Asunto: Draft

i take 3.5*+ players from sports academy, and i don't plan on taking any less from the draft. unless i have the first overall pick and there's an A+ potential player in the draft, i'm not going online for the next one

My first overall "A" pick:

94/92/94/50/53/51/96

My A player 4* 286 OR 6/6 53/96/99/86/95/91/82. Hopefully scouting holds up. B players 2.5* and 3*

A players are 75 AQ and above. My 76 AQ player is, by definition, an A player. But with 3 key attributes in the 50-53 region... I can't train him in any position.

Only reason I'd keep him is for nostalgia...

My only A player, unscouted :

15yo, 6/6, 276
Qs : 79/95/99/45/4353/65

No nostalgia here. Gargabe bin.

The B player I signed is way beyond crap. No Qs above 64.

My A player was 63%. I'm desapointed with what i've got!

Missed the whole thing, wish it was scheduled on the weekday, not Saturday.

my a+ dude ended up being 15years old at 290OR 5/6CL, def 90, off 78, sho 79, pas 66, tech 98 agr 93. unscouted. not a bad prospect

I think we all need to look at this a bit differently. In a given week how many teams in a league pull a player 80% plus? In my ppm career I average less than 1 a season. so for arguement sake lets put it at 1 - 1/16 pulls have a really good player. With 20 teams, there should have been about 1 good player in each draft.

But I do feel the OR was way off. There was an A pulled in my league by a lvl 15 SA team and he is 357, another A pulled by a lvl 14 SA @ 290. Seems very low

You're actually right about this. in 16 seasons, I've pulled 5 80% + player, the best being 82% AQ. We all got excited because we assumed it would look like a real draft.
The fact is, if we're lucky, there's going to be 1 or 2 guys per draft who are worth keeping.

The probability of:
a goalie with 80 plus in all three atty's: 1/125
a goalie with 90 plus in all three atty's: 1/1000
a forward with 80 plus in 4 skills: 1/625
a defenceman with 90 plus in 5 skills: 1/100000

Make him an early season 6/6 and the odds get that much worse.
Better SA gets more chances so odds improve with better facilities.

Which means there's next to no point of the draft, especially beyond round 1.

It was fun though. They are just looking to keep our long time managers interested. As well as trying to create new revenue streams. Cause really. My credits just sit there till I need PRO or market agent.

I think the draft would be better if it had 5 times the picks of the league, and had a couple more A's or an A+ in the draft. Otherwise the draft is only for the first overall pick and even then it's probably a bad pick... The thing we have to remember is the academy doesn't give us a star or even 3* players often... Well mine doesn't. I thought the draft was going to be like the NHL drafts and the first 10 picks were going to be awesome with the next 10 pretty good. Just had to out some reality to it. That is why I think having a ton more players in the draft so that teams can't scout every 6/6 player or even close to it but have more better players mixed in would make it fun, some good players could get overlooked and that makes it entertaining.