Is there any type of spreadsheet similar to GD for HD recruiting wise?

I have heard of a few although never really used one. shouldn't be too hard to create one if you wanted though just need to come up with how you weight specific rating values and plug in some formula's. 

I'd say it's pretty hard to create a GD-like recruiting spreadsheet because the variables of potential, especially if you don't know whether something is high-high.

Posted by tkimble on 9/19/2011 3:25:00 PM (view original):
I'd say it's pretty hard to create a GD-like recruiting spreadsheet because the variables of potential, especially if you don't know whether something is high-high.

GD simply assumes all recruits are above average in potential in the GUESS tools. You can just assume low is +0, avg +10, high + 25, in your spreadsheet. 

I don't like recruiting via spreadsheet because it doesn't necessarily give a good enough feel for what you're doing.  In other words, a guy with better starting ratings but less high potentials might show up looking very similar to another recruit with higher potentials but lesser starting ratings.  If you need a guy to give you 8 or 10 minutes right away or a bunch as a sophomore that first guy is obviously a better fit; however, with unknown potentials or even unknown high-highs there's a very good chance that by the time they graduate player #2 will be the better one.  There's also the issue of specific needs.  Unless you adjust your spreadsheet every recruiting period to suit your current needs, it's always going to say the same guards or posts are the best.  Based on what you already have, it may be that you need a post with elite rebounding and defense but can live with virtually no LP game.  You can create separate PG and SG rating scales if you want, but that doesn't necessarily take care of fluctuations where if you have a great-shooting young PG and SF you might lean more towards a better defensive and inside-scoring SG, whereas if you have a real lack of PER on your current team you might want a pure shooter to bring some balance to your offensive gameplan.  In general I've never scouted so many potential recruits that I couldn't just individually assess them.  I guess if you were scouting half the country using a spreadsheet to get a list of the top 25 or 30 options wouldn't be a bad idea.

Agreed I think my feel for the game is better than what excel can tell me.

I do create a spreadsheet in excel each recruiting period. Depending on the team I have and their offense and defense, the weights change some. For example, with my team that runs fast break, speed has a higher weight. Then, I color High in Green, and Low in Red. It gives me an idea of how good players are at that moment in time. So I sort by my weighted total, then I look at the top players. If they have lots of red (low potential) I skip down to a player that is still pretty high on the list but has a lot of High Potential, as long as he has a WE above 30. I tend to have up to 50 people on my watch list, so it helps me figure out who to go after.  If I am having trouble deciding between 2 or 3 players at a position, I estimate how much they will improve for each rating, and then look at my weighted total.