Scouting Tool for Madden 17 CFM

[Old Man Nathy]

Quote: Originally Posted by infinite76

If we do a value copy from sheet to sheet, we should be ok, right?

Yep


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[Old Man Nathy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Yazan Gable

I didn't get around to copying all the numbers down (I do love this scouting tool thing you've made, great work!,) but I do have one anomaly to share:

By all rights that TE should be pretty good. He looks like a statistical outlier. Must have some terrible run blocking, route running, release etc. stats.

Madden throws in red herrings occasionally who should be a lot worse or better than their stats and unlocked skills suggest. But I'm kind of ok with that as it makes it more realistic and less of an exact science.


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[DaBklynWay902]

Quote: Originally Posted by burth179

Check post 490 in this thread

Thanks my brother, don't know how i missed that!

[phantomshark]

Quote: Originally Posted by burth179

I attached a draft strategy guide for anyone that is interested. Focus on identifying all blue chips, and late round red chips with good physical attributes.

I don't like this method, it's going to leave late round picks unscouted. There's easy enough ways to scout all the blue chips and many of the later round red-chips (early round red-chips are pointless since you don't want to pick them until all your blue chips are off the board, and by then the early rounders will be gone).

[burth179]

Quote: Originally Posted by phantomshark

I don't like this method, it's going to leave late round picks unscouted. There's easy enough ways to scout all the blue chips and many of the later round red-chips (early round red-chips are pointless since you don't want to pick them until all your blue chips are off the board, and by then the early rounders will be gone).

Ok fair enough, thanks for your feedback.

When you say "easy enough methods", what exactly are those methods?

Because prior to this going through by position as OMN recommended I was never able to fully scout every single player for blue chip potential.

Now I mean if you skip position groups or just automatically skip certain player types, etc, then that is different. I can do that easy enough. But prior to this method trying to scout every player on the board, I was not able to. Now I can.

When you say leaving late round picks un-scouted, I don't believe that is true but I would like to hear your explanation as to why you feel that is the case.

The post combine scouting focuses on identifying all players in the last 2 rounds that have blue chip physical attributes, with red chip skills. Probably the best "red chip" guys to go after IMO.

For me it's not about quantity, it's about quality and thinking of when the right time to take a red chip is. Which for me is the final 2 rounds of the draft.

But as I said in the document, maybe it is not an efficient method and is a work in progress.

[tdawg3782]

Quote: Originally Posted by burth179

I attached a draft strategy guide for anyone that is interested. Focus on identifying all blue chips, and late round red chips with good physical attributes.

Not a bad write up. About how many prospects were you able to scout and were there still options late? The main reason I ask is I usually never load up on picks and like drafting all the way through the rounds. Trading late picks, as you know, can feel cheap. Just wanted to know if you have options all the way through the draft with your method.

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[burth179]

Quote: Originally Posted by tdawg3782

Not a bad write up. About how many prospects were you able to scout and were there still options late? The main reason I ask is I usually never load up on picks and like drafting all the way through the rounds. Trading late picks, as you know, can feel cheap. Just wanted to know if you have options all the way through the draft with your method. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I didn't actually draft yet, but I was able to identify 41 total prospects. All 23 blue chips, and 18 red chips, I would suspect in a stronger draft you'd still have about the same amount of prospects identified, but with a larger distribution of blue chips using this method.

Here is the distribution by projected round (not talent round).

1E - 6 Blue, 3 Red
1M - 5 Blue
1L - 7 Blue, 4 Red
2E - 1 Blue, 1 Red
2M - 1 Red
2L - 1 Blue
3E - 1 Red
4L - 1 Red, 1 Blue
5M - 1 Blue
6E - 3 Red
6M - 1 Red
6L - 1 Blue, 1 Red
7M - 2 Red

I was able to fully scout the guys I identified in the late rounds, except for 1 guy I ran out of points. But that's not bad, as you can see about 6 or 7 red chips and 1 blue chip were added to my board when scouting the guys with the blue chip combine results.

[infinite76]

Quote: Originally Posted by burth179

I didn't actually draft yet, but I was able to identify 41 total prospects. All 23 blue chips, and 18 red chips, I would suspect in a stronger draft you'd still have about the same amount of prospects identified, but with a larger distribution of blue chips using this method. Here is the distribution by projected round (not talent round). 1E - 6 Blue, 3 Red 1M - 5 Blue 1L - 7 Blue, 4 Red 2E - 1 Blue, 1 Red 2M - 1 Red 2L - 1 Blue 3E - 1 Red 4L - 1 Red, 1 Blue 5M - 1 Blue 6E - 3 Red 6M - 1 Red 6L - 1 Blue, 1 Red 7M - 2 Red I was able to fully scout the guys I identified in the late rounds, except for 1 guy I ran out of points. But that's not bad, as you can see about 6 or 7 red chips and 1 blue chip were added to my board when scouting the guys with the blue chip combine results.

i usually end up with about 30 to 40 draftable players and i dont think i ever had more than 20 blue chips. but i also dont scout (barely scout) position groups i am set on.