Off season recruiting
 

If I am going into off season recruiting and I have not offered a scholarship to a certain player is there a way to offer in the off season? If not even if I am in the lead and put all my points on him there is no way to sign him right?
Also, I have 2 recruits where I am the only scholarship offer. There is no need to put any points on them in the offseason, right?

Re: Off season recruiting
 

Yes, you can offer a scholarship in off season. And if you're the only scholarship then you will land them for sure

Re: Off season recruiting
 

I agree to an extent but this is not 100% accurate.

You can offer scholarships to anyone in the offseason, however if you are adding a recruit that doesn't have you in their Top 10 in the post-season you will never get them from my experience regardless of how many points you give them. If they are in your Top 10 you still may not get them but you have a better chance.

If you're the only scholarship offer, you most likely don't have to put more points. But the CPU could offer a scholarship and devote all of their points to steal them so if you really want that recruit I would invest some points to avoid this situation.

Lastly you are never guaranteed to sign a recruit even if you are the only scholarship offer heading into the Signing week during the off season. This is because each recruit has a certain point limit you must reach before they commit. So if through the season/off season you do not reach this limit there are occasions where the recruit will simply not sign with any team, and be deleted from the game after you sim past the Signing period week.

Re: Off season recruiting
 

I'm heading into offseason recruiting. Bama leads me by 1425 points for a HB recruit. His lock % is 73%. If I do a calculation it shows for him to have been 100% locked the point lead would have to have been 1950. Is my theory correct on this? Is this how it works?

Re: Off season recruiting
 

I'm not quite sure how you calculated but an additional 500 points to get from 73% to 100% doesn't really sound right. You'd have to know how many points have been invested in him by that team to determine the remaining points.

Being down 1425 points, Ohio State may think they have him locked up and not devote any more points so you could steal him with maybe 2-3k points.

I can tell you that the CPU typically goes after only a few recruits but they put a lot of points into each one. So if you really want this guy it may be worth to invest almost all of your points for that offseason in him.

Re: Off season recruiting
 

I'm thinking the points lead is what they are looking at for % lock. 1425 out of 1950 is 73%. Of course it's just a theory. Tell me how it works, you guys here probably have way more game time than I do on it. I've only had this game 3 months.

Re: Off season recruiting
 

Jello can you answer this? You seem to know quite a bit about how the game functions.

Re: Off season recruiting
 

1425 isn't the # of points you've aquired (if you spend 700 per week, that'd only be 2 weeks worth). It's how big of a lead you have.

The % is what percentage of his total lock amount you have.

IE. if his lock amount is 20,000 (just a made up number as every recruit's goal is different) and you're 73% locked, then you've amassed a total of 14,600 points. If you have a lead of 1425, then you've spent 14,600 while the #2 team has spent 13,175. You'd still need to spend another 5,400 to lock him.

IE. If his lock amount is 10,000, then you've spent a total of 7,300 and 2nd place has spent 5,875. You'd still need to spend 2,700 to lock him.