Subject: NT prospective player discussion

You can drop from my team:
Cory Condon
Alan Rains
Kurt Frank

I am just saying that it is more reasonable that the managers(at least those from the US) will nominate candidates from their teams by themselves, instead of you searching through every team. if the managers are not active enough to do the nominations(and send you the scouted Q's), chances are that they are also not active enough to develop those players.

I'm actually more interested in EQ than AVQ, but some managers might not bother with calculating EQ.

To calculate EQ:
(W1+W2+W3+W4+W5+W6+W7)/(W1/Q1+W2/Q2+W3/Q3+W4/Q4+W5/Q5+W6/Q6+W7/Q7)

Wi refers to weight given to attribute i and Qi refers to quality for attribute i, where shooting is attribute 1 and jumping is attribute 7.

AVQ can be misleading (more so in sports where players don't use all attributes), and the AVQ I see with a level 10 HRE is generally very inaccurate.

I have to be relatively lenient with AVQ because the unscouted AVQ can be inaccurate. I have to be relatively lenient with OR because a lot of these players might have bad EQ, be trained for the wrong position (like an 18 year old 193 cm PF), be poorly trained (for instance all OR is put into shooting), or there might be a lack of depth at a position.

One manager that responded excluded players with bad qualities - that is fine for me. If you send the scouting information for your players, you can go ahead and just tell me that they are rubbish for whatever reason.

I posted general requirements in the player requirements thread. Realistically, you can add 20 OR to my min. OR for the players that have the best chance, though players at the minimum with an EQ of 90 or so still have a chance. In addition, high OR (~370+) or the ability to catch up to other players with high OR is a prerequisite for realistic consideration for the senior team. The best 15 year olds for instance will be more interesting to the youth teams (perhaps).

It really doesn't take too long to type the information into a spreadsheet, and I can metrics and quickly compare players using the spreadsheet.

I need to know what there is to work with before I can provide requirements for each position. It also takes time to determine what position a player is currently playing (I can speculate as to what position I would have the player play and would need the player to play to be seriously considered, but that doesn't always work out).

I actually did post a shorter list. I got responses for about 1/3 or so of the players (I don't actually expect everyone to respond to this list, so it will take even less time; the remainder will have to be scouted by my scouts or a third party).

Thank you - that was actually helpful to me, and I would encourage other managers to follow your example with regard to the players with bad scouted qualities.

As the manager of the U18 national team in hockey, I can say that it isn't true that all the good players will be nominated by the managers. For instance, I've never seen the manager of the Psychos post in the forum, but the Psychos have by far been one of the best teams in hockey and biggest contributors to the U18 national hockey team for most of the time that I've been here. There are a small handful of managers that are really good at helping with the national teams, but that cannot be said about the majority. In addition, many of the best players tend to come from foreign teams (note that foreign teams aren't necessarily less likely to train a player well) from the transfer lists.

I should note that high EQ isn't everything if the facilities (10+, though the better teams already have 11-13 training facilities) and CL (a prospect with 4 CL is automatically excluded and young prospects with a CL of 5 are considered but not preferred) aren't also good. Starting OR can also compensate for lower numbers in the other areas.

As the manager of an U18 team, I just consider thorough scouting to be one of the most important aspects to managing a national team. It is important to scout enough players (from all leagues and transfer lists) to find all of the best players who will remain the best or become the best after a few seasons. It helps to have a depth chart after the best players so that you know of replacements in case one of the top players gets injured or stops training effectively. If I cover more players now, less players will need to be covered in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you. I have that updated to our scouting sheets.

You can drop Sanneh from my team. He'll likely be a career backup. His higher Qs are in the right spots, but still not outstanding. I already gave you the info on the good PG on my team.