Recruiting Strategy Guide

[boilerfan1509]

Quote: Originally Posted by rlwjr

Trying to make sure I understand this...... Your # of available scholarships is always 25? So you will always want to populate your recruit board with 25-35 offers? Is that correct? Or will it always be # of available scholarships (25?) + 3, which is 28? This is a great approach, but how you arrive at your "OFFERS" number is as clear as mud to me.......

I apologize. I will try to clarify. You can only have 70 players on your team (or in other words provide 70 total scholarships). Even though you offer 25....if you have 65 returning players.......you will not be able to provide them all.

Available scholarships are the # of players short of 70 you will be after the season (when all the seniors graduate, juniors leave early).

So Example:

68 total players on team - 2 scholarships not being used
7 seniors - 7 scholarships become available when season is over
2 stud juniors that will leave (you will know when season is over) - 2 more unused scholarships

This leaves you to be able to add (2+7+2 = 11) more players (or available "unused" scholarships). Anymore and you will have to cut someone (either already on roster or one of the recruits). So the suggestion is to take the available scholarships (11 in this case) and add 3 (for extra because you wont get everyone you initially go after, you may have some recruit busts, or you can cut someone weak on your team). So you should not have more than 14 (11+3 extra) players on your board. Because going anymore and you are going after guys that you wont be able to sign. and (as recommended here also) dont go OVER 15 (even if you have 17 seniors leaving). Keep focused on those recruits.

I hope this helped. If not let me know and i can try again.

[rlwjr]

Makes perfect sense now Boilerfan...... Was thinking about it on the way home from work, and I was thinking you meant what you just explained. So, we are on the same page now. Thanks!

[Tonka]

This guide should be stickied...really nice work!

[tnottke]

I have not been able to find the "special interest" recruits which have the purple/pink diamond. What conditions need to happen in order to find them? I had my recruiting list full and did a search of every single prospect in my online league and didn't find anything. Are they available for every team?

[rlwjr]

Sometimes, when you go to the screen where you make your pitches, the picture of the recruit will have what looks like an unlocked lock in it. It's located in the same place the "X2" shows up when you get double points. Any idea what that unlocked lock means?

[msu2k]

Quote: Originally Posted by tnottke

I have not been able to find the "special interest" recruits which have the purple/pink diamond. What conditions need to happen in order to find them? I had my recruiting list full and did a search of every single prospect in my online league and didn't find anything. Are they available for every team?

I paid the $2 or whatever for the Recruiting Advisor and he mentions a few of these players each season. Unfortunately I haven't been able to sign one yet.

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by boilerfan1509

I apologize. I will try to clarify. You can only have 70 players on your team (or in other words provide 70 total scholarships). Even though you offer 25....if you have 65 returning players.......you will not be able to provide them all. Available scholarships are the # of players short of 70 you will be after the season (when all the seniors graduate, juniors leave early). So Example: 68 total players on team - 2 scholarships not being used 7 seniors - 7 scholarships become available when season is over 2 stud juniors that will leave (you will know when season is over) - 2 more unused scholarships This leaves you to be able to add (2+7+2 = 11) more players (or available "unused" scholarships). Anymore and you will have to cut someone (either already on roster or one of the recruits). So the suggestion is to take the available scholarships (11 in this case) and add 3 (for extra because you wont get everyone you initially go after, you may have some recruit busts, or you can cut someone weak on your team). So you should not have more than 14 (11+3 extra) players on your board. Because going anymore and you are going after guys that you wont be able to sign. and (as recommended here also) dont go OVER 15 (even if you have 17 seniors leaving). Keep focused on those recruits. I hope this helped. If not let me know and i can try again.

So do you target only 15? or what?

[mikekim21]

Quote: Originally Posted by rlwjr

Sometimes, when you go to the screen where you make your pitches, the picture of the recruit will have what looks like an unlocked lock in it. It's located in the same place the "X2" shows up when you get double points. Any idea what that unlocked lock means?

I think the lock means one of the topics has already been "unlocked." So if its the first conversation you've had with that player and the lock is there, then there will already be a pitch unlocked