Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #4 Scouting Gems and Busts

[msuduo]

Do we know if the AI recruiting has been fixed?

In 11, It's take a new job and the team would be over recruited at certain positions.

Not sure about 12 since I didn't stick with it

[TajDeni]

Quote: Originally Posted by jello1717

Spoiler You're going to want to scout players if you want to know how good they'll be. You can see how it works from some of the vids on youtube. I don't know if the 40 time will change with scouting, but all of the ratings will. The best way to look at it is that you have guesses as to their ratings, but you won't know for sure until you actually scout them. IE. if you look @ a HB and see that his TRK is a B, in NCAA '12, you'd know that he'll come in with around 83-86 TRK. However, in '13, that B is just a guess. When you scout him you might find that he does indeed have 85 TRK. However, after taking a closer look you might find that it's actually a 90 TRK, or it could be only a 75 TRK. In some of the recruiting vids you can see that sometimes the initial ratings guesses can be off by quite a bit. I think I saw a QB with A- THP only end up in the high 70s after being scouted. If you look @ a QB and you're expecting 92 THP, don't scout him and find out that he actually only has 78 THP, you're gonna really regret not scouting him before spending tons of time recruiting and then scouting him. EDIT: Check out this video: Look at the scouting of Cedrick Walker. He has these abilities scouted: Expected: C -> 78 D -> 53 C -> 79 D -> 34 D -> 39 D -> 55 Worse than initially expected: B -> 74 A -> 86 Better than expected: C -> 83 C -> 85 C -> 86 D -> 76 So if you initially wanted this guy as a WR, you may be disappointed by his lack of catching ability. However, you may not have been impressed with his cover skills before, but after scouting you see that he's actually quite good at both man and zone coverage.

thanks, looks like i will be taking it seriously, controlling a solid team, not great, in a well below avg recruiting area. as 99% of my recruits will be coming from out of state, i cant afford to miss on very many of them. especially at QB.