leaving for draft sucks

[crackbabyathletics]

how come some players will not stay no matter how much you try to convince them? just because my 85 overall redshirt sophomore RG had a great season doesnt mean hes a sure thing in the nfl yet hes dead set on entering the draft.
the problem is that i play on AA and like to run the ball alot. therefore, my HB's always have great rushing stats and win awards and then leave after one year as starter. i have never had an elite running back because they always freakin go pro before they get really good!
is there anyway to turn off underclassmen going pro? or some other way to keep them from leaving? it really messes with my recruiting when four starters decide to go pro and now i have huge holes in my depth chart and no way to fill them before the next season

[Sublime12089]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

1. Build depth
2. That's real life

[crackbabyathletics]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

and how come ONLY non seniors leave for the draft?
oklahoma has an 88 jr going pro but a 97 rolb graduating?
seniors never leave for pro draft for some reason

[Th3Rush22]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

and how come ONLY non seniors leave for the draft?
oklahoma has an 88 jr going pro but a 97 rolb graduating?
seniors never leave for pro draft for some reason

If it says graduating then that means there seniors, they will still go pro, and it only says pro draft if it is early

[BizzyBobby23]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

Yes there is a way.

First though, I'd like to say that I actually LOVE experiencing these hardships. I get pissed at first, but these and other hardships give my dynasty another breath of life making it worth playing.

Here's how:

At the end of your season, make a backup of your dynasty and MAKE SURE you create the backup BEFORE you advance to end of season. The players actually make their decision about leaving during the Advance to End of Season stage OR the Advance to Offseason stage instead of during the beginning stage of the off season. I can't remember which so to be safe, create your backup before you Advance to end of season.

If you can't get a player to stay, simply load your backup and advance to end of season and then to offseason and when you get to "players leaving" you will have different results in which the player is either no longer leaving or is able to be convinced to stay. This also works for generating a different batch of offseason recruits.

Reloading your dynasty from the beginning of offseason does not change anything. You have to go back further and reload your dynasty at a time prior to Advance to season end if you want different auto-generated results during offseason.

[ViLLiO]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

I wish Chizik could've turned off Nick Fairley and CN...

Real life, brah.

[IrishNDFan]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

This is actually a feature of the game I really like. Sometimes you can get lucky and keep them (ala LaMicheal James electing to comeback after a 1700yd season), and sometimes your star QB and one of your star wideouts leave early (ala Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate)

You just never know, and that keeps things interesting.

[MagicMan1315]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

how come some players will not stay no matter how much you try to convince them? just because my 85 overall redshirt sophomore RG had a great season doesnt mean hes a sure thing in the nfl yet hes dead set on entering the draft.
the problem is that i play on AA and like to run the ball alot. therefore, my HB's always have great rushing stats and win awards and then leave after one year as starter. i have never had an elite running back because they always freakin go pro before they get really good!
is there anyway to turn off underclassmen going pro? or some other way to keep them from leaving? it really messes with my recruiting when four starters decide to go pro and now i have huge holes in my depth chart and no way to fill them before the next season

Mark Sanchez.

Question about this. Do you have to have Sophmores or Juniors leaving for the draft in order for your pro factory to go up?

[ghettoqball]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

Am I the only person who doesn't even try to convince players to stay? The CPU doesn't convince their players to stay, and it's not like the player needs another advantage.

[BizzyBobby23]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

and how come ONLY non seniors leave for the draft?
oklahoma has an 88 jr going pro but a 97 rolb graduating?
seniors never leave for pro draft for some reason

Also, I'm pretty sure the thread starter knows that seniors have to leave because of graduation. I believe his point was for the game to differentiate the seniors that were of caliber to enter the draft from those who were not. Obviously all the seniors have to "leave", but it would be nice to see which of your seniors entered the draft or how many players from your team were drafted to correspond with your programs Pro Potential grade. I always wanted more in this area...

[ViLLiO]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

Am I the only person who doesn't even try to convince players to stay? The CPU doesn't convince their players to stay, and it's not like the player needs another advantage.

Sometimes I don't unless it's a key position I need, but even then I won't spend much time on him. 10, maybe 20 minutes

[Cletus]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

I remember one year it told you where your guy was drafted. I know it was on the ps1 days because I remember a guy who was rated 68 overall taken in the second round when I was Colorado State.

[ATLsportsfan]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

Am I the only person who doesn't even try to convince players to stay? The CPU doesn't convince their players to stay, and it's not like the player needs another advantage.

I'm with you. I never try to convince anyone to stay. If they want to leave, no worries.

[Ike Slider2]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

In '11 though I'm pretty sure they could, one year Luck was on the list of people leaving early but then he came back, happened again the next year

[Strings74]

Re: leaving for draft sucks

I've never had more than two guys leave early and it's never taken more than 3 hours total to get an answer one way or another. I'm not sure why you get 10 hours to work on them.

I actually had a funny situation with a true junior RB that progressed to a 99 overall rating (don't ask me how that happens).

I actually had TWO 99 rated RB's, the guy leaving was about to be a true senior, so I convinced him to stay then promptly redshirted him.

I run a tight ship.

:o