Quote: Originally Posted By zhawks on 10/09/2009
In season would be nice, I don't want the game to turn into a "I have to be around every 12 hours to do something in my 2 a day world" game, but I like the idea of 10 or so tournaments you can pay to watch. Give each school x money at the start of the year, they can either use on tournaments or bank for recruiting. That would add a bit of insentive too to carryover some money and strategy in whether or not to take a walk on or two.

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Quote: Originally Posted By sully712 on 10/08/2009
I never said get rid of distance altogether and I wouldnt want that. I was just surprised by how much more I spent with relatively even prestige and still lost. If this is how it is, I can live with it, I just never knew, thats all. I'm just trying to learn more about the game.

The impact distance has is directly correlated to having recruits placed in the "right" hometowns with which to begin. If the placement process is flawed, then it magnifies the distance issue imho.

I, too, would love to see some variability in terms of ratings. Teams don't rate the same player exactly the same. I also think FSS plays a huge role in recruiting and as is, it's primarily a local activity which means it has magnified the distance/placement issue since FSS was introduced.

I agree with you there Rails, you think it wouldn't be too hard to switch it up from how many d1 schools to where recruits actually come from. Didn't you have a (maybe more?) really bit post about this a while back? Did you ever take that to seble?

No, no. Rails didn't want it to see where recruits actually came from in real life, that would be a disaster. He wanted it reflected based on how many human-coached DI schools there were rather than total schools, and there is definitely merit to that.

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 10/09/2009
Agreed, I would love to see 2 seasons worth, very real life by the way, vs the current 1 season

Quote: Originally Posted By jskenner on 10/09/2009
Would the recruits from the next season 1) be fully formed (as they would be as college freshmen), or 2) would they develop during their HS "senior" years, some developing significantly more or less than others, just like in RL? I'd guess #1 would work much better, although less like RL. However, daalter is never one to let RL stand in the way of a better HD. ;)

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 10/09/2009if players were allocated to match schools in the region somehow, the missing puzzle piece would be that sim schools would need to start recruiting local, that way vacant human coached regions would have to at least spend 15-20k to sign local players, which is less than very competitive regions might be, but more than the current scheme where some places can get 4/5 star talent for 2-3

Quote: Originally Posted By sully712 on 10/09/2009I just wanted to thank everyone for their comments so far. This has been a good learning experience for me. I'm wondering if seble or anyone from WIS has read this thread and has any thoughts on it

Quote: Originally Posted By reinsel on 10/09/2009I just want to make sure that if anything is changed it doesn't make recruiting take ever more time, and it doesn't ruin D1 recruiting, turning it into the nationwide draft that D2 and D3 are where the A+ teams pick first and the B+ teams can't even make an effort

Quote: Originally Posted By aidiamo on 10/09/2009

One aspect of recruiting that I want to see fixed concerning distance is the function of a player preferring to play near his home or to play far away from home. Maybe this does factor into things now but it doesn't really seem that way. It seems that if a player says he wants to go far away from home (say he's in NY) then you would think that a school in CA would in essence have an easier time recruiting that kid than a NY school would. Sort of a reversal of norm here. This is pretty common in RL as well and happens all the time with guys. This would also make it much easier for a school like Hawaii to not be at such a big disadvantage in trying to recruit mainlanders.




It doesn't factor in. I give it at most the worth of 1/2 a home visit.

I don't know that I want it meaning much though. Think about coaching Hawaii... What if your two good recruits on the Island every 3 years want to play away?