Posted by basoy6658 on 5/27/2019 11:35:00 AM (view original):
Posted by thewizard17 on 5/26/2019 10:50:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Benis on 5/24/2019 11:13:00 AM (view original):
You know this game is completely FUBAR when there are posts asking if a D3 team can sign a 5 star recruit.
We'll give this guy, the original poster, a pass, since he's probably new.
To whoever else said he actually had a chance. Shame on you.
how bout a DII team and DIII team battling it out for a DI player? With consideration both at moderate will the DIII stand a chance now?
The D3 has a chance, but only if the D2 is not highly prioritizing the recruit, or if the D3 has a much better preference profile. The D3 will have to amass much more effort credit, because the D2 team will be able to sign most D1 players during the first cycles of RS2, before the D3 will be able to move above moderate.
This is really important to understand, and a lot of folks still get this wrong.
1) If a D2 and D3 are listed at moderate in RS1, you have no way to know who is “in the lead”. All you know for sure is that both teams are somewhat close in terms of effort credit amassed, and neither can sign the player yet, because you can’t sign D1 guys in the first session, unless you’re a D1 team.
2) If the D2 is ahead in effort credit, and the player has an early or end of period 1 preference, the player will sign with the D2 team immediately in the first cycle of RS2, and that D2 team will be listed as the only “very high” team in consideration.
3) If the D3 is ahead, but not enough to keep the D2 team to moderate, and the player has an early or end of period 1 preference, the player will sign with the D2 team immediately in the first cycle of RS2. In that case, the D2 team could be listed at very high or high. The D3 will still show up as moderate, even if it has considerably more effort credit, because of the “red light” - D3 teams can’t sign D1 pool players until the last 6 cycles / 24 hours.
4) If the D3 has enough of a preference advantage, or has much more highly prioritized the recruit, the D3 team can keep the D2 to moderate throughout the first 5 cycles of RS2. This is the only way the D3 team can win the battle. In that case, once the red light is lifted, on the 6th cycle of RS2, the D3 team will immediately jump to “very high” on consideration, while the D2 stays at moderate. (If the D2 team is listed as anything other than moderate in this case, it’s because the D2 team made a considerable effort credit push on that cycle. This almost never happens, most D2+ teams have spent the resources they’re going to spend well before the last 24 hours.)
5) As a D3 battling a D2, targeting late signing tendency players doesn’t really help, because very few of those players wait until the 6th cycle of RS2 to sign. So you’ll still need to beat the D2 rival in terms of effort credit by a considerable amount in order to keep them at moderate.
5/27/2019 2:38 PM (edited)