster.

Accept!!!!

tbarket, a couple of thoughts after your recruiting period:

- People have a lot of different opinions about the timing of recruiting - whether to recruit early, late, or throughout. I don't think there's one right answer. But in your situation, I think the key was that you had to go after most of your spots late enough that the chance of a battle was reduced. The exact timing will depend on the quality of the recruit. If you're going after a low-ratings, high-upside player, you might be able to jump on him early without too much risk of a battle. But if you're going after pulldowns, or the highest-rated guys on your D3 board, I think you'd be better off waiting a day (or 2 or 3) and seeing which of them are still undecided. There's a lot of quality still around after signings start, esp at D3. And those late guys will generally come cheaper too. Patience makes a big difference.

- As soon as you're in a battle, you've got to decide quickly if you're going to stay in or bail. If there are any other recruits available who are almost as good, BAIL QUICKLY. Don't hang on just because he was your guy first, or because you think you need him more than the other coach does. Again, at D3, there are a lot of recruits of about the same quality. In my last 10 D3 seasons in Naismith, I think I got into 3 battles total - and I had an A or A+ prestige 7 out of those 10 seasons. Battles are WAY over-used at D3.

tbarket, I notice that you did fill out all 6 freshman scholarships and filled 8 out of 10 overall.  You must have had a few extra dollars at the end or offered a bunch of naked scholarships and got a few to bite.   Let us know what happened at the end...now that it's over.

Posted by bdpoor on 7/20/2011 10:27:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tbarket on 7/20/2011 4:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bdpoor on 7/20/2011 1:09:00 PM (view original):
Sent you a challenge for week 4 of exhibition next year. Will you accept the challenge and begin the Dubuque - Grinnell rivalry that will live for the ages?

Your on. Sounds like a blockbuster.

Accept!!!!

I am looking at the challenges menu and cannot see your challenge to me, were do I find it?

Posted by rogelio on 7/21/2011 10:03:00 AM (view original):
tbarket, I notice that you did fill out all 6 freshman scholarships and filled 8 out of 10 overall.  You must have had a few extra dollars at the end or offered a bunch of naked scholarships and got a few to bite.   Let us know what happened at the end...now that it's over.

Was just going to do so.  So at that point I had $3 left, and 5 open spots, the last 3 guys I had a shot at all went to D3 schools with A to A- prestige.  Then I get an email from my assistant coach, who says something along the lines of 'i know your busy with other things so I signed some additional players for you, hope their ok' or something like that.

So the AI assistant signed the last 3 with $0 dollars and I got stuck with 2 walk ons.  While I am grateful for this, is it a bug, could I have just shot the load on 4 really good players and then let the AI fill out the rest of the squad?  Will it allow only 2 walkons regardless of what I do with my money?  I know I have read that the assistant doing the recruiting is not the way to go and he will not try to save money for next season, but I can see this as a potential recruiting  'cheat'.

What I mean by cheat is that this could be a back door to fill in large needs (6 plus), by grabbing a few really good ones and letting the AI fill in the rest for no money.  I think the WiS guys should try to close this loophole.  I was fully expecting to play with a 7 man rotation this season, but now I don't have too.