One-night dynasties: One & Done era basketball (FBCB)

Young Drachma · 04-14-2023, 09:38 PM

With Hartford going from D1 to D3 in basketball, I started thinking about the portal era and how it's not possible to make that happen in Fast Break College Basketball. Instead, the only thing you can really do is clear out rosters and replace them with new players by taking everyone off scholarship and cutting them and then releasing the rest to the draft so they leave after the current season.

I don't want to do a long dynasty that I won't ever come back to, but I'm wondering if I can run a several seasons experiment in my current long-running FBCB save where I take over a team, release everybody and max their budget (by changing the assistant salaries to $1 before start of the recruiting period, so the game uses it all) and see what sorts of players they can sign when they have max scholarships to offer. (where I do typically DC-like shit, playing in God-mode and renaming terribly named players and randomly moving teams across conferences and adding teams that should be D1)

Every year in FBCB, there are tons of good players who simply go unsigned by teams because they don't have scholarships and instead of diffusing to bad programs, they all want to play at good schools, the good schools don't offer them and they either walk on sign very late to programs where they might not play. My saves use a custom FBCB.ini file that maximizes talent to reflect the "hidden gems" of real-life college sports, in a way that the game model does not allow for as easily.

I also fixed my height.ini file along with that FBCB file to try to reflect more position-less basketball, but with nearly 400 teams and having learned how to induce more upsets (by changing the pace of play in-game throughout the season) I feel like it'd be fun to see what weird stuff we could induce.

Usually, I'd take over some program that is in some random conference and isn't known to be a power school, but since we're trying to mimic the current era of college sports with one-and-dones (right now, my league is at juniors leaving...because I am not playing an NBA file actively) then we'll shop for some down-on-their-luck major programs, coupled with an upstart or two.

I'll probably help them by building a manual schedule too, but then we'll just simulate the season and see how the team does after checking out their haul of recruits and seeing what they were able to get and what they did.

The game is really bad at generating useful transfers, but I might even experiment with one of the teams using ONLY transfers and seeing how good a team that does that can maximize. Given how bad most transfers are in-game, it's unlikely that it'll do much, but I'm still curious about it.

Let's see if I can channel my dynasty energy into a hour or two of interesting storylines.

Young Drachma · 04-14-2023, 09:45 PM

I'm going to increase quarter-seconds to 2400 and keep pace in the 1200-1300 range so that 1) scores don't get high but 2) more guys get to play in the hopes that it'll make our transfers actually have stats when they transfer versus what mostly happens in this game, where you get a bunch of redshirts and greyshirts who transfer without every having played.

Right now, only going to commit to one season of this weirdness unless I find the whole storyline compelling enough to do for another season.

This first season, all we'll do is identify the teams we're going to use and simulate to the post-season since I can't really do anything re: transfers until after the season ends.

Here's the current state of the recent national champions

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NCAA Champs

 Season   Team                             Record Opponent                                   Score
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 2031     DePaul Blue Demons                26-12 South Carolina State Bulldogs              65-51
 2030     Mississippi State Bulldogs         39-0 North Carolina Central Eagles              85-76
 2029     North Carolina Central Eagles      39-1 West Virginia Mountaineers                 78-49
 2028     Texas State Bobcats                30-6 North Carolina Central Eagles              85-84
 2027     Charlotte 49ers                    36-4 UTSA Roadrunners                           74-65
 2026     Charlotte 49ers                    33-5 Cleveland State Vikings                    86-59
 2025     UTSA Roadrunners                  30-10 TCU Horned Frogs                           82-76
 2024     Western Michigan Broncos           31-8 Loyola Marymount Lions                     60-56
 2023     Alcorn State Braves                31-6 Minnesota Golden Gophers                   71-49
 2022     North Carolina Tar Heels           34-6 Charlotte 49ers                            78-77
 2021     St. John's Red Storm               29-7 North Carolina Tar Heels                 106-100
 2020     Georgia Bulldogs                   34-4 Ole Miss Rebels                            82-55
 2019     Houston Cougars                    29-9 West Virginia Mountaineers                 73-58
 2018     San Francisco Dons                 29-9 Ole Miss Rebels                            66-65
 2017     Virginia Cavaliers                 32-6 TCU Horned Frogs                           72-71
 2016     USC Trojans                        33-5 BYU Cougars                                73-67
 2015     Delaware State Hornets             37-2 Houston Cougars                            84-59
 2014     Houston Cougars                    28-9 Delaware State Hornets                    101-93
 2013     Syracuse Orange                   31-10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish                  66-56
 2012     Minnesota Golden Gophers           36-3 Florida A&M Rattlers                       78-77
 2011     BYU Cougars                        33-4 Boston College Eagles                      63-53
 2010     Oklahoma Sooners                   33-6 Stanford Cardinal                          66-53
 2009     Oklahoma Sooners                   31-6 Howard Bison                               97-90
 2008     Boston College Eagles              33-4 UCLA Bruins                                79-57
 2007     Wisconsin Badgers                  33-6 UCLA Bruins                                86-77
 2006     UCLA Bruins                        33-6 Ole Miss Rebels                            88-78
 2005     North Carolina Tar Heels          29-11 Florida State Seminoles                    99-89
 2004     North Carolina Central Eagles      35-3 North Carolina Tar Heels                  105-96
 2003     Pepperdine Waves                   37-1 LSU Tigers                                 73-66
 2002     North Carolina Tar Heels           31-8 Rutgers Scarlet Knights                    75-62
 2001     Texas Southern Tigers              33-5 Memphis Tigers                            102-92
 2000     Cincinnati Bearcats                38-1 Georgia Bulldogs                           96-87
 1999     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            35-4 Maryland Terrapins                         98-77
 1998     UCLA Bruins                        32-5 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils      99-67
 1997     UCLA Bruins                        33-6 St. John's Red Storm                       93-91
 1996     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            31-7 UCF Knights                                87-85
 1995     UTSA Roadrunners                   37-2 UCLA Bruins                                92-89
 1994     Cincinnati Bearcats                33-7 Maryland Terrapins                         56-45
 1993     St. John's Red Storm               34-5 Wisconsin Badgers                          79-69

 Season   Team                             Record Opponent                                   Score
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 1992     Texas Tech Red Raiders             29-9 St. John's Red Storm                       78-76
 1991     Wisconsin Badgers                  36-3 UCF Knights                                94-77
 1990     Memphis Tigers                     34-5 Long Beach State 49ers                     86-60
 1989     St. John's Red Storm               38-1 Villanova Wildcats                         77-63
 1988     Memphis Tigers                    29-10 St. John's Red Storm                      100-91
 1987     St. John's Red Storm               34-4 UTSA Roadrunners                           83-73
 1986     Rutgers Scarlet Knights           27-11 UCF Knights                                81-64
 1985     UCLA Bruins                        32-6 Rutgers Scarlet Knights                    67-63
 1984     Cincinnati Bearcats                34-5 UCLA Bruins                                81-75
 1983     UCLA Bruins                       28-10 Ole Miss Rebels                            59-55
 1982     LSU Tigers                         31-8 Minnesota Golden Gophers                   96-77
 1981     Florida State Seminoles            37-2 Butler Bulldogs                            72-63
 1980     Florida State Seminoles            35-3 South Carolina Gamecocks                   93-90
 1979     UCLA Bruins                        36-3 UConn Huskies                              66-53
 1978     North Carolina Tar Heels           30-5 Northern Iowa Panthers                     67-66
 1977     Georgia Bulldogs                   33-8 St. John's Red Storm                       98-92
 1976     Oklahoma Sooners                   36-3 Rutgers Scarlet Knights                    88-80
 1975     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            34-5 Minnesota Golden Gophers                   82-74
 1974     North Carolina Tar Heels           32-5 Pittsburgh Panthers                        77-66
 1973     North Carolina Tar Heels           32-7 Memphis Tigers                             78-64
 1972     NC State Wolfpack                 28-12 Georgia Bulldogs                           92-84
 1971     Memphis Tigers                    25-10 Minnesota Golden Gophers                   78-70
 1970     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            33-6 South Carolina Gamecocks                   62-60
 1969     USC Trojans                       28-10 UCLA Bruins                                90-81
 1968     Florida State Seminoles            32-6 UCF Knights                                93-86
 1967     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            35-2 BYU Cougars                                89-73
 1966     Oklahoma Sooners                   34-5 Cincinnati Bearcats                        93-74
 1965     Rice Owls                          31-7 Florida State Seminoles                    69-60
 1964     St. John's Red Storm               34-5 Georgetown Hoyas                           82-80
 1963     UConn Huskies                      29-9 NC State Wolfpack                          78-44
 1962     Memphis Tigers                     38-2 North Carolina Tar Heels                   66-64
 1961     NC State Wolfpack                  31-8 Oklahoma Sooners                           70-62
 1960     Florida State Seminoles           28-11 Georgetown Hoyas                           71-62
 1959     Rutgers Scarlet Knights            35-3 Maine Black Bears                          80-51
 1958     Loyola Chicago Ramblers           26-12 UCLA Bruins                                69-67
 1957     Tulane Green Wave                  30-8 New Hampshire Wildcats                     71-64
 1956     Oklahoma Sooners                   35-3 Buffalo Bulls                              63-51
 1955     St. John's Red Storm               35-3 UCF Knights                                79-75
 1954     North Texas Mean Green             29-9 USC Trojans                                55-49
 1953     NC State Wolfpack                  36-2 Harvard Crimson                            69-50

 Season   Team                             Record Opponent                                   Score
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 1952     Cincinnati Bearcats               28-10 George Mason Patriots                      73-72
 1951     Minnesota Golden Gophers           33-5 Texas A&M Aggies                           96-89
 1950     UCF Knights                        33-5 St. John's Red Storm                     106-102
 1949     Memphis Tigers                     34-4 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets              123-121
 1948     Tulane Green Wave                  32-6 Old Dominion Monarchs                      90-74
 1947     UCF Knights                        35-4 Memphis Tigers                             96-91
 1946     Georgetown Hoyas                   34-4 Colorado Buffaloes                         82-79
 1945     NC State Wolfpack                  37-1 St. John's Red Storm                      112-90
 1944     UL Monroe Warhawks                 32-5 Tennessee Volunteers                       84-76
 1943     West Virginia Mountaineers         34-5 Gonzaga Bulldogs                           83-80
 1942     Texas Tech Red Raiders             31-7 Texas A&M Aggies                           73-69
 1941     Gonzaga Bulldogs                   32-5 Miami (OH) RedHawks                        71-53
 1940     Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets        37-1 Texas Tech Red Raiders                     92-77
 1939     Syracuse Orange                    33-5 Eastern Illinois Panthers                  93-85

Young Drachma · 04-14-2023, 09:52 PM

Our first target program for this storyline are the Washington Huskies who still play in the charred husk of the Pac-12, but have only made the NCAA tournament one time in their history somehow in 1956. Only Vanderbilt is the other major conference program with only one NCAA appearance.

So we'll release everybody from their roster, first with the walk-ons and then with existing players after this season. That means, this year they'll play without any intervention including recruiting and we don't take over until March when we scavenge what's left of the recruiting board, fire the head coach & begin the one-year salvage job.

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WASHINGTON TEAM PERFORMANCE

  Season Team           W   L  CW  CL  Rank  RPI  PRS Result                    
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    2031 Washington    15  16   7  11   205  151   52 No Postseason             
    2030 Washington    13  18   6  12   256  174   54 No Postseason             
    2029 Washington    11  20   6  12   298  167   56 No Postseason             
    2028 Washington    12  19   8  10   282  177   56 No Postseason             
    2027 Washington    22  13  11   7    56   52   56 Loss in NIT Round 2       
    2026 Washington    19  14  10   8   122  169   53 No Postseason             
    2025 Washington    13  18   7  11   246  241   51 No Postseason             
    2024 Washington    16  16   9   9   176  183   51 No Postseason             
    2023 Washington     9  22   5  13   343  298   51 No Postseason             
    2022 Washington     9  21   6  12   328  296   53 No Postseason             
    2021 Washington    11  20   6  12   298  259   54 No Postseason             
    2020 Washington    25   7  15   3    69   83   55 Loss in NIT Round 1       
    2019 Washington    12  17   8  10   251  198   51 No Postseason             
    2018 Washington    13  18   7  11   249  207   51 No Postseason             
    2017 Washington    15  16   9   9   182  172   52 No Postseason             
    2016 Washington    15  18   6  12   223  179   51 No Postseason             
    2015 Washington    14  17   9   9   214  155   51 No Postseason             
    2014 Washington    17  14   8  10   129  148   50 No Postseason             
    2013 Washington    14  17   7  11   223  179   48 No Postseason             
    2012 Washington    12  18   6  12   257  243   49 No Postseason             
    2011 Washington    23  10  12   6    43   50   50 Loss in NIT Round 2       
    2010 Washington    14  17   7  11   218  151   45 No Postseason             
    2009 Washington     9  21   7  11   327  272   44 No Postseason             
    2008 Washington     7  22   5  13   351  343   44 No Postseason             
    2007 Washington     9  20   6  12   312  318   45 No Postseason             
    2006 Washington     8  22   5  13   337  301   45 No Postseason             
    2005 Washington    11  20   6  12   292  304   47 No Postseason             
    2004 Washington    15  16   7  11   191  159   48 No Postseason             
    2003 Washington    18  14  10   8   116  120   47 No Postseason             
    2002 Washington    11  20   6  12   287  290   45 No Postseason             
    2001 Washington    11  19   6  12   275  228   46 No Postseason             
    2000 Washington     7  24   6  12   353  249   46 No Postseason             
    1999 Washington     8  23   3  15   347  267   46 No Postseason             
    1998 Washington    21  11  11   7    90  139   48 No Postseason             
    1997 Washington    14  20   7  11   255  153   43 No Postseason             
    1996 Washington     8  22   3  15   346  208   43 No Postseason             
    1995 Washington    14  15   6  12   188  136   44 No Postseason             
    1994 Washington    15  17   6  12   208  147   45 No Postseason             
    1993 Washington    17  15   7  11   131   96   44 No Postseason             
    1992 Washington    11  19   4  14   290  279   44 No Postseason             
    1991 Washington    14  16  10   8   192  212   45 No Postseason             
    1990 Washington     6  23   0  18   352  333   43 No Postseason             
    1989 Washington    12  17   6  12   234  224   45 No Postseason             
    1988 Washington    14  15   7  11   189  221   44 No Postseason             
    1987 Washington    13  18   7  11   245  264   42 No Postseason             
    1986 Washington    11  20   4  14   296  229   44 No Postseason             
    1985 Washington    10  21   4  14   312  250   46 No Postseason             
    1984 Washington    16  14   6  12   136  199   48 No Postseason             
    1983 Washington    14  17   7  11   231  268   51 No Postseason             
    1982 Washington    11  21   5  13   309  318   51 No Postseason             
    1981 Washington    21  11  11   7    67   90   52 Loss in NIT Round 2       
    1980 Washington     7  24   5  13   353  293   48 No Postseason             
    1979 Washington     9  23   5  13   341  321   50 No Postseason             
    1978 Washington    12  18   6  12   264  213   53 No Postseason             
    1977 Washington    21  12  14   4    56   69   55 Loss in NIT Round 2       
    1976 Washington    14  17   6  12   215  176   50 No Postseason             
    1975 Washington    15  17   9   9   198  186   52 No Postseason             
    1974 Washington    13  18   6  12   248  198   53 No Postseason             
    1973 Washington    13  20   8  10   276  185   56 No Postseason             
    1972 Washington     9  21   5  13   331  267   56 No Postseason             
    1971 Washington    19  13   9   9    67   90   58 Loss in NIT Round 1       
    1970 Washington    19  14  10   8    92  123   56 No Postseason             
    1969 Washington    18  14  10   8   123  123   55 No Postseason             
    1968 Washington    12  19   9   9   269  188   52 No Postseason             
    1967 Washington    14  17   7  11   216  205   51 No Postseason             
    1966 Washington    10  22   5  13   327  248   53 No Postseason             
    1965 Washington    20  12  10   8    65   73   56 Loss in NIT Round 2       
    1964 Washington    19  13   9   9    70   94   53 Loss in NIT Round 1       
    1963 Washington    15  18   4  14   219  234   52 No Postseason             
    1962 Washington    15  15   7  11   179  269   55 No Postseason             
    1961 Washington    15  16   7  11   193  117   56 No Postseason             
    1960 Washington    19  12  10   8    67   90   55 No Postseason             
    1959 Washington    15  15   9   9   168  172   55 No Postseason             
    1958 Washington    11  19   5  13   289  327   54 No Postseason             
    1957 Washington    22   9  11   7    40   46   57 No Postseason             
    1956 Washington    23  10  11   7    71   81   52 Loss in NCAA Round of 32  
    1955 Washington    19  11  10   8    81  140   45 No Postseason             
    1954 Washington    13  18   6  12   248  243   41 No Postseason             
    1953 Washington     8  22   3  15   336  321   42 No Postseason             
    1952 Washington    15  17   9   9   200  154   43 No Postseason             
    1951 Washington    10  21   5  13   318  287   41 No Postseason             
    1950 Washington     7  24   3  15   352  308   40 No Postseason             
    1949 Washington     9  22   5  13   333  303   41 No Postseason             
    1948 Washington     9  22   4  14   331  334   42 No Postseason             
    1947 Washington    14  15   7  11   180  174   43 No Postseason             
    1946 Washington     9  20   5  13   312  223   41 No Postseason             
    1945 Washington     8  23   5  13   341  303   40 No Postseason             
    1944 Washington    13  19   6  12   237  198   39 No Postseason             
    1943 Washington    13  19   5  13   247  220   38 No Postseason             
    1942 Washington     9  22   5  13   321  321   36 No Postseason             
    1941 Washington     9  21   4  14   304  310   35 No Postseason             
    1940 Washington     8  24   3  15   325  258   34 No Postseason             
    1939 Washington     6  26   4  14   347  302   33 No Postseason

So we're going to run the 2032 season unabated, then I'm going to 1) declare their entire roster for the draft and 2) use the open scholarships to grab as many useful transfers possible. Then we'll run the regular season, and then wait until 3) March before making any offers in 2033 on anyone left who might be willing to sign with them. Then 2034 you can see what this team is really made of, essentially.

Young Drachma · 04-14-2023, 09:57 PM

Here are the dudes we're getting rid of after this season. There are already 5 scholarships coming available because of the seniors. In the off-chance anyone useful comes out of that class -- doubtful -- we can keep them around, but given how persistently bad this program has been, I'm not sure we will.

WASHINGTON HUSKIES 2032 ROSTER

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WASHINGTON HUSKIES General

 Player                #  Pos   Yr    Ht   Wt  Sch  Acd   Status             Hometown
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 John Bevis           24   SF   Sr   6-9  229  Yes   33       OK           Auburn, WA
 Mark Davis           12   PG   Sr   6-4  202  Yes   28       OK             Kent, WA
 Todd Hazelton        20   SG   Sr   6-1  204  Yes   22       OK      Oregon City, OR
 Tim Hilpert           0   PG   Sr   5-9  164   No   66       OK      Goslar, Germany
 Marcos Sun            1   SG   Sr   6-1  177  Yes   25       OK            Salem, OR
 Harold Gaona         23   PG   Jr   6-0  184  Yes   93       OK          Prosser, WA
 Kieth Sanders        31   SG   Jr   6-2  184  Yes   64       OK    Friday Harbor, WA
 Garfinkel Polley     15   PF   Jr  6-10  242   No    7       OK          Heywood, UK
 Thomas Tavares       22   SF   So   6-8  226  Yes   24  Unhappy           Tacoma, WA
 Stephan Hiatt        13   PF   So  6-10  260  Yes   35       OK       South Bend, WA
 Michael Latimer      40    C  Fr*   6-9  237  Yes   70       OK         Anderson, CA
 Dominick Veloz       35   PF   Fr   6-7  219  Yes   48       OK        Cathlamet, WA
 Carter Benoit        41    C   Fr  6-10  214  Yes   69       OK             Elma, WA
 Eric Gaynor          33   PG   Fr   6-0  171  Yes   64       OK   Bainbridge Isl, WA
 Michael Felix        14   SF   Fr   6-9  215  Yes   63       OK        Bremerton, WA

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WASHINGTON HUSKIES Career Averages

 Player              Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Todd Hazelton        SG  93  92  28.6  13.7  1.2  3.8  3.3  1.0  0.2  4.0  3.2  -1.1
 Mark Davis           PG  93  30  18.6   6.9  1.2  2.2  1.7  0.9  0.3  1.9  2.2  -1.3
 Harold Gaona         PG  62  33  20.3   8.6  0.6  1.7  2.1  1.3  0.1  1.7  2.5   2.0
 Kieth Sanders        SG  59   0   9.3   3.0  0.8  1.4  0.9  0.2  0.0  1.0  1.1  -0.8
 Garfinkel Polley     PF  32   0  16.5   5.0  1.4  5.5  0.9  0.5  0.2  0.9  1.8  -2.1
 Stephan Hiatt        PF  29   0   5.3   1.9  1.3  1.7  0.2  0.2  0.0  0.3  0.8  -2.1
 Marcos Sun           SG  24   0   4.8   1.6  0.0  0.3  0.5  0.4  0.1  0.5  0.8   0.7
 John Bevis           SF  20   0   2.3   0.3  0.1  0.2  0.2  0.1  0.0  0.1  0.2  -0.4
 Tim Hilpert          PG  18   0   3.3   1.4  0.2  0.3  0.4  0.3  0.0  0.4  0.2  -2.2
 Thomas Tavares       SF   4   0   2.8   0.0  0.3  0.5  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  -4.0
 Michael Latimer       C   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Dominick Veloz       PF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Carter Benoit         C   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Eric Gaynor          PG   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Michael Felix        SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0

They are led by 5th year head coach Buford Perez, who is 73-86 and has an NIT appearance to his credit and was named Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year in 2027 for that. Since then, crickets tho. We'll give him a 6th year, he's a 100 in recruiting and maybe he can be useful. But chances are, the former UCLA assistant in his first head coaching job will get the ax after this transition year.

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 12:41 AM

For this year, I opted to use the significant budget improvements to mostly tap the international recruiting market, with some minor exceptions.

In doing this, I basically am answering my own question on "how quickly can you turn a program around using new players" and it's a bummer we can't move underutilized guys around, but I think what we'll do to try to attempt this with another program this off-season using only transfers is to 1) release the entire class of a program via the draft, giving them 12 scholarships and then 2) temporarily increase their prestige before the transfer period to make them more appealing to potential transfers, which should mostly let you fill the roster of a new team using only portal players.

The nice thing about this we'll have two programs to follow next season and we can see how it worked out for both of them using two different models. We'll pick two more probably and try it again.

For the transfer experiment, we'll use a mid-major program though.

Also, after this season I decided that for at least next season I'm going to turn international recruits off because unless you severely constrain their talent, there's always too many and I like them as an equalizer, but there are just too many generated and I'm curious to see how it benefits American recruiting for at least a season and it's going to coincide with improved talent on the recruiting side generally. So better American recruits will generate for next season, too.

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 01:15 AM

I fired Buford Perez of Washington after a 6-13 start on the season (the way you do this is to take over the head coach and resign him mid-season) and had one of the assistants take over the rest of the year, like real life. I used the best assistant for recruiting, though. For my dynasties, coaches are mostly decoration, though.

The regular season is complete. Washington finishes its season at 8-22 and lost in the 1st round of the Pac-12 tournament.

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2032-33 WASHINGTON HUSKIES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:        52   Record Vs 1-50:      0-6   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:      8-22   Record Vs 51-100:    0-4   RPI Rank:           #265   
Conference Record:  4-14   Record Vs 101-200:  3-11 
Home Record:         5-8   Record Vs 200+:      5-1 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       72.4   4 157  Points       77.7  12 363  Points       -5.3  11 321  
O.Reb        17.6   5 190  O.Reb        15.1   2  46  O.Reb         2.5   2  64  
D.Reb        20.4   9 215  D.Reb        23.8  11 373  D.Reb        -3.5  11 369  
Rebounds     38.0   7 198  Rebounds     38.9  10 241  Rebounds     -1.0  10 236  
Assists      14.0   7 154  Assists      15.4  12 362  Assists      -1.4   9 294  
Steals        8.5   3  39  Steals        7.5  11 337  Steals        1.1   3 105  
Blocks        2.2  12 377  Blocks        5.0   9 314  Blocks       -2.9  12 382  
Turnovers    13.7  11 341  Turnovers    14.8   2  33  Turnovers    -1.1   3 107  
Fouls        23.3  12 387  Fouls        19.1   8 209  Fouls         4.2  12 385  
FG%          .416   9 322  FG%          .491  12 388  FG%         -.075  12 385  
FT%          .595   9 339  FT%          .592   3  14  FT%          .003   4 178  
3P%          .326  11 324  3P%          .378  11 328  3P%         -.051  11 355  
PPS          1.14  10 305  PPS          1.35  12 387  PPS         -.212  12 388  
Adj. FG%     .484  11 276  Adj. FG%     .553  12 386  Adj. FG%    -.068  12 379

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2032-33 WASHINGTON HUSKIES TEAM AVERAGES

 Player             Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Harold Gaona        PG  30  30  31.3  11.6  0.8  2.2  2.7  2.5  0.1  2.4  3.7  -3.4
 Carter Benoit        C  30  30  30.0  11.8  3.7  6.9  1.3  1.0  0.6  1.2  3.2  -4.5
 Mark Davis          SF  30  30  29.2   9.9  2.0  5.2  2.1  1.2  0.6  2.5  3.7  -3.6
 Todd Hazelton       SG  30  30  28.6  15.1  1.3  7.1  2.9  1.1  0.1  3.2  3.4  -3.2
 Stephan Hiatt       PF  27  27  27.2   7.3  5.7  8.1  1.0  0.7  0.2  1.3  3.1  -3.9
 Justin Martins       C  30   3  17.8   4.6  0.6  1.8  0.8  0.2  0.2  0.7  1.7  -1.8
 Thomas Tavares      SF   3   0  14.7   3.3  1.3  4.3  0.3  0.7  0.3  0.7  1.3   0.7
 Kieth Sanders       SG  30   0  13.2   4.5  1.8  2.6  1.0  0.5  0.0  0.7  1.7  -2.4
 Marcos Sun          SG  30   0  12.1   3.9  0.6  1.6  1.4  1.0  0.1  0.9  1.3  -1.4
 Dominick Veloz      PF  28   0   6.5   1.8  1.4  1.8  0.2  0.2  0.2  0.4  0.7  -0.7
 Eric Gaynor         PG  26   0   4.7   1.8  0.2  0.5  0.4  0.2  0.0  0.5  0.7  -1.7
 Michael Latimer      C   8   0   2.9   1.3  0.3  0.3  0.1  0.0  0.3  0.0  0.4   0.9
 John Bevis          SF  24   0   2.8   0.8  0.3  0.6  0.3  0.1  0.0  0.2  0.4   0.3
 Michael Felix       SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 H. Holsmeister      PF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0

As for our transfer program this off-season, I've selected Alaska-Anchorage who along with Fairbanks I brought up to D1 years ago. UAF has made the NCAAs before, but Anchorage has never made the tournament. I'm going to see if we can transfer portal our way to a tournament in 2034 using whatever we can grab. UAA plays in the WAC and had a good season, finishing 19-12 and will play in the CBI tournament as a 13-seed. Not bad for their hodgepodge roster and I'll keep their coach in tow, but wonder what he'll do with potentially better talent.

I will keep the one Alaska native on the roster though. I'm super excited for the Washington recruiting class, which will surely be really good because I drew from so many international players and had such a big budget from which to get them. No idea how they'll perform and we'll still need to hire a head coach for Washington, too.

Oklahoma beat Indiana 84-74 to win the national title. Minnesota & Charlotte were the other two Final Four teams.

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2032 OVERALL AWARDS

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Player of the Year:

SO PG Nemo Karlsson  Wyoming  21.9 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 5.8 APG 2.6 SPG, 0.7 BPG

Freshman of the Year:
FR SF Fulgencio Pardo  BYU  17.4 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 3.4 APG 1.4 SPG, 0.7 BPG

Coach of the Year:
Zachariah Laurent  LSU  31 - 4 (19 - 1) 

All-league 1st Team:
C  JR Boobie Pollard  BYU  14.1 PPG, 16.9 RPG, 2.4 APG, 0.7 SPG, 3.6 BPG
PF JR Lynn Packard  Northwestern  13.4 PPG, 15.8 RPG, 1.8 APG, 0.5 SPG, 4.1 BPG
SF SR George Tipton  Southern Utah  20.3 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 2.5 APG, 2.3 SPG, 0.4 BPG
SG SR Leroy Arnett  Oklahoma  14.8 PPG, 5.8 RPG, 6.7 APG, 1.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG
PG SO Nemo Karlsson  Wyoming  21.9 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 5.8 APG, 2.6 SPG, 0.7 BPG

All-league 2nd Team:
C  JR Miquel Mancilla  Portland  18.3 PPG, 12.9 RPG, 1.7 APG, 1.4 SPG, 2.1 BPG
PF SR Mark Vargas  Maryland  16.5 PPG, 11.4 RPG, 2.6 APG, 1.5 SPG, 2.4 BPG
SF SR Gordon Cardin  Alabama  12.4 PPG, 10.9 RPG, 2.0 APG, 1.5 SPG, 0.2 BPG
SG SO Rodolfo Barnum  Bethune-Cookman  24.9 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 2.2 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.3 BPG
PG JR Scott Evans  LSU  17.8 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 6.3 APG, 3.3 SPG, 0.2 BPG

All-league 3rd Team:
C  SR Josue Figueroa  Jacksonville State  15.5 PPG, 17.4 RPG, 1.8 APG, 0.9 SPG, 2.3 BPG
PF JR Junior Obembi Dion  Providence  19.0 PPG, 15.3 RPG, 2.3 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.9 BPG
SF SR Glenn Canada  UT Rio Grande Valley  18.2 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 2.2 APG, 2.8 SPG, 0.4 BPG
SG SR Assem Mohamed  North Carolina Central  18.8 PPG, 2.9 RPG, 4.8 APG, 1.5 SPG, 0.5 BPG
PG JR Ty Myrick  Alabama  15.1 PPG, 2.3 RPG, 7.2 APG, 2.3 SPG, 0.1 BPG

All-freshman Team:
C  FR Denny Shotwell  CSU Northridge  9.1 PPG, 14.7 RPG, 1.5 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.5 BPG
PF FR Charles South  UMass  14.0 PPG, 10.5 RPG, 1.6 APG, 0.3 SPG, 0.9 BPG
SF FR Fulgencio Pardo  BYU  17.4 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 3.4 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.7 BPG
SG FR Gaetan Roussel  Oklahoma State  19.8 PPG, 2.3 RPG, 2.6 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.4 BPG
PG FR Rolando Paulson  Cleveland State  9.9 PPG, 2.5 RPG, 4.5 APG, 1.8 SPG, 0.2 BPG

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 02:54 AM

Washington hired former Kent State Head Coach Chris Sehic Jr, a young coach with an impressive pedigree. 3-time Conference Coach of the Year and has led two programs to the Sweet 16. Two years ago, he took Kent State to the Elite 8.

If there's a mid-major coach capable of leading the #1 recruiting class in the nation, this guy would seem to be a good fit for the task. Should be fun to see what the team does this year with sky high expectations, but no real legacy of success.

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 Chris Sehic Jr. - Head Coach - Washington
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 Age:             37
 High School:     Vanderbilt Prep High School
 Hometown:        Memphis, TN
 Alma Mater:      Chicago
 
 Current Level:   10
 Career Record:   199 - 189
 
 Recruiting:      99
 Scouting:        24
 Offense:         94
 Defense:         91

 
 Coaching History:
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 Season Team                     Position      W   L  CW  CL  Postseason
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 2032   Kent State               Head Coach   28   7  14   4  Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
 2031   Kent State               Head Coach   17  15  10   8  No Postseason
 2030   Kent State               Head Coach   28   9  16   2  Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
 2029   Kent State               Head Coach   16  16   9   9  No Postseason
 2028   Ohio State               Head Coach    9  23   1  14  No Postseason
 2027   Ohio State               Head Coach   15  17   6   9  No Postseason
 2026   Ohio State               Head Coach   12  19   4  11  No Postseason
 2025   Florida State            Assistant    21  12  12   8  Loss in NCAA Round 1
 2024   Georgia Tech             Head Coach   13  18   7  13  No Postseason
 2023   Georgia Tech             Head Coach   15  15  10  10  No Postseason
 2022   Georgia Tech             Head Coach    9  22   4  16  No Postseason
 2021   Georgia Tech             Head Coach   12  19   6  14  No Postseason
 2020   Georgia Tech             Head Coach   25   9  16   4  Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
 
 Awards & Achievements:
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 Season   Award
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 2032     Conference Coach of the Year (Mid-American Conference)
 2030     Conference Coach of the Year (Mid-American Conference)
 2030     Mid-American Conference Champion
 2020     Conference Coach of the Year (Atlantic Coast Conference)
 2020     Atlantic Coast Conference Champion
 
 Job Movement:
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 Season   Move
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 2033     Hired by Washington (Head Coach)
 2033     Quit job with Kent State
 2029     Hired by Kent State (Head Coach)
 2029     Quit job with Ohio State
 2026     Hired by Ohio State (Head Coach)
 2026     Quit job with Florida State
 2025     Hired by Florida State (Assistant Coach)
 2025     Fired by Georgia Tech
 2020     Hired by Georgia Tech (Head Coach)

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2032 Recruiting Rankings

      # Team                          Conference             Best Player    Rtg  5*  4*  3*  2*  1*
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     1. Washington                        Pac-12         SF Bill Bennett  *****   3   6   2   0   0
     2. Michigan                             B1G     C  Maxmillian Lucas  *****   1   4   1   0   0
     3. Boston College                       ACC    SG Gottfried Bittner   ****   0   5   1   0   0
     4. Wake Forest                          ACC       PF Vidal Guerrero   ****   0   4   2   0   0
     5. Florida State                        ACC         SF Robin Maddux  *****   1   4   0   0   0
     6. Wisconsin                            B1G      SF Manuel Loughlin  *****   2   1   3   0   0
     7. USC                                  B1G         SF Howard Price  *****   1   3   1   0   0
     8. Delaware State                      MEAC         SG Antoine Pell  *****   1   3   0   0   0
     9. Houston                              B12      SG Gerard Delarosa  *****   1   3   1   0   0
    10. Coppin State                        MEAC      SG Quinton Bellamy   ****   0   4   1   0   0
    11. Syracuse                             ACC        SG Brain Despain  *****   3   0   0   0   0
    12. Charlotte                            AAC          SG Jordan Wade  *****   1   2   0   0   0
    13. Iowa State                           B12       SF Riccardo Gross  *****   1   3   0   0   0
    14. Alabama                              SEC         SG Kermit Young  *****   1   2   1   0   0
    15. UTSA                                 AAC    SG Santiago Simoneau  *****   1   2   0   0   0
    16. Maryland                             B1G          SF Jared Ortiz   ****   0   4   1   0   0
    17. Stanford                          Pac-12        PF Craig Lenhart  *****   1   2   1   0   0
    18. Mississippi State                    SEC         PG Danny Taylor   ****   0   3   1   0   0
    19. Xavier                          Big East     SF Courtney Langley   ****   0   3   1   0   0
    20. Oklahoma                             SEC        SF Norman Phipps   ****   0   3   1   0   0
    21. Rice                                 AAC       PG Henry Cornwell   ****   0   3   1   0   0
    22. Georgia Tech                         ACC     SF Oliver Scroggins   ****   0   2   3   0   0
    23. NC State                             ACC        SF William Clark  *****   1   2   0   0   0
    24. Cincinnati                           B12        PG Celio Marquez   ****   0   2   2   0   0
    25. Illinois                             B1G       PG Maxime Gautier   ****   0   3   1   0   0

Meanwhile in Anchorage, our coach left and we picked up a former NC Central Assistant Chris Aikens who was part of 3 Final Four teams and a national title as an assistant, but he's never been a head coach. We'll see how well we can recruit in the portal to get him a roster that has only 3 players, a walk-on, a freshman and a returnee.

The portal players are absolute garbage, so this plan isn't going to work as nicely as I'd hoped, even with the increased time on the clock for players, seems nobody with any real game experience bothered to transfer. Which sucks for our storyline, but perhaps Alaska will uncover some diamonds in the rough? Who knows? (Probably not)

I can't afford not to offer the dudes who are interested in the program because otherwise, tthey'll just be stuck with a roster of walk-ons and I kind of want to see what it's likely to start a roster of guys from elsewhere even if they're bad. Increasing Alaska's prestige doesn't seem to have impacted positively who we can get out of the transfer portal, sadly.

We picked up guys from Clemson, Wyoming, UC Irvine, UAPB and the rest will just be walkons. Two of the transfers are seniors. To make things neat and fun, I made Washington participate in this year's Great Alaska Shootout, which UAA hosts.

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 Player                  #  Pos  Yr    Ht   Wt  Sch  Acd    Status                Hometown
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 James Hereford         23    C  Sr  6-10  260  Yes   38        OK            Edinburg, TX
 Sonny Pope             25   SF  Sr  6-11  251  Yes   60        OK              Walker, LA
 Scott Heaton           12   PG  So   6-1  192   No   35  Redshirt           Fairbanks, AK
 Josh Johnson           55    C  So   6-8  246  Yes   50        OK        Fayetteville, NC
 Donovan Elwood          4   SG  So   6-1  175  Yes   28        OK           Tucumcari, NM
 Adolfo Presnell        51   PG  Fr   6-0  185  Yes   28        OK                Reno, NV
 Jessie Mccune          41   SG  Fr   6-1  189  Yes   54        OK             Seattle, WA
 Alonzo Bertagnolli     21   PF  Fr   6-9  226   No   78        OK            Aosta, Italy
 Tracey Grant            2    C  Fr   6-8  235   No   43        OK   Coolgardie, Australia
 Murray Valero          53   SG  Fr   6-6  207   No   63        OK         Federal Way, WA
 Jarrod Beaver          33   PF  Fr  6-10  220   No   39        OK        Yarmouth, Canada
 Royce Carreon          54   PF  Fr  6-10  213   No   42        OK         Shelbyville, TN
 Laurence Mertz         13   SF  Fr   6-9  224   No   73        OK    Blanc Sablon, Canada
 Lamar Crampton         10   SF  Fr   6-9  230   No   64        OK           Pikeville, NC
 Torsten Eberl          35   PG  Fr   6-5  187   No   49        OK        Gorlitz, Germany

With one and done's back on, this Washington class probably only has one year together realistically before a bunch of them will leave. But I'm not sure how good these dudes really are. Anything besides a tournament appearance for the #1 recruiting class in the country that I spent a 500k recruiting budget to score would be a massive disappointment, whereas Alaska will likely struggle to repeat last year's post-season appearance. Without international recruits in this year's pool, I'm not sure who they'll recruit, but I will recruit for them like I did for Washington last year, but I will turn CPU on for everything in Washington's case.

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WASHINGTON HUSKIES General

 Player                  #  Pos  Yr    Ht   Wt  Sch  Acd  Status                Hometown
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 Bill Bennett           41   SF  Fr   6-7  248  Yes   48      OK    Fremantle, Australia
 Rodion Korolev         50   PG  Fr   6-1  186  Yes   47      OK           Sarov, Russia
 Cory Olojakpoke        45   PG  Fr   6-2  179  Yes   24      OK          Lagos, Nigeria
 Carl Warren             0   SF  Fr   6-9  210  Yes   65      OK             Redmond, WA
 Ajay Harper-Baker      23   SF  Fr   6-9  250  Yes   63      OK             Shirley, UK
 Marcel Snelling        54   SG  Jr   6-1  174  Yes   42      OK     Canberra, Australia
 Rodger Gilligan        35   PF  Fr   6-8  242   No   31      OK               Boone, NC
 Kerry Porter           33   SF  Fr   6-8  227  Yes   55      OK     Maitland, Australia
 Pepe Hidalgo            1    C  Fr   7-0  212   No   61      OK   Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
 Caleb Birdwell         11   PF  Fr   6-9  232   No   30      OK           Ridgewood, NY
 Rodrigo Dillon          2   SG  Jr   6-1  176  Yes   70      OK       Albany, Australia
 Paul Kocher             3    C  Fr  6-10  223   No   64      OK              Auburn, WA
 Yuri Varlamov          31    C  Fr   7-0  258  Yes   40      OK      Neftekamsk, Russia
 Wade Flannery          14   SG  Fr   6-3  187  Yes   50      OK           Sammamish, WA
 Christian Amschler      4   PG  Fr   6-4  194  Yes   65      OK       Saalfeld, Germany

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 03:46 AM

UAA's season was as bad as you'd expect with a team full of mostly walk-ons and little used transfers.

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ALASKA ANCHORAGE SEAWOLVES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:        38   Record Vs 1-50:      0-2   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:      3-30   Record Vs 51-100:    0-2   RPI Rank:           #383   
Conference Record:  2-12   Record Vs 101-200:  0-13 
Home Record:        0-16   Record Vs 200+:     3-13 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       58.3  12 380  Points       72.2  11 205  Points      -13.9  13 386  
O.Reb        14.7  13 356  O.Reb        17.1  11 196  O.Reb        -2.4  13 332  
D.Reb        19.4   8 273  D.Reb        21.8  12 331  D.Reb        -2.4  13 344  
Rebounds     34.1  11 348  Rebounds     38.9  11 275  Rebounds     -4.8  13 351  
Assists       9.0  13 385  Assists      14.0  13 286  Assists      -5.0  13 388  
Steals        3.5  12 386  Steals        7.2   8 160  Steals       -3.7  13 380  
Blocks        4.0   4 192  Blocks        3.5   6  78  Blocks        0.4   5 135  
Turnovers    16.6   8  99  Turnovers    11.8  13 388  Turnovers     4.9  12 376  
Fouls        18.4   4  74  Fouls        16.2  13 387  Fouls         2.3  11 362  
FG%          .389  13 386  FG%          .452   9 281  FG%         -.063  12 379  
FT%          .580  11 373  FT%          .600   1  24  FT%         -.021   7 283  
3P%          .325  11 336  3P%          .380  13 330  3P%         -.055  12 357  
PPS          1.08  13 385  PPS          1.21   6 188  PPS         -.132  13 365  
Adj. FG%     .471  12 350  Adj. FG%     .521  11 295  Adj. FG%    -.049  12 358

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ALASKA ANCHORAGE SEAWOLVES Averages

 Player             Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb   Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls    +/-
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 Scott Heaton        PG  33  33  30.3  16.6  1.2   2.3  1.5  0.5  0.2  4.0  3.0  -10.3
 Adolfo Presnell     SG  31  31  30.5   9.0  1.3   3.4  2.0  0.8  0.2  2.6  2.8  -10.8
 Donovan Elwood      SG  33   0  15.5   8.0  0.7   1.4  0.6  0.2  0.0  1.5  1.6   -4.8
 Josh Johnson        PF  33  33  29.8   5.9  4.8   7.6  1.0  0.5  1.9  1.1  2.0  -13.3
 James Hereford       C  28  28  30.3   5.5  3.3  10.0  1.0  0.4  0.9  1.8  2.5  -12.3
 Sonny Pope          SF  33   0  16.5   4.6  2.2   3.2  0.7  0.2  0.4  1.1  1.8   -3.5
 Murray Valero       SF  33  33  24.4   4.2  0.6   2.1  0.8  0.5  0.3  2.7  2.3  -12.2
 Jessie Mccune       PG  32   2   9.1   2.5  0.2   0.8  0.6  0.2  0.0  1.3  1.3   -1.8
 Tracey Grant        PF  33   5  16.8   2.4  1.0   5.0  0.9  0.3  0.2  0.8  1.3   -3.2
 Laurence Mertz      SF  29   0   3.8   1.2  0.1   0.2  0.2  0.1  0.0  0.3  0.4    0.3

(Heaton is the Alaska native and a walk-on, strangely.)

Washington doubled it's win total from last year, which counts as success, but missed both the CBI and NIT brackets.

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Current Performance
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Team Prestige:        53   Record Vs 1-50:      2-8   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:     17-15   Record Vs 51-100:    3-1   RPI Rank:           #107   
Conference Record:  7-11   Record Vs 101-200:   4-6 
Home Record:         5-6   Record Vs 200+:      8-0 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       76.3   5  87  Points       77.2  10 344  Points       -0.9   8 203  
O.Reb        16.9   9 231  O.Reb        17.0   9 188  O.Reb        -0.1   7 199  
D.Reb        20.0   9 212  D.Reb        19.8   4 152  D.Reb         0.2   8 175  
Rebounds     36.9  10 231  Rebounds     36.8   8 165  Rebounds      0.1   6 190  
Assists      16.1   2  42  Assists      15.5  12 374  Assists       0.6   6 142  
Steals        6.7   7 239  Steals        8.2  11 314  Steals       -1.5  11 289  
Blocks        2.9  10 304  Blocks        4.7   9 298  Blocks       -1.8  11 351  
Turnovers    17.9   6 232  Turnovers    16.5   9 251  Turnovers     1.4  10 272  
Fouls        17.8   2  36  Fouls        20.8   4  52  Fouls        -2.9   2  17  
FG%          .449   5 128  FG%          .470  12 366  FG%         -.021  10 284  
FT%          .647   5 129  FT%          .615   3  75  FT%          .032   4  78  
3P%          .368   6 135  3P%          .366   8 250  3P%          .002   7 182  
PPS          1.29   4  28  PPS          1.24   8 292  PPS          .048   6 105  
Adj. FG%     .534   3  49  Adj. FG%     .538  12 362  Adj. FG%    -.003   7 193

We'll see how many of these guys come back and whether they can build on the rebuild.

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 Player                Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb   Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Ajay Harper-Baker      PF  32  31  29.8  15.1  2.3   4.3  1.3  0.8  0.4  2.6  2.5  -0.7
 Marcel Snelling        SG  32  32  25.8  13.6  1.2   2.2  1.7  0.9  0.2  2.2  2.2  -1.5
 Bill Bennett           SF  32  32  32.5  11.2  6.7  14.1  1.8  1.9  0.4  2.5  2.3  -0.5
 Rodrigo Dillon         PG  32  32  27.9  10.2  1.1   1.8  4.9  0.6  0.2  3.9  2.4   0.1
 Wade Flannery          SG  32   0  12.4   6.1  0.6   2.1  0.9  0.7  0.2  1.5  1.3   0.7
 Christian Amschler     PG  32   0  19.5   6.1  0.5   1.5  3.0  0.6  0.2  2.3  2.2  -1.9
 Yuri Varlamov           C  32  32  29.6   5.7  3.1   7.0  1.3  0.5  1.0  1.4  2.6   0.2
 Pepe Hidalgo            C  32   1  11.0   4.2  0.5   1.5  0.3  0.2  0.2  0.7  1.3  -0.9
 Kerry Porter           SF  31   0   5.1   2.3  0.2   0.6  0.4  0.1  0.1  0.5  0.7  -0.4
 Rodion Korolev         PG  31   0   4.5   1.2  0.2   0.6  0.4  0.4  0.0  0.4  0.3  -1.1
 Rodger Gilligan        PF  26   0   3.1   0.8  0.5   1.3  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.2  0.2   0.0
 Cory Olojakpoke        PG   2   0   1.5   0.0  0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Carl Warren            SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Paul Kocher             C   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Caleb Birdwell         PF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 03:54 AM

My UAA recruiting haul wasn't bad and good for 39th in the country. I aimed for a lot of Mr. Basketball-type guys in underrecruited states and when there were guys who didn't have more than a school or two interested, I would throw the house at them recruiting-wise to keep them interested. It didn't always work, but it worked well enough for me to recruit a pretty diverse class nationally.

The team is extremely undersized and we'll have to use the trash transfer market to get some experience and size. Once I've done that, I'm going to auto-sim the season and see how the team does (and we'll check in on Washington) and then that'll be the end of the road for this dynasty.

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 Player               #  Pos  Yr    Ht   Wt  Sch  Acd  Status           Hometown
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 Steve Cotton        44   PF  Fr  6-11  200  Yes   23      OK     Cumberland, MD
 Ellis Strawn         4   PG  Fr   6-1  178  Yes   25      OK          Melba, ID
 Paul Yingling       14   PG  Fr   6-7  189  Yes   25      OK      Box Elder, SD
 Owen Croteau        40   SF  Fr   6-9  216  Yes    4      OK        Tujunga, CA
 Scott Heaton        12   PG  Jr   6-1  192   No   35      OK      Fairbanks, AK
 Joe Parsons          5   SG  Fr   6-5  194  Yes   27      OK      Hillsboro, ND
 Damien Williams      3   PG  Fr   6-0  171  Yes   56      OK   Apple Valley, CA
 Carlton Hoggard      1   SF  Fr   6-9  238  Yes   33      OK       Big Lake, AK
 Ryan Taylor         22   SG  Fr   6-4  198  Yes   25      OK       Soldotna, AK

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 04:35 AM

Washington finished 18-13 (11-7 in the Pac-12) but did not make a post-season tourney. UAA finished 4-25 (1-13) which is awful, but...I guess it's realistic.

On the bright side, the whole purpose of this dynasty was to figure out to induce more transfers with actual playing time -- perhaps to even get some good transfers once in a while -- and I figured it out based on research I'd done years ago, which involves increasing Pressbreak/Press/Trap stamina to be higher, so teams use bigger rotations.

This coupled with increasing the number of quarterseconds in a game will give more guys minutes to go around, so when they transfer more of them will have played. Not sure if it'll yield better transfers, yet.

Ancedotally, it did not yield me better transfer prospects. I'll keep tinkering, but I just think it's tough to pull off without a lot of intervention and probably turning off early leavers so that more guys are playing and there's less turnover.

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 04:22 PM

BETTER TRANSFERS

Right now, my better transfers plan involves the following tricks:
1) artificially increase the length of games to get more usage out of guys
2) keep scoring down so #1 doesn't create insane scoring (i'm fine with NBA scores, not good with anything beyond that)
3) No early leavers, everyone stays 4 years unless I send them out early manually
4) Turn on injuries high & turn on academic suspensions so teams will use more players
5) Increase the rate of fouls so more dudes foul out to get more guys into games
6) Increase the fatigue rate on press and traps so more dudes are tired and more guys get to potentially start in games, too.

This coupled with my standard FBCB.ini tweaks to shot rate/drive rate, etc. has at least made it so everyone in the lineup averages a few minutes even in garbage time. Teams still don't have flexible rotations and the same dudes will pretty much start all year without increasing injuries and suspensions (the latter of which I don't like because it seems arbitrary) but I'm still tinkering to see whether it makes a difference or not.

My next thing to consider -- I haven't done this year -- is seeing if I can recreate the "COVID" bonus years by giving dudes a 5th year, the game will give you a 5th year on a roster but only because you used your redshirt so you only play 4 years. I'm curious to see whether it'll let someone generate a 5th year of stats or if it'll crash.

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 05:04 PM

I have solved the mystery of the 5th year player, you just have to reclassify them AND have a scholarship available. Also, while no players who were Top 100 recruits will transfer, it seems that increasing fringe playing time for bench guys induces way more transfers (coupled with not letting anyone leave early) because I'm seeing dudes who actually played and were good recruits for major programs in the portal whereas before it was universally only guys who were barely getting minutes or redshirts who never saw the court.

Those guys are still in there but with the right amount of scholarships, you could probably cobble together a solid class in this type of pool.

So that'll be my next attempt (it's too late to do it now) is seeing how good a class I can get from castaways in this new portal era, and whether that team can turn a program around and/or help a program take the next step.

While there's no way to replicate the college basketball free agency era that exists now, you can reclassify guys if you have a scholarship to keep them around beyond 4 years. That coupled with increased usage rate so that more guys are getting into rotations & forced redshirts, along with no early leavers should make it so there's a lot more player movement (of actually talented players) on clubs relative to what the game does by default.

I basically envision a world where I can identify some "grad transfer" type dudes on middling teams where I'd reset their eligibility two seasons, take over their team and redshirt them for a year so they're angry that they aren't playing, then hopefully they'll transfer. It's a lot of labor, but I think it's the only real way to manufacture better elite transfers.

Izulde · 04-15-2023, 07:07 PM

Interesting results. And yes, the transfer market being terrible is one of the annoying things about the engine, along with the defensive proficiency set reset and the odd late-game sub pattern logic I sometimes see from the AI

Young Drachma · 04-15-2023, 08:39 PM

Seems the only way to induce a transfer is to keep a guy out of the lineup long enough for him to be unhappy, then he'll leave but it might take you two years to get him to transfer because I wasn't successfully able to get anyone I'd redshirted to actually get angry enough to leave, meaning that it might be more powerful to keep him eligible and burn a year not playing him (then reset that year) than going through the motions of redshirting, since some guys are actually fine with being redshirted for a season.

Seems for sure you could induce transfers if you did this same tactic for two years, but doing it for a lot of players is highly tedious because you have to make sure the game doesn't put them back in the lineup (so you can't fast-sim, you have to sim ahead but keep depth chart on user)

Still, I guess if I played slowly and wanted to do this for a few dozen guys, you'd be able to increase the pool of transfer talent this way, because it seems this is the key way to get guys to leave and because most good players will always eventually get playing time (or enough to satisfy them) then nobody ever leaves.

I just looked at my latest transfer pool and this time, it was only redshirts that were in the pool, probably a side effect of the lack of scholarships thanks to no early leavers and the fact I'd turned down injuries at one point last year.

I do think there's a way to game this manually though and I think I've figured out the code up there, as I've seen decent guys transfer before in past iterations of this same game, but in different saves where I made the talent pool ratings so neutral, that there was so much talent that inevitably you would see guys leave because they couldn't get onto the court.

I don't love doing it that way because it's hard to differentiate between players except using stats and it kind of ruins the NBA pool, but...it's kind of the only other way to juice things so that there's more movement and even that way takes some time before it works.

Young Drachma · 04-17-2023, 12:13 AM

I've decided to test out the induce transfers theory by taking over a few programs during the regular season, controlling the depth chart, turning on refuse redshirts (so guys don't have the option of being happy about it) and taking away starting time from dudes for a whole season. I'll be curious how many I can frustrate into transferring, I'm initially going to target younger players so they have more eligibility, but I'll also pick a few juniors and would be seniors (so I can bring them back a year as "graduate transfers) and see how many I can induce into transferring.

If the experiment works, it'll be tedious to do it often and there'll be no way to be able to control how to get a guy to transfer somewhere you want him to go, but just getting them into the portal would be fun for storyline purposes.

If it doesn't work, I'll just give up because it's been broken this long, what's the big deal.

Young Drachma · 04-17-2023, 01:08 AM

So it basically works. There are a few exceptions, but generally speaking in the cases where I benched a guy who expected to start for the entire season, all but two of them ended up leaving the schools where I benched them and deciding to transfer. It makes sense given how 1+1 the game is that it'd be something pretty simple to induce transfers. Obviously, I won't be able to influence where they end up going, but just having talented guys in the pool would really make the transfer portal a lot more interesting than it is right now.

I could envision a world where playing slowly you could induce dozens of guys to transfer, coupling that with a team where I get rid of all of their players and free up lots of scholarships, I might be able to essentially do a portal-like dynasty where we take a bunch of dudes from elsewhere and try to free agent your way to a NCAA tournament run.

It'd take 1-2 seasons of simming to make it plausible, but at least I have a way to identify the guys I want to transfer and can at least try to make a run for them in the portal and there's enough talent, it'd be doable to snag enough to make a realistic-ish run.

So that's what I'm going to attempt going into this current season is to identify like 25-30 guys if possible and sit them, it's not that tedious once I find the guys, I just take over as their coach, control depth charts manually and take them out of the lineup then you can sim through the entire season in one fell swoop.

You do need to make sure nobody can leave early from college to pull this off though, only because otherwise your potential transfers might declare for the draft before you're able to snag them as transfers.

The easiest way to do this as a one-off is to create a new program at the start of a new season, you'll have a clean roster and can pick off any transfers you want right when they're available and then you can see how the team performs right from the outset. I don't wanna add a million new programs, but as a one-off experiment it might be interesting.

Young Drachma · 04-18-2023, 12:16 AM

So I guess I can use this upcoming season (2039-40) to do some scouting of the guys who I want to ID as potential transfer targets. Fresh off a year where I got some pretty fun guys to transfer from their programs, it'd be cool to be able to superteam my way into a tournament somewhere.

I know I said the easiest way to free up schollies is starting a new program, but I'd rather just take over a moribund program and release everybody, get them a good coach and see if we can go on a crazy tournament run that turns the program around.

UCLA last won a title in 2003, so I'm going to pick them as our target school for this transfer experiment.

Young Drachma · 04-18-2023, 01:57 AM

The experiment didn't work as well this time, I didn't find many of the guys I benched in the transfer pool. What has worked this time was increasing the talent in-game & turned off early leaving so that major programs end up with a surplus of talent that will leave frustrated for not getting enough run early in their careers.

This did make the pool interesting this time in ways that it wasn't before, but almost universally guys only leave because of lack of playing time, you can't seem to induce a star player to transfer unless you sit them for a year after they were good and even that hasn't really worked yet.

Also, you're just not going to convince most of the stars to come play for you a la the portal, you might only get a handful even if you have a full roster of scholarships available which makes it harder to replicate things.

So the verdict is, you can't really rig the game to modestly simulate the portal, which we pretty much knew. Needless to say, higher prestige really does increase your likelihood of getting recruits but it doesn't get you all the best ones.

Young Drachma · 05-01-2023, 03:43 PM

I think my new accessory to this project is doing a dynasty where I start with a new program from scratch and every year we fill the roster entirely from transfers and walk-ons.

Because I want the program to be potentially successful, I'm going to max out their prestige at the start of the transfer period, so they're able to get access to almost anybody, but not everyone signs so it's kind of moot.

I think after 5-10 years, we'll be able to look back and see how successful we were with each class. I'm not going to promise I won't hold my favorite guys back if we ever get into a run where we have guys I like, but...the general premise will/should remain the same annual with the same program over the course of the decade.

04-15-2023, 12:41 AM	#5
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	For this year, I opted to use the significant budget improvements to mostly tap the international recruiting market, with some minor exceptions. In doing this, I basically am answering my own question on "how quickly can you turn a program around using new players" and it's a bummer we can't move underutilized guys around, but I think what we'll do to try to attempt this with another program this off-season using only transfers is to 1) release the entire class of a program via the draft, giving them 12 scholarships and then 2) temporarily increase their prestige before the transfer period to make them more appealing to potential transfers, which should mostly let you fill the roster of a new team using only portal players. The nice thing about this we'll have two programs to follow next season and we can see how it worked out for both of them using two different models. We'll pick two more probably and try it again. For the transfer experiment, we'll use a mid-major program though. Also, after this season I decided that for at least next season I'm going to turn international recruits off because unless you severely constrain their talent, there's always too many and I like them as an equalizer, but there are just too many generated and I'm curious to see how it benefits American recruiting for at least a season and it's going to coincide with improved talent on the recruiting side generally. So better American recruits will generate for next season, too. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-15-2023 at 12:50 AM.

04-15-2023, 03:54 AM	#9
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	My UAA recruiting haul wasn't bad and good for 39th in the country. I aimed for a lot of Mr. Basketball-type guys in underrecruited states and when there were guys who didn't have more than a school or two interested, I would throw the house at them recruiting-wise to keep them interested. It didn't always work, but it worked well enough for me to recruit a pretty diverse class nationally. The team is extremely undersized and we'll have to use the trash transfer market to get some experience and size. Once I've done that, I'm going to auto-sim the season and see how the team does (and we'll check in on Washington) and then that'll be the end of the road for this dynasty. Code: ALASKA ANCHORAGE SEAWOLVES General Player # Pos Yr Ht Wt Sch Acd Status Hometown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Cotton 44 PF Fr 6-11 200 Yes 23 OK Cumberland, MD Ellis Strawn 4 PG Fr 6-1 178 Yes 25 OK Melba, ID Paul Yingling 14 PG Fr 6-7 189 Yes 25 OK Box Elder, SD Owen Croteau 40 SF Fr 6-9 216 Yes 4 OK Tujunga, CA Scott Heaton 12 PG Jr 6-1 192 No 35 OK Fairbanks, AK Joe Parsons 5 SG Fr 6-5 194 Yes 27 OK Hillsboro, ND Damien Williams 3 PG Fr 6-0 171 Yes 56 OK Apple Valley, CA Carlton Hoggard 1 SF Fr 6-9 238 Yes 33 OK Big Lake, AK Ryan Taylor 22 SG Fr 6-4 198 Yes 25 OK Soldotna, AK Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-15-2023 at 03:55 AM.

04-15-2023, 05:04 PM	#12
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I have solved the mystery of the 5th year player, you just have to reclassify them AND have a scholarship available. Also, while no players who were Top 100 recruits will transfer, it seems that increasing fringe playing time for bench guys induces way more transfers (coupled with not letting anyone leave early) because I'm seeing dudes who actually played and were good recruits for major programs in the portal whereas before it was universally only guys who were barely getting minutes or redshirts who never saw the court. Those guys are still in there but with the right amount of scholarships, you could probably cobble together a solid class in this type of pool. So that'll be my next attempt (it's too late to do it now) is seeing how good a class I can get from castaways in this new portal era, and whether that team can turn a program around and/or help a program take the next step. While there's no way to replicate the college basketball free agency era that exists now, you can reclassify guys if you have a scholarship to keep them around beyond 4 years. That coupled with increased usage rate so that more guys are getting into rotations & forced redshirts, along with no early leavers should make it so there's a lot more player movement (of actually talented players) on clubs relative to what the game does by default. I basically envision a world where I can identify some "grad transfer" type dudes on middling teams where I'd reset their eligibility two seasons, take over their team and redshirt them for a year so they're angry that they aren't playing, then hopefully they'll transfer. It's a lot of labor, but I think it's the only real way to manufacture better elite transfers. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-15-2023 at 07:03 PM.

04-15-2023, 07:07 PM	#13
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	Interesting results. And yes, the transfer market being terrible is one of the annoying things about the engine, along with the defensive proficiency set reset and the odd late-game sub pattern logic I sometimes see from the AI __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

04-17-2023, 01:08 AM	#16
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	So it basically works. There are a few exceptions, but generally speaking in the cases where I benched a guy who expected to start for the entire season, all but two of them ended up leaving the schools where I benched them and deciding to transfer. It makes sense given how 1+1 the game is that it'd be something pretty simple to induce transfers. Obviously, I won't be able to influence where they end up going, but just having talented guys in the pool would really make the transfer portal a lot more interesting than it is right now. I could envision a world where playing slowly you could induce dozens of guys to transfer, coupling that with a team where I get rid of all of their players and free up lots of scholarships, I might be able to essentially do a portal-like dynasty where we take a bunch of dudes from elsewhere and try to free agent your way to a NCAA tournament run. It'd take 1-2 seasons of simming to make it plausible, but at least I have a way to identify the guys I want to transfer and can at least try to make a run for them in the portal and there's enough talent, it'd be doable to snag enough to make a realistic-ish run. So that's what I'm going to attempt going into this current season is to identify like 25-30 guys if possible and sit them, it's not that tedious once I find the guys, I just take over as their coach, control depth charts manually and take them out of the lineup then you can sim through the entire season in one fell swoop. You do need to make sure nobody can leave early from college to pull this off though, only because otherwise your potential transfers might declare for the draft before you're able to snag them as transfers. The easiest way to do this as a one-off is to create a new program at the start of a new season, you'll have a clean roster and can pick off any transfers you want right when they're available and then you can see how the team performs right from the outset. I don't wanna add a million new programs, but as a one-off experiment it might be interesting. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-17-2023 at 01:47 AM.

04-15-2023, 04:35 AM	#10
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Washington finished 18-13 (11-7 in the Pac-12) but did not make a post-season tourney. UAA finished 4-25 (1-13) which is awful, but...I guess it's realistic. On the bright side, the whole purpose of this dynasty was to figure out to induce more transfers with actual playing time -- perhaps to even get some good transfers once in a while -- and I figured it out based on research I'd done years ago, which involves increasing Pressbreak/Press/Trap stamina to be higher, so teams use bigger rotations. This coupled with increasing the number of quarterseconds in a game will give more guys minutes to go around, so when they transfer more of them will have played. Not sure if it'll yield better transfers, yet. Ancedotally, it did not yield me better transfer prospects. I'll keep tinkering, but I just think it's tough to pull off without a lot of intervention and probably turning off early leavers so that more guys are playing and there's less turnover. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-15-2023 at 04:40 AM.

04-15-2023, 04:22 PM	#11
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	BETTER TRANSFERS Right now, my better transfers plan involves the following tricks: 1) artificially increase the length of games to get more usage out of guys 2) keep scoring down so #1 doesn't create insane scoring (i'm fine with NBA scores, not good with anything beyond that) 3) No early leavers, everyone stays 4 years unless I send them out early manually 4) Turn on injuries high & turn on academic suspensions so teams will use more players 5) Increase the rate of fouls so more dudes foul out to get more guys into games 6) Increase the fatigue rate on press and traps so more dudes are tired and more guys get to potentially start in games, too. This coupled with my standard FBCB.ini tweaks to shot rate/drive rate, etc. has at least made it so everyone in the lineup averages a few minutes even in garbage time. Teams still don't have flexible rotations and the same dudes will pretty much start all year without increasing injuries and suspensions (the latter of which I don't like because it seems arbitrary) but I'm still tinkering to see whether it makes a difference or not. My next thing to consider -- I haven't done this year -- is seeing if I can recreate the "COVID" bonus years by giving dudes a 5th year, the game will give you a 5th year on a roster but only because you used your redshirt so you only play 4 years. I'm curious to see whether it'll let someone generate a 5th year of stats or if it'll crash.

04-15-2023, 08:39 PM	#14
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Seems the only way to induce a transfer is to keep a guy out of the lineup long enough for him to be unhappy, then he'll leave but it might take you two years to get him to transfer because I wasn't successfully able to get anyone I'd redshirted to actually get angry enough to leave, meaning that it might be more powerful to keep him eligible and burn a year not playing him (then reset that year) than going through the motions of redshirting, since some guys are actually fine with being redshirted for a season. Seems for sure you could induce transfers if you did this same tactic for two years, but doing it for a lot of players is highly tedious because you have to make sure the game doesn't put them back in the lineup (so you can't fast-sim, you have to sim ahead but keep depth chart on user) Still, I guess if I played slowly and wanted to do this for a few dozen guys, you'd be able to increase the pool of transfer talent this way, because it seems this is the key way to get guys to leave and because most good players will always eventually get playing time (or enough to satisfy them) then nobody ever leaves. I just looked at my latest transfer pool and this time, it was only redshirts that were in the pool, probably a side effect of the lack of scholarships thanks to no early leavers and the fact I'd turned down injuries at one point last year. I do think there's a way to game this manually though and I think I've figured out the code up there, as I've seen decent guys transfer before in past iterations of this same game, but in different saves where I made the talent pool ratings so neutral, that there was so much talent that inevitably you would see guys leave because they couldn't get onto the court. I don't love doing it that way because it's hard to differentiate between players except using stats and it kind of ruins the NBA pool, but...it's kind of the only other way to juice things so that there's more movement and even that way takes some time before it works.

04-17-2023, 12:13 AM	#15
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I've decided to test out the induce transfers theory by taking over a few programs during the regular season, controlling the depth chart, turning on refuse redshirts (so guys don't have the option of being happy about it) and taking away starting time from dudes for a whole season. I'll be curious how many I can frustrate into transferring, I'm initially going to target younger players so they have more eligibility, but I'll also pick a few juniors and would be seniors (so I can bring them back a year as "graduate transfers) and see how many I can induce into transferring. If the experiment works, it'll be tedious to do it often and there'll be no way to be able to control how to get a guy to transfer somewhere you want him to go, but just getting them into the portal would be fun for storyline purposes. If it doesn't work, I'll just give up because it's been broken this long, what's the big deal.

04-18-2023, 12:16 AM	#17
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	So I guess I can use this upcoming season (2039-40) to do some scouting of the guys who I want to ID as potential transfer targets. Fresh off a year where I got some pretty fun guys to transfer from their programs, it'd be cool to be able to superteam my way into a tournament somewhere. I know I said the easiest way to free up schollies is starting a new program, but I'd rather just take over a moribund program and release everybody, get them a good coach and see if we can go on a crazy tournament run that turns the program around. UCLA last won a title in 2003, so I'm going to pick them as our target school for this transfer experiment.

04-18-2023, 01:57 AM	#18
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	The experiment didn't work as well this time, I didn't find many of the guys I benched in the transfer pool. What has worked this time was increasing the talent in-game & turned off early leaving so that major programs end up with a surplus of talent that will leave frustrated for not getting enough run early in their careers. This did make the pool interesting this time in ways that it wasn't before, but almost universally guys only leave because of lack of playing time, you can't seem to induce a star player to transfer unless you sit them for a year after they were good and even that hasn't really worked yet. Also, you're just not going to convince most of the stars to come play for you a la the portal, you might only get a handful even if you have a full roster of scholarships available which makes it harder to replicate things. So the verdict is, you can't really rig the game to modestly simulate the portal, which we pretty much knew. Needless to say, higher prestige really does increase your likelihood of getting recruits but it doesn't get you all the best ones. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-18-2023 at 02:03 AM.

05-01-2023, 03:43 PM	#19
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I think my new accessory to this project is doing a dynasty where I start with a new program from scratch and every year we fill the roster entirely from transfers and walk-ons. Because I want the program to be potentially successful, I'm going to max out their prestige at the start of the transfer period, so they're able to get access to almost anybody, but not everyone signs so it's kind of moot. I think after 5-10 years, we'll be able to look back and see how successful we were with each class. I'm not going to promise I won't hold my favorite guys back if we ever get into a run where we have guys I like, but...the general premise will/should remain the same annual with the same program over the course of the decade.

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