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  • #1
    Demonolith
    Rookie
    • Oct 2008
    • 227

    Making a Sweetney draft guide


    If anybody has used my 2008 draft guide, this one will be similar. I am 95% done with year 2 and just have to finish year 1 as well.

    Here is what this guide contains:
    1. Player names (including which ones are randomized)
    2. Colleges
    3. Potentials for every philosophy
    4. I highlighted certain potentials based on who could be a potential sleeper. 85-89 = yellow, and 90+ = green. Additionally I highlighted the 'Future 50' players a completely different color.
    5. When I release it, it will contain the first 2 years of the Sweetney draft path.

    I want your input, so I have a couple of questions.

    1. Some names are randomized, so I have the players' colleges there (which remain constant). I'm hesitant to put the player comparison as it is kind of redundant and I don't want to clutter the spreadsheet up with too many unnecessary information. If you guys really want it, I could add it in.

    2. Do you want me to highlight all the high potential players? Right now I only have done the potential sleepers, but if you want me to do everything then I can. I kinda wanted to avoid a spreadsheet that is filled with a whole rainbow of colors.

    3. I could pick a few standout players from each year and do a seperate worksheet that contains ALL of their ratings, durability, height, weight, etc. What do you guys think about that idea?
    Last edited by Demonolith; 04-01-2009, 04:36 PM. Reason: Additional info
  • #2
    sammage
    Rookie
    • Jul 2005
    • 102

    Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


    Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

    I don't think you need to do any of the extra things really. I know I go in and run my own highlighting scheme's to the guides I've seen so far.

    BTW, thanks for the effort.

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    • #3
      Demonolith
      Rookie
      • Oct 2008
      • 227

      Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


      Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

      Just clarifying here, is there already a guide for the 1st year of the Sweetney draft? I don't want to waste my time gathering the info for the 1st year if it's already there.

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      • #4
        sammage
        Rookie
        • Jul 2005
        • 102

        Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


        Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

        Not for that draft as far as I know.

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        • #5
          Sanchez_Mareno
          MVP
          • Feb 2009
          • 3485

          Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


          Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

          Do it like your one on the original draft please. Maybe adding in comparisions
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          • #6
            Demonolith
            Rookie
            • Oct 2008
            • 227

            Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


            Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

            I guess you're right. I'll add player comparisons. If people don't need/want them, then they can just delete the column.

            I might do a mock draft, but I want to know how to go about that. For 1 mock draft I will do it when everyone is uniformly at 66% scouted (default after combine). And I'll do another mock draft scouting normally. This is what I did in my 2008 draft. I'm a little unsure if your scouting actually affects other teams' picks as well.

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            • #7
              sammage
              Rookie
              • Jul 2005
              • 102

              Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


              Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

              Yeah, I kept reading that your scouting tipped off other teams, but I haven't run any tests to see if it appears to be true. I'm having a hard enough time obsessing over getting the best coaching staff I can put together. I hate with white hot passion the coach hiring part of this game.

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              • #8
                TheDMG
                Rookie
                • Sep 2008
                • 127

                Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                Originally posted by Demonolith
                I guess you're right. I'll add player comparisons.
                Thanks, the player comparisons are much appreciated.

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                • #9
                  Demonolith
                  Rookie
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 227

                  Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                  Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                  Okay well I finished year 2.

                  -I added player comparisons at the request of the one user. Because of this I am not highlighting whose names are randomized. Players can easily be identified through colleges and player comparisons, as those remain constant.

                  -I will forgo doing an actual mock draft. It wouldn't be that helpful because there are so many variables that can end up drastically changing the draft results. Such as the pick order, team needs, GM draft philosophies, etc. A mock draft wouldn't be that practical.

                  -I have heard no feedback on my third question so I'm assuming that the whole "standout players" thing is unnecessary.


                  Any additional comments, suggestions, complaints, etc are welcome.

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                  • #10
                    sammage
                    Rookie
                    • Jul 2005
                    • 102

                    Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                    Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                    The whole project is technically unnecessary. :wink:

                    However, if you'd have fun putting that together, I'd love to see it at some point. Right now though, I'm anxious for the main guide. I just started another career to go with this guide. I created a coach with the Patriots using the online roster, simmed a season and then jumped in as Miami's head coach. Miami has big problems in year 2 and is going to be a big project. They have real weak talent and LOTS of long term high bonus contracts on those weak players.

                    Sure, it's 'cheating' to use a guide rather than scouting for myself, but in this first season I really need to use the draft effectively or it will be many seasons before the team gets anything close to competitive.

                    Thanks for your work on this...hope it's not just work for you.

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                    • #11
                      Sanchez_Mareno
                      MVP
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 3485

                      Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                      Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                      Ill pick you up on suggestion 3 please
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                      • #12
                        brza37
                        Pro
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 748

                        Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                        Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                        Suggestion 3 would be cool but I think it'd be interesting to see just the main spreadsheet first before you invest a ton of time in suggestion 3. I'm already in year 2 of this path but your spreadsheet could help me kill some time while my PS3 is collecting dust witha broken blu-ray drive.
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                        • #13
                          Demonolith
                          Rookie
                          • Oct 2008
                          • 227

                          Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                          Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                          here it is so far
                          Attached Files

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                          • #14
                            Sanchez_Mareno
                            MVP
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 3485

                            Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                            Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                            Could you put it into excel? please
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                            Just call me Sanchez

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                            • #15
                              erra
                              Rookie
                              • Mar 2009
                              • 9

                              Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide


                              Re: Making a Sweetney draft guide

                              I think this is a great template to go by I cause of the many philosophies I think I will redo my english guide in your template. with your permission of course.

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