Here is one, if I recruit and ineligible and use the FSS then the guy goes JUCO, why wouldnt I still have the scouting report on the guy the following season? Even if its outdated due to growth (Im not sure they improve during the one season) I should still have my prior report.
7/3/2012 8:24 AM
His JUCO college was probably in a different state than you previously scouted and due to his growth, the potentials may have changed slightly. So you have to purchase his *new* state to see his potentials. 
7/3/2012 9:15 AM
I think the answer is much simpler than yoji's - FSS is simply wiped clean at the start of each season (after recruiting ends).

It'd get kind of tricky holding onto all of that data - you'd basically have to create a new page that lists all players that you have FSS for since the only real filter they have on that currently is to filter by scouted states, not scouted players.  Plus they'd have to account for things like "I recruited this player, he went to a different school then transfered, so I should have his FSS now".  Which means, from a data end, you'd have to link FSS to specific players rather than the states they are located in (as I'm guessing it is done now on the WIS backend).

It'd basically have to track your FSS over a few seasons rather than just last season, so it'd get complicated and data-heavy... two things WIS tends to shy away from in updates, especially the latter.
7/3/2012 9:23 AM
That actually makes sense. Thanks guys.
7/3/2012 11:29 AM
It would be a bit complicated - but it wouldn't really require a different page. However I am sure the way their tables are set up to store the data in the background is each team by each state and as ryrun says it's wiped clear each year. It would be fairly easy to have each team by state by year (only need to go 5 years back really) and cross reference a recruits 'recruit year' and cross reference the state and year with team to see if you have access to said recruits FSS.

Easy idea - until you factor in - JuCo's change states, players could technically be in the recruiting pool more than two times (in which case you need more fields for more data...)

basically your only way to guarantee this works 100% (with my understanding of the game) is to key each recruit to each school and whether or not they had access to their FSS, which is data heavy. Would be interesting to be able to see a players potential during his career if you FSS'd him though...

Agree seems like something that would be great to have and makes a lot of sense mmt but I'd assume it would take a lot of work.
7/3/2012 4:21 PM

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