Posted by grimacedance on 11/24/2017 3:18:00 PM (view original):
When scheduling SIMs, I wait until the last possible minute. Here's why.
Everyone knows to schedule beatable SIMs that have a lot of returning players. The problem is that if everyone schedules that SIM, they aren't a good choice to play anymore. For example, if the #102 RPI is a SIM that is returning 10 players in a SIM-heavy conference, everyone in the top 50 that is looking for an easy win will schedule them. So that team will go 0-10 or 1-9 in nonconference play. defeating the purpose of scheduling that SIM.
There might be another SIM in that same conference that is returning 9 guys and the team isn't as good, but no other human has scheduled them and they will go 7-3 in nonconference play.
If a SIM team is scheduled to play more than 3 humans next season, I will usually pass on scheduling them.
Same. I don’t start scheduling sims to fill non-con until CT time. Preferably the day of the championship game. I sort by RPI, and starting about 75 or so (lower, if I think my team is fairly weak) I start looking at sims. I give equal weight to players returning as I do to how many humans they already have on their schedule. If they’ve already got 4 or more humans on the non-con schedule, I move on. Likewise, if they play in a conference with more than 3 human opponents, I move on.
The downside is that I occasionally forget altogether.