What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

[neal6923]

You see it up by the players picture. What does it mean and how do you get it? thanks

[hawkeyebred2332]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

It's actually a x2 and it gives you double points for your pitches that week. So if you are pitching something that normally gives you 14 it will give you 28. Very useful.

As for how you get them I am pretty sure it is random.

[Pokes404]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

Along the same line, I've never found out what the unlocked padlock symbol means. Every once in a while a random recruit will have the aforementioned symbol in the same place as the X2 icon, but I don't know what it means.

[mjussawalla]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

Along the same line, I've never found out what the unlocked padlock symbol means. Every once in a while a random recruit will have the aforementioned symbol in the same place as the X2 icon, but I don't know what it means.

It means that certain attributes have been unlocked for you.
This is great because you have to spend less time finding out what your recruit likes and more time selling your school to them.

[stewart#28]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

good stuff, I had no idea what they meant either...in regards to recruiting...I have had no success recruiting against other teams...not sure why I don't get it, can someone give me a basic example of the best way to go about it?

[jbrew2411]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

good stuff, I had no idea what they meant either...in regards to recruiting...I have had no success recruiting against other teams...not sure why I don't get it, can someone give me a basic example of the best way to go about it?

It all depends on your team and what you are trying to do. If you are a smaller school then you will not pull in the 4 & 5 stars but maybe a few 3 star and 2's. Look at what the player is rated in key areas. You can find good lower rated players if you look. Try and make you campus visits durning big games, helps if you can win as well. Less is more with this game so limit the number of guys you target. I limit my board to 15-20 max. Pipeline states are hot beds for easy players or so I think. Own you state by getting all the best players from your state if you can.

[stewart#28]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

It all depends on your team and what you are trying to do. If you are a smaller school then you will not pull in the 4 & 5 stars but maybe a few 3 star and 2's. Look at what the player is rated in key areas. You can find good lower rated players if you look. Try and make you campus visits durning big games, helps if you can win as well. Less is more with this game so limit the number of guys you target. I limit my board to 15-20 max. Pipeline states are hot beds for easy players or so I think. Own you state by getting all the best players from your state if you can.

thanks...here is my question...so say a recruit has me 3 and another team 1...when i go to recruit against team 1 do i look at what is important to him and if my school has a c+ rating and something is avg interest to the recruit do i down play or hard sell?

[jbrew2411]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

thanks...here is my question...so say a recruit has me 3 and another team 1...when i go to recruit against team 1 do i look at what is important to him and if my school has a c+ rating and something is avg interest to the recruit do i down play or hard sell?

I only worry about me. I hard sell, and only worry about "most, very high, & sway any high". If you rating is in the C's and that is the best you have then hard sell that. I have had zero success with down playing. Best thing to do is spend time on him but don't make it your goal to sign him because you will miss out on a guy that will sign and you could use. Also look after a few weeks for guys that have zero offers. you may be able to sign one of those guys and get a good player. Some of my best players are the guys that get 1 offer and that is from me.

[hawkeyebred2332]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

thanks...here is my question...so say a recruit has me 3 and another team 1...when i go to recruit against team 1 do i look at what is important to him and if my school has a c+ rating and something is avg interest to the recruit do i down play or hard sell?

If I understand you right, you are trying to base what you downplay for other teams off of your own ratings?

What you want to do is downplay based on the other team's ratings. Like if the recruit has a Very High for playing time and the other school can only offer a D+, you want to downplay that pitch. You should see a negative number if you do it right, with -3 being the highest I believe.

From my experience though I would recommend just focusing on your own pitches rather than recruiting against someone else. Why bother putting -3's on someone else when you can put double digit points in favor of yourself? Also, it seems negative recruiting ticks off a lot of recruits a lot faster than normal.

[bcduggan]

Re: What does "+2" mean when recruiting?

Playing with WKU I use a lot of negative recruiting, it works pretty well for me though.