Last 4 seasons, an EE, a FF and a NC and I haven't seen anything better than a 40th rated player in all of the states scouted nearby in the whole time (#60 was the second best in that time). Meanwhile I've seen a slew of D and C schools out of the region listed on top 10's in the same area. Regionalize them. 75% regional (schools within say 500 miles) with weight on past success and 25 randomized nationally weighted on success. Seems stupid to have a blue chipper in Missouri with Mississippi Valley State as their childhood fav. It it's being used to bring some functional reality to recruiting, do it right. (I know it's been talked about, but still.)

LOL, just for giggles, I looked at all the D1 recruits in Iowa. Only 3 have an Iowa school as their favorite (1 U of I, 2 for UNI). Rhode Island has 2, for crying out loud. Too funny.

A really cool thing would be that if you recruit a player from a high school and he is a big time player for you at D1 there would be more players from that school in the next 4-10 years that have their favorite as you. It would be kinda realistic cause everyone would want to be like him.

Probably would never happen here on HD but it would be cool.

Obviously that blue chipper is a huge Jerry Rice fan.

Ugh.

Lets stop complaining about things that are getting fixed.

now if we can just fix the way you "thinks"

News to me, z. Guess I missed that announcement. So did the CS peeps apparently. Mentioned it to CS and got this reply:



Thanks for the suggestion. Haven't heard a thing in regard to that but will ensure that it gets to Admin for consideration and review for you.

11/04/2009 at 9:30 am Search for other posts by seble
seble

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Forum Posts: 3656 Working on recruit creation now. It's shaping up and we're getting close to where we want to be. Overall it probably won't look that much different, but there will be more of a bunching toward the average with fewer extremes. But those extremes may be a bit better than what you get now.

Also, I'm tweaking the selection of favorite school a bit. It will be spread out a little more than it is currently. Basically, if a player wants to stay close to home, his favorite will be a school pretty close to him and vice versa if the player wants to be far from home. If he has no preference it could be a nearby school or a nationally prominent school based on prestige. But the latter group will include more schools than it does currently. Also, a recruit's favorite should now be a school that he will actually be interested in attending based on his talent. Overall, maybe not quite as realistic but should work better within the context of the game.