If this is a dumb question, forgive me.... How do people cheat on this game?

Posted by flemingtime on 4/10/2011 6:07:00 PM (view original):
If this is a dumb question, forgive me.... How do people cheat on this game?

People will take a second team in the same world (usually right after a free season promotion...) that has a large incoming recruiting class (and, thus, a large recruiting budget). Then they'll use that team to purchase as many Future Stars states as the money will allow, and use that information to target high-potential recruits for their main team, which now has the advantage of still having it's full budget available to battle with other coaches and a broader number of scouted states than any team in that division should rightfully have (because no effort is ever made to recruit players to the second team). You can always tell when it's been done, because the "extra" team will bring in an entire class of walk-ons...I remember one year in Naismith, we had a conference with 3 teams rated in the lower 300s because they all consisted of like two scholarship players and 10 walkons. Felt sorry for the two humans in the league that had to endure their RPI's getting torpedoed as the result. 

That's probably the most common method I know of.

You used to also see cases where groups of people in the same league would coordinate among themselves who was buying FSS for which states, that way no two schools spent money on the same state. Then, of course, everyone in said pool shared the scouting information they had to try and lift the league as a whole. Haven't heard any rumblings on that one for a while...don't know if that means it isn't happening or if it just got driven off boards and underground to sitemail instead. 

Rednu, I have a strong suspicion that somebody is using Heartland in Naismith for this purpose.  We have had, every season since I joined (7 straight now) one new coach that shows up and doesn't participate in any way, then vanishes as mysteriously as they arrived.  And, I am just now realizing, that it seems like it is with a different team each time.  I am starting to wonder if this is in fact the same person using a different account each time and fronting in our conference. 

wow, thats wild that people do that.  But that brings up another question.  How do I do the FSS? Do i do it at the begining of the the recruiting period?  And what sort of information do i get?

thank you

Posted by flemingtime on 4/10/2011 8:08:00 PM (view original):
wow, thats wild that people do that.  But that brings up another question.  How do I do the FSS? Do i do it at the begining of the the recruiting period?  And what sort of information do i get?

thank you

You can do it at anytime  You purchase it by states. It tells you every player (DI-DIII) in that state as well as their potential for improvement in each category.
The fee is dependent on the  # of recruits...the bigger states are more expensive but you see more players.

Don't get carried away, though,  Every dollar you spend comes from your recruiting budget.   At DIII, if I have 3 available openings, I won't scout more than 5 states...and usually only one of them is an expensive one.

You access it from your recruiting tab

>>D3-Bethany  .395-  won in season #9

Hey, now, that's me you're talking about :)

I took over that team a season ago after it lost 5 seniors.  My best returning players were a senior SF and a soph PG.  I inherited 4 PFs who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time and a C with an ATH rating of 6 (yes, 6).    I cut 4 players right away and brought in a decent recruiting class, but it's not easy playing  low-IQ freshmen when the team is geared for FCP/FB.

I expect the program to rise from the ashes in a couple more seasons, but not until I get better BH and SPD on the roster.  With the way the update messed with recruiting, it's not going to be as easy as I thought.

A common way some cheat is related to that, but many would claim its not cheating. Simply have two teams in the same world. A lot of guys do this even in d1 and some people don't have a problem. They get a good team in d1, and then use the cash from it to fund the d2 program they acquire (d3 is a one season wonder). Then after some (extra funded) success in d2, they move up to a different area of the country and claim theres no problem. Even if you have a UNC/Duke on the Atlantic Coast, and an Eastern West Oregon Agricultural on the Pacific, you can't tell me these guys don't save some cash, or make a mental note of the 1 star recruit with 10 high high potentials that any A school can easily swoop in on from halfway across the country.

I just wish that those that did use schools solely as FSS money sources would at least have the common courtesy to recruit for those teams as well.