STUDY: more than one mentor

[aston217]

I've wondered this myself and seen it asked a couple of times. So I set out to do a study in SP. Simmed through two seasons and picked out a 22/54 QB only lightly developed.

The difficulty is wall street with full x-factor on. I didn't realize that may throw things in doubt a little, but just putting that out there.

I simmed a lot of seasons with two mentors and with one mentor. I carried 3 QBs in each case, although maybe I should try a three mentor case and carry four. The model QB (22/54 2nd-year guy) always starts 16 games. Injuries are off

I did three runs, one run with 2 mentors and two separate one-mentor runs with a different non-mentor QB and maybe a different mentor as well. I saved in the middle of a run by accident, which is why there are two one-mentor runs.

Below are the average CUR increases (potential did not change)

Run A: 2 mentors +7.7/23 runs
Run B: 1 mentor +7.08/12 runs
Run C: 1 mentor +8.88/17 runs

In Run B, my mentor was 5th yr, 22/27, with no affinities. My third QB was 10th yr, 23/29, with one affinity, one mild affinity w/leaders.

In Run C, my mentor was 9th yr, 18/28, one mild affinity, one affinity, one extreme conflict. My third QB was 22/30, 8th yr.

The mentors from B and C were the two mentors in Run A.

Unless there's something where older mentors are more supposed to be more effective, I think all the differences can be attributed to random chance.

I know people have said they've never seen any advantage to having multiple mentors, so here's some data in support of that. Anyone wanting to do a more rigorous study, feel free. This is good enough for me.

[Firefly]

Thanks for posting, Aston

[thenewchuckd]

Thanks for this. For the past while, I have been going crazy signing mentors, often multiple ones. Someone pointed out to me that extra mentors probably did not do too much... And this is great evidence.