Used to be that along with EEs, we saw news of guys otherwise leaving teams. Didnt see any today in Wooden. Is that reporting gone?

I miss that feature too! I am thinking it is gone forever.

WIS made the choice to make it such that you had to "discover" transfers. So, the news disappeared. I am not sure why, if transfers level 1 initially displays all "F" even though that is not accurate, that they need to be hidden at all.

New admin should take a look at that and just put an "*" in the place of the "F", so that you have to scout 4 levels, but transfer players should not be hidden.

Transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find. You just have to look for them, and that is entirely consistent with players having to be discovered. Not sure what your objection is.

why was the announcement that the players had left terminated - why get rid of it?

Posted by metsmax on 1/6/2017 12:31:00 PM (view original):
why was the announcement that the players had left terminated - why get rid of it?

The development concept was that ALL recruits needed to be "discovered". If the "news" feed contained information about who transferred, then you could backtrack and "find" where they would be and specifically search for them. So, the x'fer announcement was deleted to prevent that.

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 12:13:00 PM (view original):
Transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find. You just have to look for them, and that is entirely consistent with players having to be discovered. Not sure what your objection is.

Words have meaning! Something can be "hidden" and still able to be found. However, what you elide over is that you can discover local x'fers fairly easily, but you have no real way of knowing how many more might at distance. I know you are unfamiliar with how to play the game competitively, but do try to keep up with language.

Have signed tons of transfers and not just the ones that emailed me. They show up when you do scouting service in their home state, and also Assistant searches. I too feel it is a non issue.

Posted by rogelio on 1/6/2017 12:48:00 PM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 12:13:00 PM (view original):
Transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find. You just have to look for them, and that is entirely consistent with players having to be discovered. Not sure what your objection is.

Words have meaning! Something can be "hidden" and still able to be found. However, what you elide over is that you can discover local x'fers fairly easily, but you have no real way of knowing how many more might at distance. I know you are unfamiliar with how to play the game competitively, but do try to keep up with language.

ALL recruits are discoverable. ALL must be discovered. You have no way of knowing how many more of ANY class of recruit might be at a distance. So did you think it was so important to swing at me and entirely miss that you posted, in effect, A = A?

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 1:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rogelio on 1/6/2017 12:48:00 PM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 12:13:00 PM (view original):
Transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find. You just have to look for them, and that is entirely consistent with players having to be discovered. Not sure what your objection is.

Words have meaning! Something can be "hidden" and still able to be found. However, what you elide over is that you can discover local x'fers fairly easily, but you have no real way of knowing how many more might at distance. I know you are unfamiliar with how to play the game competitively, but do try to keep up with language.

Hey, buddy, what a stupid post. Have another coffee and try to keep up.

ALL recruits are discoverable. ALL must be discovered. You have no way of knowing how many more of ANY class of recruit might be at a distance. So did you think it was so important to swing at me and entirely miss that you posted, in effect, A = A?

Did Spud catch his wife banging the mailman over the holidays? Why is he so salty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_potatoes

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 1:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rogelio on 1/6/2017 12:48:00 PM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 12:13:00 PM (view original):
Transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find. You just have to look for them, and that is entirely consistent with players having to be discovered. Not sure what your objection is.

Words have meaning! Something can be "hidden" and still able to be found. However, what you elide over is that you can discover local x'fers fairly easily, but you have no real way of knowing how many more might at distance. I know you are unfamiliar with how to play the game competitively, but do try to keep up with language.

Hey, buddy, what a stupid post. Have another coffee and try to keep up.

ALL recruits are discoverable. ALL must be discovered. You have no way of knowing how many more of ANY class of recruit might be at a distance. So did you think it was so important to swing at me and entirely miss that you posted, in effect, A = A?

What are you talking about?! Your logic was that something is not hidden if, with effort, it could be found. That thinking is fatuous nonsense. When the Easter bunny hides eggs for children, they are correctly described as hidden despite the fact that we expect that a toddler should be able to find them.

Current reality in HD: Joe Smith plays at Clemson. Joe gets angry about PT and quits after his sophomore year. Joe is deleted from the player roster of Clemson immediately, no "news" of his departure is posted (as it used to be), and his initial ratings all appear as "F" at level 1. Joe will contact a set of schools with some logic for locale & preferences, but otherwise remains hidden. His stats at Clemson are also made unavailable even after "discovered", which means that you cannot tell if he was ineligible as a freshman or not.

All of that reflects choices made by the developer that may be debated. The "F" ratings might not even reflect a choice, but may have simply been an error. The question is whether the choice to make Wake Forest or S.C. State "go fish" for a player that they may have played against the prior seasons makes any sense. BTW, if you knew that happened, you could pull up his player card via the box score for that game and locate all the information on him, but then you would still have to "discover" him again by scouting.

Many find that a poor choice and it certainly reflects an effort by the game designers to force x'fers to fit into their game design in a way that does not make a great deal of sense.

"What are you talking about?! Your logic was that something is not hidden if, with effort, it could be found. That thinking is fatuous nonsense. When the Easter bunny hides eggs for children, they are correctly described as hidden despite the fact that we expect that a toddler should be able to find them."

I appreciate that you are trying hard to back up your thinking, but you haven't succeeded. "Hiding" is an active verb. Transfers are "hidden" no differently than all other recruits. ALL recruits must be discovered, equally. Transfers are, if anything, LESS hidden than regular recruits because they are effectively flagged by being all F's.

So, in summary, transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find.

BTW, since you are so interested in "fatuous nonsense," I doubt you can restate in your own words any of my suggestions about the game ... ANY of them.

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 3:55:00 PM (view original):
"What are you talking about?! Your logic was that something is not hidden if, with effort, it could be found. That thinking is fatuous nonsense. When the Easter bunny hides eggs for children, they are correctly described as hidden despite the fact that we expect that a toddler should be able to find them."

I appreciate that you are trying hard to back up your thinking, but you haven't succeeded. "Hiding" is an active verb. Transfers are "hidden" no differently than all other recruits. ALL recruits must be discovered, equally. Transfers are, if anything, LESS hidden than regular recruits because they are effectively flagged by being all F's.

So, in summary, transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find.

Top 100 players don't need to be discovered.

Posted by Benis on 1/6/2017 4:08:00 PM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/6/2017 3:55:00 PM (view original):
"What are you talking about?! Your logic was that something is not hidden if, with effort, it could be found. That thinking is fatuous nonsense. When the Easter bunny hides eggs for children, they are correctly described as hidden despite the fact that we expect that a toddler should be able to find them."

I appreciate that you are trying hard to back up your thinking, but you haven't succeeded. "Hiding" is an active verb. Transfers are "hidden" no differently than all other recruits. ALL recruits must be discovered, equally. Transfers are, if anything, LESS hidden than regular recruits because they are effectively flagged by being all F's.

So, in summary, transfers aren't "hidden." They are actually quite easy to find.

Top 100 players don't need to be discovered.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.