FBCB: Best player you've recruited?

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

as I am 124 years old

I knew it.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Peregrine

I have to agree with the love for FBCB - it's an amazing game, and is perfect for me. I tried out DDS:CB recently but found it a bit too complicated for my tastes, and it was very buggy on my system. FBCB is simple, rock-solid, I never get tired of it, and if you're not having fun in your current situation, just retire and start over. I don't even watch the games at all, I prefer to just do the scheduling, recruiting etc and let the games auto-sim.

This post could have come from me.

I don't even like basketball really... but I'm in a FBCB multiplayer league.. go figure!

[Peregrine]

With my current UCLA team, I have two monster centers that I play at C and PF - I call them H&H, and they are a big reason I won the national title last year and led the nation in rebounding.

[MizzouRah]

I'm about to dig back into the game starting...... NOW!

[MizzouRah]

Do most of you play with conference movement?

[Peregrine]

It varies - I am currently playing without it, but my next game I want to play with it - it creates some interesting results, and sometimes it's fun to take a formerly big name school which has fallen down a couple of conferences, and try to take them back up.

[MizzouRah]

Yeah, I'm using "limited".. supposedly from what I've read, it tends to moves team with their regions.

[sooner333]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yeah, I'm using "limited".. supposedly from what I've read, it tends to moves team with their regions.

Yeah, but those regions can be pretty broad. For instance, UC Irvine just moved to the Sun Belt. And pretty much any school can make the WAC in the west, midwest, or south because the footprint is so big (Hawaii to Louisiana).

[Groundhog]

Yeah, I play with Limited. It's strange seeing Drexel in the Ivy League, but fun all the same.

[Buccaneer]

I switch back and forth within the same career. For example, I played Syracuse for 15 seasons in the Big East and then I switched to lowly Colgate with full conference movements on. I thought it would be cool to not only move up their prestige but to go up in the various conferences as well. Then after I did so (from 21 prestige in the Patriot to 78 prestige in the Big East), I reset all of the conferences and switched to another team. I just got done playing 13 seasons with UCLA in the Pac10 and next year, I'll switch to Florida Atlantic in the Atlantic Sun, with limited conference movements on.

[MizzouRah]

Bucc loves him some FBCB.

Lets see what I can do with St. Louis.

[HeavyReign]

Guess there was one team they couldn't beat:

Syracuse 2028 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/12/28 at Morris Brown W 79-55 1-0
11/16/28 at Ohio W 80-70 2-0
11/24/28 at Cornell W 91-72 3-0
11/27/28 Cal State Northridge W 81-59 4-0
11/29/28 at Texas-San Antonio W 83-57 5-0
12/03/28 Birmingham Southern W 83-63 6-0
12/05/28 at Denver W 64-60 7-0
12/07/28 Bradley W 85-53 8-0
12/10/28 Albany W 82-44 9-0
12/15/28 at Arizona L 58-44 9-1
12/22/28 vs. UTEP W 90-71 10-1
12/23/28 vs. Southwest Missouri State W 79-68 11-1
12/24/28 vs. Providence W 70-55 12-1
01/03/29 Virginia Tech W 80-59 13-1 (1-0)
01/06/29 at Pittsburgh W 69-68 14-1 (2-0)
01/10/29 Notre Dame W 70-62 15-1 (3-0)
01/13/29 at Connecticut W 84-77 16-1 (4-0)
01/17/29 Providence W 67-58 17-1 (5-0)
01/20/29 at Notre Dame W 94-54 18-1 (6-0)
01/24/29 at Virginia Tech W 86-56 19-1 (7-0)
01/27/29 Georgetown W 68-59 20-1 (8-0)
01/31/29 Connecticut W 91-53 21-1 (9-0)
02/03/29 at Miami W 74-51 22-1 (10-0)
02/07/29 at Villanova W 75-51 23-1 (11-0)
02/10/29 West Virginia W 84-53 24-1 (12-0)
02/14/29 at Seton Hall W 104-63 25-1 (13-0)
02/17/29 at Providence W 61-46 26-1 (14-0)
02/21/29 Pittsburgh W 78-30 27-1 (15-0)
02/24/29 Boston College W 99-50 28-1 (16-0)
02/28/29 at St. John's W 86-49 29-1 (17-0)
03/03/29 Rutgers W 80-72 30-1 (18-0)
03/08/29 vs. Miami W 89-73 31-1
03/09/29 vs. Rutgers W 78-51 32-1
03/10/29 vs. Providence W 75-40 33-1
03/15/29 vs. Long Island W 94-45 34-1
03/17/29 vs. Creighton W 62-58 35-1
03/22/29 vs. Southern Methodist W 70-60 36-1
03/24/29 vs. Maryland W 77-71 37-1
03/31/29 vs. Missouri W 60-55 38-1
04/02/29 vs. Arizona L 66-51 38-2


Arizona actually had 8 losses...6 in a brutal Pac 10 where 8 teams made the tourney.

[kingnebwsu]

Thanks to whoever restarted this thread. I did a season yesterday (first time in 3 years) and had a blast. The game isn't perfect, but it sure is a lot of fun. And the game has been out for like...6 years or something? That's crazy that it has this kind of longevity.

*cough* The only thing that we need now is a sequel *cough*

[Buccaneer]

Brian, here was my most upsetting season, one that my son still talks about...

11/17/2031 William & Mary W 88-42 1-0
11/19/2031 Coastal Carolina W 93-60 2-0
11/21/2031 at Liberty W 83-32 3-0
11/23/2031 at Elon W 90-69 4-0
11/25/2031 Delaware W 101-54 5-0
11/27/2031 Old Dominion W 82-63 6-0
11/29/2031 Loyola-Maryland W 99-74 7-0
12/01/2031 American W 96-44 8-0
12/03/2031 The Citadel W 98-59 9-0
12/05/2031 College of Charleston W 97-57 10-0
12/07/2031 Western Carolina W 82-63 11-0
12/09/2031 Lehigh W 83-29 12-0
12/11/2031 Maryland-East Shore W 93-64 13-0
01/10/2032 at Duke W 87-62 14-0
01/14/2032 North Carolina W 99-46 15-0
01/17/2032 at Wake Forest W 77-70 16-0
01/21/2032 at Florida State W 84-79 17-0
01/26/2032 Wake Forest W 86-49 18-0
01/28/2032 at Georgia Tech L 70-56 18-1
01/31/2032 Florida State W 67-60 19-1
02/04/2032 at Maryland W 70-63 20-1
02/07/2032 Georgia Tech W 87-54 21-1
02/14/2032 Duke W 96-75 22-1
02/16/2032 North Carolina State W 79-54 23-1
02/21/2032 Maryland W 95-67 24-1
02/23/2032 at North Carolina W 78-75 25-1
02/28/2032 Clemson W 91-58 26-1
03/06/2032 at Clemson W 93-71 27-1
03/10/2032 at North Carolina State W 74-61 28-1
03/16/2032 vs Florida State W 100-62 29-1
03/17/2032 vs Wake Forest W 73-52 30-1
03/18/2032 vs Duke W 83-61 31-1
03/22/2032 vs Jackson State W 108-53 32-1
03/24/2032 vs Minnesota W 98-77 33-1
03/29/2032 vs Fordham W 99-64 34-1
03/31/2032 vs Penn State W 84-65 31-1
04/07/2032 vs Arkansas W 99-64 35-1
04/09/2032 vs Wake Forest L 80-65 35-2

Couldn't beat Wake the one !^@%#$ time when I wanted to.

[Marmel]

Here is the flukiest championship team ever:

2119     12  17   5  11  176  165   48  No Postseason
2118     14  15   9   7  149   84   52  No Postseason
2117     14  15   6  10  170  142   52  No Postseason
2116     16  14   8   8  111  119   53  No Postseason
2115     15  16   6  10  167  126   54  No Postseason
2114     18  15   8   8   99  106   58  No Postseason
2113     20  16   8   8   81   86   58  Loss in NIT Round 2
2112     19  13   8   8   64   67   58  Loss in NIT Round 1
2111     30   6  13   3   12    9   59  NCAA Champion
2110     18  13   8   8   88  100   44  Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
2109     13  16   6  10  189  172   43  No Postseason
2108     11  18   4  12  181  163   44  No Postseason
2107      9  19   5  11  205  201   49  No Postseason
2106     13  16   6  10  174  141   55  No Postseason
2105     15  16   7   9  137   85   61  No Postseason
2104     25  10  12   4   29   28   69  Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
2103     20  11  10   6   57   59   66  Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
2102     12  18   6  10  214  229   64  No Postseason
2101     16  16   8   8  177  145   72  No Postseason
2100     20  16   7   9   57   49   75  Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
2099     21  12  10   6   51   53   78  Loss in NIT Round 3
2098     22  11  11   5   42   52   76  Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
2097     17  15   9   7   99   93   73  No Postseason

[Marmel]

and the most frustrating 6 years ever:

2108 37 2 16 0 2 2 100 Loss in NCAA Championship Game to Duke 68-74
2107 32 4 14 2 4 3 100 Loss in NCAA Final Four to Virginia 54-77
2106 30 7 15 1 8 8 100 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight to Duke 57-59
2105 28 8 13 3 5 7 100 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight to Duke 63-65
2104 33 4 13 3 4 3 100 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight to Duke 62-64
2103 30 6 14 2 5 5 99 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight to Duke 90-101


I went on to win back to back titles in 2109 and 2110 which eased the pain, but not by much!

[Swaggs]

I've had a similarly frustrating run in FOFC-FBCB (the online league):


2021 West Virginia Head Coach 32 6 13 3 Loss in FBCA Elite Eight
2022 West Virginia Head Coach 34 4 14 2 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2023 West Virginia Head Coach 32 7 13 3 Loss in FBCA Championship Game
2024 West Virginia Head Coach 33 4 15 1 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2025 West Virginia Head Coach 24 10 12 4 Loss in FBCA Tourney Round 2
2026 West Virginia Head Coach 29 8 12 4 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2027 West Virginia Head Coach 31 8 12 4 Loss in FBCA Elite Eight

The 2026 team had beaten Pitt at least twice (and I'm pretty sure I got them in the BE tourney, as well) and then we lost to them in the Final Four.

[Swaggs]

Of course the opposite of my run is the current run that Tennessee is on in FOFC-FBCB by Allan:


2016 Tennessee Head Coach 36 2 15 1 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2017 Tennessee Head Coach 39 0 16 0 FBCA Champion
2018 Tennessee Head Coach 39 0 16 0 FBCA Champion
2019 Tennessee Head Coach 34 4 14 2 Loss in FBCA Elite Eight
2020 Tennessee Head Coach 35 4 15 1 Loss in FBCA Championship Game
2021 Tennessee Head Coach 36 2 15 1 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2022 Tennessee Head Coach 34 5 14 2 Loss in FBCA Championship Game
2023 Tennessee Head Coach 33 4 15 1 Loss in FBCA Elite Eight
2024 Tennessee Head Coach 35 3 15 1 FBCA Champion
2025 Tennessee Head Coach 38 0 16 0 FBCA Champion
2026 Tennessee Head Coach 36 2 15 1 Loss in FBCA Final Four
2027 Tennessee Head Coach 38 0 16 0 FBCA Champion

[Radii]

Does anyone have a "startup league" type file with nothing done but the conference changes to set the NCAA up like it is today? I spent a good deal of time making sure our online league was setup correctly but that was done to an existing league with some history already. If I ever saved off a copy of a starter league I've lost it.

Thanks!

[Groundhog]

I tried setting up a file like that, but had some troubles due to the different number of teams today, as well as how massively some of the conferences have changed over the past 5 years or so (I'm looking at you, Conference USA and Big East).

[Radii]

I seem to remember there were some things that couldn't be done, like the addition of North Dakota State and any other new entrants to division 1, but the overall conference setup with the existing teams was definitely possible. I can't believe I lost that stuff, I think I did it on my work laptop, I had a GIANT text file documenting every single thing I'd changed in order since I was so afraid of corrupting the FOFC FBCB league. All gone now.

[Radii]

Ahh, answering my own question:


Here is the NCAA pack:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fbcb/fbcb_real_update.zip

I haven't tried it yet, it looks like it updates the default league.

[Groundhog]

Awesome, nice find Radii. Going to check that out when I get home.

[Balldog]

Originally Posted by Radii

Does anyone have a "startup league" type file with nothing done but the conference changes to set the NCAA up like it is today? I spent a good deal of time making sure our online league was setup correctly but that was done to an existing league with some history already. If I ever saved off a copy of a starter league I've lost it.

Thanks!

I've got one that I'm almost done with, I need to finish naming the mascots. I've changed prestige ratings though, so not sure if you are still interested. I just changed them to reflect DDS:CB since it is more recent.

[Groundhog]

Ping: HR

If you were to ever make a FBCB 2, please allow us to import an excel file to udpate the team names and prestiges.

Aligning the conferences by excel import would be nice too, but I imagine could lead to some problems.

[HeavyReign]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Ping: HR

If you were to ever make a FBCB 2, please allow us to import an excel file to udpate the team names and prestiges.

Aligning the conferences by excel import would be nice too, but I imagine could lead to some problems.

I suspect you would see the data stored in a .csv file with the option to edit it in game as well. But ya editing in excel is roughly 5000x easier. I obviously didn't enter the original data using the game editor either.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by Radii

Ahh, answering my own question:


Here is the NCAA pack:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fbcb/fbcb_real_update.zip

I haven't tried it yet, it looks like it updates the default league.

Yes it does

An NCAA pack was sent to me like 1 or 2 years ago but can't remember who sent it to me (sabotai or sirfozzie maybe), i updated some logos and uploaded that repack to that website and yes, it reflects how was the NCAA one or two years ago. It works perfectly, no bugs, crashes, etc.

[Swaggs]

Originally Posted by Icy

Yes it does

An NCAA pack was sent to me like 1 or 2 years ago but can't remember who sent it to me (sabotai or sirfozzie maybe), i updated some logos and uploaded that repack to that website and yes, it reflects how was the NCAA one or two years ago. It works perfectly, no bugs, crashes, etc.

Just to be clear, it will not affect the structure of an existing league, right? Just any new leagues created from now on?

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Icy

Yes it does

An NCAA pack was sent to me like 1 or 2 years ago but can't remember who sent it to me (sabotai or sirfozzie maybe)

sovereignstar

[Icy]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

Just to be clear, it will not affect the structure of an existing league, right? Just any new leagues created from now on?

Exactly, only new created games.

Originally Posted by Radii

sovereignstar

Ops yeah, i knew it started with "s"

[lcjjdnh]

What is the latest version of the game? Got a new computer and want to make sure I have the most recent patch.

[HeavyReign]

The last one posted should be the one on the main website. Version 1.1.2.

[lcjjdnh]

Great. Thanks.

[Groundhog]

Yeesh, this is the biggest hurting I've ever put on a team. They are probably the worst team in my conference even when healthy, but lost their leading scorer to an academic suspension, their starting PG to a hernia for a month, and during this game they lost their starting SG as well to injury:

 Northwestern State 121, Virginia Commonwealth 51

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Virginia Commonwealth (4-13):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Willie Flores     C    27   0-3   0-0   1   3   3  2   0
William Graham    PF   17   1-2   2-2   1   2   0  4   5
Shaun Brown       SF   20   1-4   2-2   2   3   1  4   5
Gregory Edwards   SG   14   1-4   0-0   2   2   1  0   3
Justin Bernstein  PG   40   5-9   4-4   0   3   2  3  15
Calvin Perez      SF   28   2-5   2-4   0   1   1  1   6
Andre Harrison    PF   12   2-4   0-0   0   0   0  2   4
Mack Delatorre    PF   18   2-5   0-1   0   4   1  0   4
John Dunigan      SG   26   2-6   5-6   0   2   0  0   9

Turnovers: 32 (W.Flores 2, W.Graham 6, S.Brown 5, 
 G.Edwards 1, J.Bernstein 10, A.Harrison 1, J.Dunigan 7)
Blocked Shots: 0 
Steals: 5 (W.Graham 1, G.Edwards 1, C.Perez 1, 
 J.Dunigan 2)
3P FGs: 4-11 (W.Graham 1-1, S.Brown 1-3, G.Edwards 1-2, 
 J.Bernstein 1-2, J.Dunigan 0-3)

Northwestern State (14-4):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Kelenna McEachern PF   19  8-12   6-7   0   2   0  4  24
Al Johnson        PF   25   3-5   1-1   2   7   1  1   7
Tony Fiscus       SF   25  8-13   2-2   3   5   5  3  19
Michael Doak      SG   20   6-8   0-0   1   1   3  0  14
Darryl Washington PG   25   4-7   0-0   1   3  10  4  12
Ezra Burnett      SG   17   4-9   2-2   2   3   5  3  10
Joseph Lyles      SG   10   1-7   0-0   2   2   3  2   2
Ralph Fagan       SF   15   6-8   2-2   4   5   2  0  17
Sam Davis         PG    9   2-4   0-0   1   1   1  1   5
Scott Wertz       C    21   1-2   3-3   0   5   2  1   5
John Hare         C    15   3-4   0-0   4   8   3  0   6

Turnovers: 11 (A.Johnson 2, T.Fiscus 2, D.Washington 2, 
 E.Burnett 1, S.Davis 1, S.Wertz 3)
Blocked Shots: 2 (M.Doak 1, J.Hare 1)
Steals: 16 (K.McEachern 1, A.Johnson 2, T.Fiscus 2, 
 M.Doak 5, E.Burnett 1, J.Lyles 2, R.Fagan 2, J.Hare 1)
3P FGs: 13-24 (K.McEachern 2-2, A.Johnson 0-1, T.Fiscus 
 1-3, M.Doak 2-3, D.Washington 4-6, E.Burnett 0-2, 
 J.Lyles 0-2, R.Fagan 3-3, S.Davis 1-2)

Player of Game: SF Ralph Fagan (NW ST)

Game Summary:

Game Stats       VACM  NW ST
Halftime Score     24     58
FGM-FGA         16-42  46-79
FG%              .381   .582
FTM-FTA         15-19  16-17
FT%              .789   .941
3PM-3PA          4-11  13-24
3P%              .364   .542
Rebounds           20     42
Assists             9     35
Steals              5     16
Blocks              0      2
Turnovers          32     11
Team Fouls         16     19

[kingnebwsu]

So I finally won my first national championship in 2026 with my Wright State Raiders who are currently in the Big 12 (after starting in the prestige-3 rated Horizon League). We were lead by our 7'0" senior center Shayne Chao. I didn't think he was that impressive on his ratings, and barely started his sophomore year. I'm glad I did because he averaged 10 ppg and 8 rpg per game on our team that went to the elite eight. That improved to 12 & 9 his junior year on a team that exited the tournament quite early. Bolstered by the best recruiting class in Wright State history, Chao had an amazing senior season where he averaged 15 ppg and 10.8 rpg, 2.2 bpg and shot 52% from the field. He was named conference player of the year and made 1st team all-american (!!!). He was rated 4-stars and #30 overall coming out of high school. He's projected to go undrafted and is overshadowed by my PF who is projected to go in the top 5 despite averaging only 6 ppg & 6 rpg this season. His defense is great but he fouls out all of the time.

If you leave a scholarship open for a player who declares for the draft, is there any chance he comes back to school? I haven't seen it happen...but I remember reading about some game that does it. Can't remember which one though.

[RPI-Fan]

FBCB is the game you're thinking of... but isn't Chao already a senior?

[kingnebwsu]

Yeah, I was wondering more for my PF (who was a junior). He didn't come back. Hopefully I'll be able to replace my front line and make another run at a title.

It was so gratifying to finally break through and win a championship. My program was steadily improving but we could never break through. We lost in the elite eight 4 out of 5 years (lost in the sweet sixteen the other year). It was great to finally get to the Final Four (as an established program versus the fluke time we made national runner-up with a senior-laden mid-major quality team).

This game rocks

[Groundhog]

Umm... holy shit, I just won the national championship!!!

I've never won it before, and it took me since 2003 real time with the one team, but man is it an awesome feeling!

It was completely surprising too, as we lost one of my best ever players (Howell, the guy with the amazing line on page 1 of this thread), have zero players on my roster ranked as top-100 recruits, and started the year 6-4, but we would never lose again, sweeping the conference and taking out the tournament as a #7 seed! We won 27 games in a row and were undefeated for 4 months.

 Northwestern State Demons 2013 Season Schedule

  Date      Opponent                              Result         Record        
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  11/17/13  at North Carolina A&T (7-23)          W 90-42        1-0           
  11/20/13  Southeastern Louisiana (19-13)        W 98-77        2-0           
  11/22/13  Louisiana-Monroe (15-15)              W 81-61        3-0           
  11/26/13  at Utah (20-12)                       L 88-87        3-1           
  12/01/13  Rice (7-24)                           W 96-59        4-1           
  12/07/13  at Massachusetts (16-14)              L 90-86        4-2           
  12/11/13  at Ohio (18-15)                       W 79-72        5-2           
  12/15/13  Mississippi State (19-13)             L 71-67        5-3           
  12/18/13  New Orleans (23-9)                    L 86-82        5-4           
  12/21/13  at Austin Peay (13-17)                W 78-52        6-4           
  12/25/13  at William & Mary (13-17)             W 77-66        7-4 (1-0)     
  12/28/13  Old Dominion (12-18)                  W 96-62        8-4 (2-0)     
  01/08/14  at Old Dominion (12-18)               W 85-71        9-4 (3-0)     
  01/11/14  at Virginia Commonwealth (6-23)       W 83-64        10-4 (4-0)    
  01/15/14  UNC Wilmington (15-14)                W 69-63        11-4 (5-0)    
  01/18/14  Pennsylvania (14-16)                  W 81-71        12-4 (6-0)    
  01/22/14  at Pennsylvania (14-16)               W 89-52        13-4 (7-0)    
  01/25/14  Virginia Commonwealth (6-23)          W 121-51       14-4 (8-0)    
  01/29/14  at Towson (15-17)                     W 82-75        15-4 (9-0)    
  02/01/14  Fordham (10-19)                       W 85-70        16-4 (10-0)   
  02/08/14  at UNC Wilmington (15-14)             W 75-64        17-4 (11-0)   
  02/15/14  George Mason (18-14)                  W 84-65        18-4 (12-0)   
  02/17/14  Towson (15-17)                        W 84-82        19-4 (13-0)   
  02/19/14  at Fordham (10-19)                    W 86-65        20-4 (14-0)   
  02/22/14  at George Mason (18-14)               W 97-62        21-4 (15-0)   
  02/26/14  at Hofstra (15-15)                    W 102-80       22-4 (16-0)   
  03/01/14  William & Mary (13-17)                W 96-68        23-4 (17-0)   
  03/05/14  Hofstra (15-15)                       W 96-54        24-4 (18-0)   
  03/08/14  vs. Old Dominion (12-18)              W 89-65        25-4          
  03/09/14  vs. Pennsylvania (14-16)              W 85-84        26-4          
  03/10/14  vs. Towson (15-17)                    W 89-83        27-4          
  03/20/14  vs. LSU (18-14)                       W 93-86        28-4          
  03/22/14  vs. Creighton (24-11)                 W 96-87        29-4          
  03/27/14  vs. Clemson (27-7)                    W 88-73        30-4          
  03/29/14  vs. UCLA (32-6)                       W 82-72        31-4          
  04/05/14  vs. Cincinnati (24-14)                W 99-92        32-4          
  04/07/14  vs. Illinois (33-8)                   W 82-73        33-4          

And we are a 66 prestige team, which I imagine might change a fair bit as soon as I hit the 'end season' button.

I've never been so damn happy about winning a video game.

[kingnebwsu]

Congrats man

I had a similar run with a team where I started 4 seniors (and 2 more off the bench). We had never made it out of the first round in our 12 year history...and we made it to the title game where we lost to a crazy-good Maryland team. We beat 4 teams that should have whomped us by 20 points. I didn't make the NCAA's for like 4 or 5 straight years after that, which definitely hurt. Hope you don't lose a lot of your team to graduation

[Buccaneer]

Your prestige should go from 66 to 78. I believe that's the max for winning the conference, winning the conf. tourney and winning the NCAA tourney. Congrats.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by kingnebwsu

Congrats man

I had a similar run with a team where I started 4 seniors (and 2 more off the bench). We had never made it out of the first round in our 12 year history...and we made it to the title game where we lost to a crazy-good Maryland team. We beat 4 teams that should have whomped us by 20 points. I didn't make the NCAA's for like 4 or 5 straight years after that, which definitely hurt. Hope you don't lose a lot of your team to graduation

We lost 2 starters, a defensive PF and a steady point man, and our 6th man, a combo-guard. Stupidly I didn't really recruit a replacement PG, so I'm starting a 5th year senior who is a defensive specialist but just 6 out of 10 for hands, and he's averaging 5 TOs a game through 3 games to start the following season. I did recruit two highly rated PGs but neither was as good as advertised unfortunately, and one is redshirting this year.

I've found one mistake I've made as my prestige has grown is that I'm far too often looking at a recruit's ranking rather than key attributes, so now I have a team loaded with 'all-rounder' type talent, where as before I used to recruit specialists at each position. It's made me really deep, but I don't have a key go-to guy this year, and it's definitely showing. Need to get back to basics on recruiting.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Your prestige should go from 66 to 78. I believe that's the max for winning the conference, winning the conf. tourney and winning the NCAA tourney. Congrats.

IIRC it went to 77.

[kingnebwsu]

Without going too deep into strategy, I've really enjoyed going after perimeter players who can shoot the three. I also make defensive rebounding & post defense the main 2 attributes I look at when scouring for PF's and C's. Inside is also helpful for them. I really like perimeter guys who can shoot and score from anywhere. I think I need to refocus on my recruits' FT ratings, as my FT % hasn't been so hot lately.

[Groundhog]

Back when I was recruiting for a low prestige rating and was recruiting guys rated the 150-300 range, my team make-up was always:

1 big guy with high INS and SHT.
1 big guy with high ORB/DRB and PSD and pref. BLK.
1 SF with good HDS and PRD/PSD.
1 SG with good HDS, good 3PT, good PRD.
1 PG with good HDS, PAS, PRD and pref. 3PT.

And that was it. It's easy to get guys like that in the lower 3-star players, even if it means sucking in the other areas, and build an offense around it. Now I get tempted by highly rated prospects, and it may hurt me this season as I have few specialists to build an offense around. The amount of depth and overall talent I have, however, has allowed me to play a very up-tempo game, because I have a lot of guys who can pass the ball well and shoot.

I think even the top teams in the game, while they may have 2 or 3 (sometimes more, but the majority don't) 4 or 5 star guys in their starting 5, their primary depth guys are often lower rated guys than those that make up most of my roster, and some of them wouldn't even be hitting the court for me. That depth lets me run'n'gun and eventually I find myself pulling away. The season just past was the first time I've altered my strategy at all, due to all this 100-200 rated talent I'm pulling in each season, and I went and won a national championship, so I wonder if my "careful" lineups earlier, where I concentrated on defense and lack of turnovers, was the way to go, or whether the run'n'gun method I'm playing now might have yielded better results all along.