C'mon you Cardinals! (FBCB)

[Young Drachma]

So using one of my saves of my Omnibus NCAA league with all of the divisions, I'm taking over Plattsburgh State of the SUNY Athletic Conference. The team has not made the postseason of any kind since 1944 and we just finished the 1994 season in this league, it's the longest drought in that conference.

My goal is obviously to make the post-season, but I'm going to try to do it through scouting without ratings. I'm going to use stats + national rankings only. I'm also going to attempt to implement some kind of system, even though I realize people have already basically figured out the ways to win with this game, but I'd like to feel like I'm playing with some sense of purpose since in the past I've just sort of monkeyed around with it marginally and little else.

The team's current Prestige rating is a 45. The last winning season was three years ago.



PLATTSBURGH STATE TEAM PERFORMANCE

Season Team W L CW CL Rank RPI PRS Result
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1994 Plattsburgh State 10 20 8 10 896 694 45 No Postseason
1993 Plattsburgh State 12 18 10 8 782 606 46 No Postseason
1992 Plattsburgh State 13 17 8 10 691 624 46 No Postseason
1991 Plattsburgh State 19 12 10 8 209 213 48 No Postseason
1990 Plattsburgh State 12 17 6 12 709 439 47 No Postseason
1989 Plattsburgh State 19 13 13 5 280 165 50 No Postseason
1988 Plattsburgh State 8 21 6 12 975 836 47 No Postseason
1987 Plattsburgh State 23 9 12 6 74 75 51 No Postseason
1986 Plattsburgh State 18 13 9 9 298 371 49 No Postseason
1985 Plattsburgh State 22 8 12 6 117 154 50 No Postseason
1984 Plattsburgh State 18 12 11 7 265 393 48 No Postseason
1983 Plattsburgh State 22 10 12 6 145 136 49 No Postseason
1982 Plattsburgh State 20 12 11 7 147 129 46 No Postseason
1981 Plattsburgh State 13 16 6 12 644 782 43 No Postseason
1980 Plattsburgh State 17 13 9 9 334 420 44 No Postseason
1979 Plattsburgh State 10 19 4 14 847 738 40 No Postseason
1978 Plattsburgh State 16 14 8 10 433 573 40 No Postseason
1977 Plattsburgh State 15 14 8 10 474 661 36 No Postseason
1976 Plattsburgh State 18 14 10 8 361 343 36 No Postseason
1975 Plattsburgh State 17 14 9 9 378 310 32 No Postseason
1974 Plattsburgh State 11 18 6 12 787 746 27 No Postseason
1973 Plattsburgh State 8 21 3 15 986 883 27 No Postseason
1972 Plattsburgh State 11 19 8 10 834 837 28 No Postseason
1971 Plattsburgh State 16 14 10 8 441 516 28 No Postseason
1970 Plattsburgh State 10 19 6 12 879 770 24 No Postseason
1969 Plattsburgh State 8 21 5 13 966 940 22 No Postseason
1968 Plattsburgh State 14 16 9 9 585 553 21 No Postseason
1967 Plattsburgh State 10 20 8 10 897 824 20 No Postseason
1966 Plattsburgh State 12 18 9 9 776 785 18 No Postseason
1965 Plattsburgh State 12 17 7 11 748 851 16 No Postseason
1964 Plattsburgh State 14 16 9 9 590 516 18 No Postseason
1963 Plattsburgh State 16 14 11 7 436 698 19 No Postseason
1962 Plattsburgh State 10 20 8 10 913 822 19 No Postseason
1961 Plattsburgh State 14 15 6 12 567 588 21 No Postseason
1960 Plattsburgh State 20 11 13 5 244 346 22 No Postseason
1959 Plattsburgh State 19 11 12 6 258 315 20 No Postseason
1958 Plattsburgh State 13 18 9 9 707 788 16 No Postseason
1957 Plattsburgh State 10 19 6 12 878 914 15 No Postseason
1956 Plattsburgh State 9 20 7 11 927 923 17 No Postseason
1955 Plattsburgh State 12 18 8 10 774 588 19 No Postseason
1954 Plattsburgh State 11 18 7 11 806 892 20 No Postseason
1953 Plattsburgh State 13 17 9 9 698 705 24 No Postseason
1952 Plattsburgh State 20 12 9 9 229 181 25 No Postseason
1951 Plattsburgh State 12 19 10 8 820 831 25 No Postseason
1950 Plattsburgh State 12 18 8 10 767 536 27 No Postseason
1949 Plattsburgh State 22 8 14 4 182 370 30 No Postseason
1948 Plattsburgh State 19 13 11 7 281 409 28 No Postseason
1947 Plattsburgh State 9 20 5 13 937 959 28 No Postseason
1946 Plattsburgh State 17 15 11 7 410 198 33 No Postseason
1945 Plattsburgh State 17 14 12 6 389 592 31 No Postseason
1944 Plattsburgh State 23 9 15 3 107 201 30 Loss in D2 Round 1
1943 Plattsburgh State 27 8 14 4 101 95 27 Loss in D3 Round 3
1942 Plattsburgh State 28 5 18 0 76 167 23 Loss in NIT Round 1
1941 Plattsburgh State 22 10 10 8 209 372 19 No Postseason
1940 Plattsburgh State 14 16 9 9 594 718 15 No Postseason
1939 Plattsburgh State 18 12 12 6 291 610 14 No Postseason

[Young Drachma]

Head Coach is 35-year old Adam Lancaster, whose pro experience is two years as an assistant at Dayton, a program that's higher on the totem pole than Plattsburgh and he's a guy in need of a head coaching job. The hope is his high level experience will help the team break through. But recruiting at this level is not an easy feat. With nearly 1000 teams in this universe, post-season berths are hard to come by for the lowest level programs.

Plus D3 programs were set to have hard academics, so I'll probably have to filter for players who have solid grades, as well as the other things we'll be looking for. I'm just curious if a roster of 1-star talent with good stats out of HS can field a competitive team.

I'll be focusing more on that initially, rather than trying to implement a system of any kind, mostly because I'll want to start by fast-simming after recruiting.

[britrock88]

Did teams' academics category become more than a placeholder at some point?

[Young Drachma]

Did teams' academics category become more than a placeholder at some point?

I always thought they had some nebulous effect, but maybe I was always mistaken. Never had anything to back up my assertion, after all.

[Izulde]

I still need to download that Omnibus file. ...I *think* you put it up for download, no?

[Young Drachma]

I still need to download that Omnibus file. ...I *think* you put it up for download, no?

FBCB/FBPB3 Mods (http://games.dorkgm.com/fbcb-mods/)

Here ya go: alldivisions_ncaa (http://www.mediafire.com/download/kka4qz2hs9292bf/alldivisions_ncaa.zip)

[Young Drachma]

Since the first year is me recruiting and playing with whoever the team started with, I scheduled the easiest schedule I could muster. I tried to find low-win teams from auto-bid leagues in the hopes that if we could win -- not likely -- that we could steal our way into a D4 (CBI) bid or something like that, but really, I just want to stay afloat and build some momentum into the first year of playing with my own guys.

I will cut any non-red shirts too, because I want to play with my own players.

[Young Drachma]

With seniors leaving and the players I "dismissed for non-basketball reasons" we will have 9 scholarships for next year. What I'm noticing is a lot of these D3 teams in this omnibus league end up with a lot of walkons because the teams simply go after top players, strike out and then find themselves having to fill with a bunch of non-schollie year after year who they won't cut.

I like it as a sim model, but as a player obviously I'd like to fix it and be more involved. We'll target players who we can get. But I'm not looking at ratings, only at HS stats (post-scouting) and rankings.

As a result, I'll have to stay closer to home for recruiting. I'm normally one of those who likes to go far and wide to find talent, but we simply won't be able to do that with this team because we won't have the resources to spread the field like that.

The other thing is, I will always burn at least one scholarship on a local kid if there is one. It's a ploy most state schools at this level would do. Here's the one local kid from Plattsburgh currently in the DB this off-season.



RECRUIT DETAILS

#53 SG Rhett Brodie
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Height: 6-3
Weight: 180
High School: Beekmantown High School
Hometown: Plattsburgh, NY
GPA: 2.33
Test Score: 1000
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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***** Player hasn't been evaluated *****


Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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14.5 1.3 4.1 4.3 2.3 1.89 1.1 0.9 2.8

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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6.2 14.0 .443 1.9 2.6 .712 0.2 2.8 .071

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Current interest in Plattsburgh State: Very High
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: Middlebury, Seton Hill, Harvard, Franklin Pierce, Shenandoah



I can't imagine he'll be especially useful, but...I like this rule anyway.

[Young Drachma]

With a recruiting pool boasting over 5000 players every year, getting players in the top 5-10% nationally will probably be the target. So we want to get those Top 500 kids to consider us and land Top 1000 kids, because if we're issuing out a scholarship, you want someone who is at least going to be able to boost the program rather than just hoping for magic when they get here.

My other trick is to seek out Mr. Basketballs of small states or all-state players, because I'd suspect that'd indicate they've been vetted by a wider authority who might have some sense of whether they can play or not.

[Jeff W]

What kind of system are you planning to use?

[Young Drachma]

I dunno. I think I want to retrofit this idea a bit...because well I don't have the time to be as detailed and would like to get through more seasons.