Our first free HD world has 115 coaches as of today. How many do you think come back tomorrow morning?

73

65

I reserved a DII program in Allen...prob should have picked up a DIII squad in hindsight.

Any idea what the population was before the influx of new coaches?

42

I think near 50. Agree 65 is a nice target.

I've tried to do my part to help! I will ambitiously say around 71!

Well Top and I tie for being within 1. But using Price is Right rules, top didn't go over and wins.

72 d3 teams.

Posted by tgblackw on 5/11/2020 4:37:00 PM (view original):
Any idea what the population was before the influx of new coaches?

Here you go

1/9/20	D1	D2	D3
Naismith	91	71	60	222
Wooden	108	49	49	206
Rupp	110	53	53	216
Smith	109	61	63	233
Iba	91	73	55	219
Allen	103	56	53	212
Crum	96	67	44	207
Tark	121	65	58	244
Knight	112	54	62	228
Phelan	110	65	45	220
	1051	614	542	2207

So Allen gained about 20 D3 coaches. Tark, Phelan and Rupp all gained about 10. Party time baby!!

Although Allen D2 dropped 10 coaches. So maybe some movement in there.

Posted by Benis on 5/12/2020 9:30:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tgblackw on 5/11/2020 4:37:00 PM (view original):
Any idea what the population was before the influx of new coaches?

Here you go

1/9/20	D1	D2	D3
Naismith	91	71	60	222
Wooden	108	49	49	206
Rupp	110	53	53	216
Smith	109	61	63	233
Iba	91	73	55	219
Allen	103	56	53	212
Crum	96	67	44	207
Tark	121	65	58	244
Knight	112	54	62	228
Phelan	110	65	45	220
	1051	614	542	2207

So Allen gained about 20 D3 coaches. Tark, Phelan and Rupp all gained about 10. Party time baby!!

Phelan D3 has 82 humans right now. Tarkanian D3 has 99. What kind of math is this?

They need to definitely give players their first 2 seasons free due to split recruiting and possibly let new players join D1 right away. What is the downside to both of those? People creating new accounts over and over again to keep a team for free I guess? The death of D3?

Then say free seasons are D3 only but if you purchase a season you can join D1 right away. The average person does not want to spend a calendar year working their way through schools they've never heard of just so they can takeover a D prestige team in the Metro-Atlantic.

Posted by Baums_away on 5/12/2020 12:37:00 PM (view original):
They need to definitely give players their first 2 seasons free due to split recruiting and possibly let new players join D1 right away. What is the downside to both of those? People creating new accounts over and over again to keep a team for free I guess? The death of D3?

Then say free seasons are D3 only but if you purchase a season you can join D1 right away. The average person does not want to spend a calendar year working their way through schools they've never heard of just so they can takeover a D prestige team in the Metro-Atlantic.

+1

Posted by cubcub113 on 5/12/2020 12:47:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Baums_away on 5/12/2020 12:37:00 PM (view original):
They need to definitely give players their first 2 seasons free due to split recruiting and possibly let new players join D1 right away. What is the downside to both of those? People creating new accounts over and over again to keep a team for free I guess? The death of D3?

Then say free seasons are D3 only but if you purchase a season you can join D1 right away. The average person does not want to spend a calendar year working their way through schools they've never heard of just so they can takeover a D prestige team in the Metro-Atlantic.

+1

Agreed.

I think they need to diversify their promotions in general.

Why not offer half off on 6-packs to new users? The long-term gains for that could be tremendous. You get human coached worlds with multiple seasons and those people will buy more and more seasons once they get a chance to actually build a program over 4 years.

I did an analysis of Knight 23 games into the season and the 46 brand new D3 coaches who had never coached before in any world had an average record of 10-13 and a median record of 9-13. First year coaches in Knight with at least 2 seasons of experience in other worlds in HD had an average win-loss record of 16-7 and a median record of 17.5-4.5.

Going to update this analysis at end of the season but I'm pretty sure based on the data I have, 1 of those 46 coaches made the NT and no more than 6 of them made the post-season. That's not necessarily going to encourage these players to return for a fully paid season 2...

Posted by shoe3 on 5/12/2020 9:59:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 5/12/2020 9:30:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tgblackw on 5/11/2020 4:37:00 PM (view original):
Any idea what the population was before the influx of new coaches?

Here you go

1/9/20	D1	D2	D3
Naismith	91	71	60	222
Wooden	108	49	49	206
Rupp	110	53	53	216
Smith	109	61	63	233
Iba	91	73	55	219
Allen	103	56	53	212
Crum	96	67	44	207
Tark	121	65	58	244
Knight	112	54	62	228
Phelan	110	65	45	220
	1051	614	542	2207

So Allen gained about 20 D3 coaches. Tark, Phelan and Rupp all gained about 10. Party time baby!!

Phelan D3 has 82 humans right now. Tarkanian D3 has 99. What kind of math is this?

Look at the date. I think the numbers aren't based on NOW. But before the free season promo