Can you beat out a d1 sim team if you are a D2 team for a recruit? The D1 team showed up the very first turn in recruiting. Can i knock them down enough to keep them from offering? The player is a by end of period 1 guy. Im assuming ill have to spend alot early in order to keep the D1 sims low but that comes with the risk of a D1 human just coming in and all my money is wasted. Its been a while since ive played D2 so any insight helps.

In my experience yes you can beat out a D1 sim. What you have to look for is that sims prestige because that could cause a battle. IF a human user jumps on that recruit just give up an move on.

Absolutely you can push a D1 Sim off a recruit, and surprisingly it often doesn't take as much effort as you might imagine. As GM223 pointed out, a lot of it comes down to your / the Sim's prestige, as well as distance / prefs. As a A+ D2 coach, I was able to recently knock off a C D1 Sim with 7 HV, 1 CV, and about 200 pts. Equal distance, and I had a moderate preference advantage. It would've been tougher if I was, say, a C- coach, but still not impossible.

I actually like recruiting vs a D1 Sim, because they recruit in a pretty predictable way, and it's rare they'll come back to beat you once you've knocked them down to Low / Very Low.