Hey everyone. I just had a quick question since I am very new to this whole game. What would be considered far or close to home (example 400 miles or less is close)?

If he wants to get away, you start to gain an advantage outside of 200 miles and the further you are, the more of an advantage it becomes up to around 500 miles and anything over that is the same. I think close is the inverse.

thanks that cleared things up

Also, say some is within 20 miles (for example) of your school and he wants to be far from home, does that make a big impact in recruiting him? And the opposite too.

Quote: Originally Posted By rcktchamp on 1/18/2010Also, say some is within 20 miles (for example) of your school and he wants to be far from home, does that make a big impact in recruiting him? And the opposite too

Not that I've noticed. I haven't had a situation where either the close to to home or far away preference has had any impact on recruiting. It should tho, it could add another level of recruiting, but it wasn't implemented correctly.

So say my team in New York and another team with everything the same except the other school is in California were going after a player that lives in New York. The player wants to be far from home. We both do all of the recruiting exactly the same. Will the school in California have any advantage at all?

If you do the same recruiting effort, the Cali team might have a small advantage. But the fact is the costs to make the same effort being 3000 miles away as opposed to <100 is an enormous difference. For example it would cost the Cali team 1400+ to do a HV and 2400+ to do a CV while it would cost your NY team less than 350 to do a HV and less than 850 for a CV. So for the cost of the Cali team to do 1 HV and 1 CV you could do 12 HVs. So the slight advantage the Cali team may get from the recruit wanting to get away will be squashed by the additional recruiting effort you can do for the same amount of money.

I feel if they really wanted those things to mean something, in this example the Cali school should begin with an advantage, say something like getting credit as if they had done 3 extra CVs and guaranteed a start. This way will ensure that in order to keep this recruit close to home a local team will have to do a ton of recruiting.

ok that does make sense. Also, I know it does differ for everyone, but how much on average would you say you spend on each player? I have a feeling i spent to much on the future scouting

1k to 90k, it all depends.

Like with many things in this game, it really depends. In D3, since your new to the game and at D3 you don't get much money to recruit you really want to avoid battles unless it's an easy battle to win, or you have multiple open scholarships but only 1 or 2 need positions. An example of my second situation is you have 4 open scholarships but you have a starter and backup for 3 of the 5 positions and the other two you have your starters so you only need backups for 2 positions. In that situation you would probably want to aim high and go all out after 2 studs.

But on average I probably spend btwn 1500-2k on a D3 recruit.

rck, if you need help with recruiting send me a sitemail. I would be glad to answer your questions and tell you how to get the best players.

thanks I'll do that right now!

Sorry about all the questions, but i have one more. Now after really looking through all of the recruits in DIII, I have narrowed the list down to four PGs. I am running a triangle offense and have read through the forums about what to look for in players while running a triangle offense.

Recruit links do not work.

didn't think so. It is different than HBD. How do i attach the links, sorry?