Temat: Draft and Sports Acadamy

14 scouted, so far. 1 A, 1 C, and 12 D's.

(and I am scouting 6/6 and 5/6, with no particular pattern to my picks, in case anyone is curious.)

A's have been proven to come in at higher ORs.

Even if you dont keep the guy and train him, an A will sell for more on the market. No player that you get from this draft will serve as a viable backup in the next few seasons, so drafting a C (even if he turns out as a B) won't help you very much.

Does anyone know how PM decides the draft order? i would expect the worst teams to have a higher draft position than the best teams. i am arguably the best team in my league/conference (1 game behind 1st place) but i got #2 draft spot???

1st draft is whoever has the best SA/staff. Team can move up or down up to 3 positions in the draft.

2nd draft is the worst team

I'd have to check, but I thought first draft of the season was by SA level and last draft was by league ranking. Like I said though, going off memory here and not any resources.

I won't do the analysis because there is currently no data. As you said you are implying that the soccer system will be the same as the basketball, which is a fine assumption, but until any validation is done it is really not worth going to the extent of doing calculations.

In addition, the fact that you don't even take into account that the draft is 64 and not 100 shows you haven't really thoroughly looked at your numbers because this increases the chance to blindly pick an A from 1% to 1.56%.

With that being said, I am curious how you determined that a C has a 0.87% chance of being an A. If you could go into more detail with that I would appreciate it.

My level 5 SA has only given me players who are roughly 140 OR. So happy to have started building that early...

I'm not so sure that lvl 5 will be a massive advantage. I think the smart players are working their big 4. Though, I have noticed a lot of people are building either erratically or all facilities equal. I think about a third of managers (guessing, by the way) will build SA to maybe 6 (7 if they skimp on other big 4 items and stands, or get really rich in the market) by the next draft.

not sure if there is "right" or wrong" unless of course someone is focusing on building Medical, Maintenance and Education.

I think its different strategies ... there are those who believe in the draft and have some "earlier" advantage, others who believe in making most money earlier and building Arena, some who believe in buying cheap in the market and ignoring SA and building TF/Regen.

HR is a "tricky" one cause unless one believes it will help "tremendous" then build earlier or late in the season (as long as the final level before sponsor is the same) makes no difference.

Speaking for myself, i don't believe in the draft (this season) and earlier advantage from it. with that said I was going to leave my SA to level 4 but "had" to build to level 5 so id not be too far behind others. Don't think i will improve to level 6 this season.

I'm no longer interested in how you figured out the 0.87% chance of getting an A. All you did was a simple distribution of skills and did that. Which has its own error of assuming that the odds of being off by 14 is the same as being off by 13 and so on.

So while it is a good rough estimate, it is still not useful due to the lack of applicable data in the assumptions.

My league's draft lists only one round. What SA level would result in a second-round pick being awarded, if any?

Level 4 with comparatively "decent" staff, or level 8 with no staff.

This is probably a rare event...

But what happens if pre-draft by a day or two, or even the day of the draft, your numbers shift and you should get another pick. Does the programming recognize that for that draft? (I am in no where near getting this lucky break...I'm just curious.)

Nope. Draft picks are set when the players list is generated.

I would just like to find one A player to justify my lv6 SA first pick without even a second round haha