How to get on the Big Board Topic

So I've been at Purdue for a couple of seasons now and finally am having some success (anyone looking at this season will see a ridiculously high SOS so far but that was done for other reasons). My question is what it takes to get a player on the big board and then drafted. Does it just have to be a higher ranked prospect or a reflection of team success? Any and all thoughts would be appreciated
2/29/2016 5:15 PM
Just take a look at some of the last couple of players on the Big Board, it will tell you exactly what kind of ratings it takes to get a player on there. The players are judged based on their attributes alone, a teams success has no bearing on their draft stock. Compare the draft big board at the beginning of the season to the end of the season. If team success played any factor you would see wild swings in player's positionings. Instead you see underclassmen and JR's climbing up the list as they continue to improve, and SR's stagnate or drop, as many have already reached their max potential.

No offense but none of your players are even sniffing the list at this point. It's easy to say you need better players to have them get on the list, but for now focus on how you can accomplish this. As a low BCS school you need to load up on decent non-conference wins to raise your prestige up to the B range. Once your prestige is here, you can start to recruit the guys good enough to make the Big Board. Not saying you can't recruit a player who makes the BB with a C prestige, but these are usually special cases of guys with massive potential. There's nothing wrong with scheduling a bunch of SIMS in non-conference and going an easy 10-0, especially in your situation. But if you're going to do it, schedule them on the road. No reason to ever play a SIM team at home
2/29/2016 7:01 PM
Players need ratings of 90+ in their cores based on position to get onto the big board.

Where I slightly disagree with bro's comment is team success can determine if a players gets drafted this season or the next. A FF team is more likely to have kids that are "on the fence" leave where a 2nd round exit is likely to have kids stay another season before getting drafted.
2/29/2016 9:42 PM
I never thought any of my players were good enough to be drafted this year, its just one of my short term goals in game and wanted an idea of how to go about it
3/1/2016 2:10 PM
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