I have never seen this topic. How much weight do you put into an eval listing a player as having the potential to be an All American when recruiting or any thoughts on the subject

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I think *on average*, for my DI team, when the assistant coach says that he's best suited for mid to mid major, the player is usually better than when he says 'a DII school would be lucky to get him, otherwise he's best suited for low level DI'. now of course, you should only be using the ratings and potentials to evaluate players and not the assistant coach recommendation, but I do think that the recommendation is usually reflective of the caliber of player

Good info, thanks. Have used it as tiebreaker and need to go through paperwork to compare recruits with this message and how they are faring. Good to know it is more than window dressing.

carl i would basically ignore it. don't even use it as a tiebreaker. i didn't mean to give you that impression. I was sort of just making an observation that it does generally correspond to better players. of course, better ratings and potentials correspond even more strongly to better players, so use those.

while technically, it may not be 100% window dressing... to be frank, anybody playing at that level of refinement is totally screwed. no offense, thats just the way it is.

the sim is a terrible judge of the value of players. look at player rankings. or recruit class rankings. none of that stuff even takes into account potential. if you can't look at a player, with potential, and judge better than the sim's terrible valuation of a player's raw categories... then refer to line 1 of this post.


edit: again, no offense to those who have already posted. i am just trying to point out the incredible uselessness of the comment in question.

I was just curious and interested in opinions. of course base recruiting on ratings,potential. Thanks for all the tips and will be sure to clear it with forum regulators and make sure the next topic is not useless. Add sarcasm here.

i didnt say the topic was useless... i said the comment in the eval was useless. maybe that wasn't clear by the use of "comment", but i absolutely was not knocking the topic.