Hey guys, how do I calculate how much recruiting money another team has to play with? Can someone direct me to a previous thread or even a formula of some sort?

I never really paid much attention to it, but I want to learn a little more on how I can guesstimate what a potential rival has available.

Definitely appreciate any help. Thanks!

You can check his open scholarships to get a base line (the amounts per scholarship in each division are laid out in the FAQ and player guide). If you wanted to go further you could check how many games his conference members played in the post season tournament and the reward for those games (again in the FAQ and player guide) and divide that by the number of conference members (at least I'm pretty sure that's how that part works).

The part you'll never be able to know is how much he potentially rolled over from the season before (unless it's that coaches first season at that school in which case he would have none). As well as how much or whether at all he spent on future stars.

I find open scholarships to be the most helpful, if a team has a lot of open scholarships for that season I assume the coach has a more spread out approach and may be willing to let a recruit go without much of a fight because he will have other options. Coaches going for less players in a cycle may be more zeroed in and committed to getting that one recruit and spending whatever they can to get him. At least that's how I feel but there isn't an exact science to how other coaches are going to recruit.

Hope this helped a little at least.

Posted by mikvitu on 2/12/2014 2:28:00 AM (view original):

You can check his open scholarships to get a base line (the amounts per scholarship in each division are laid out in the FAQ and player guide). If you wanted to go further you could check how many games his conference members played in the post season tournament and the reward for those games (again in the FAQ and player guide) and divide that by the number of conference members (at least I'm pretty sure that's how that part works).

The part you'll never be able to know is how much he potentially rolled over from the season before (unless it's that coaches first season at that school in which case he would have none). As well as how much or whether at all he spent on future stars.

I find open scholarships to be the most helpful, if a team has a lot of open scholarships for that season I assume the coach has a more spread out approach and may be willing to let a recruit go without much of a fight because he will have other options. Coaches going for less players in a cycle may be more zeroed in and committed to getting that one recruit and spending whatever they can to get him. At least that's how I feel but there isn't an exact science to how other coaches are going to recruit.

Hope this helped a little at least.

That just about covers it as far as calculating the recruiting dollars goes.

don't forget (especially with new to the school coaches) to look at the team's NEWS tab to see if they cut anyone - not all those openings always have $$ behind them...

and you want to check that they have some true sophomores - if not, they COULD have a double dose of postseason money if they had no open slots last cycle.  Of course, it could also be that they had only walkons after whiffing in recruiting - in which case no carryover at all.  No carryover if ANY walkons last cycle. (Unless they had a walkon because a nonoqualifier signed but did not enroll - a DI issue)

and during recruiting check WOTS on his players (if you've FSS'd the applicable states) to get a sense of how much into each kid he has.  Also helps to know if he appeared on any other kids in recruiting, esp. early on, but is no longer being considered by those kids.

Posted by metsmax on 2/12/2014 7:51:00 AM (view original):
and you want to check that they have some true sophomores - if not, they COULD have a double dose of postseason money if they had no open slots last cycle.  Of course, it could also be that they had only walkons after whiffing in recruiting - in which case no carryover at all.  No carryover if ANY walkons last cycle. (Unless they had a walkon because a nonoqualifier signed but did not enroll - a DI issue)

That last bit about about nonqualifiers is also a D2 issue Mets, not only D1.

its true you can't know how much a player rolled over, if he took no walkons. but you can tell if he had walkons or not, which can often be quite valuable. i guess the exception is the ineligible player who went juco, but recruiting is just starting, that guy will generally be considering that school. thats a decently rare explanation for walkons, as well.