Not to such a big degree. I would try to at least assign the attention points between 8 AM and 5 PM on the 17th. If you do that, they will stay on those players until you do something else. So, if you put 40 points on 3 players, at 5 PM they would each have 40, then the next cycle (11 PM - 6 hour cycles), they would each have accumulated 80. In 3.0 it does not matter as much if you are behind at the beginning, because recruiting is so long, and many more teams will be on a lot of players. Just try to be sure to get that initial attention points in on the 17th though, or else that will handicap you a little bit.