Start of year recurting board

[Heelz]

So i'm starting my third season in a offline dynasty, setting up and populating my board with recruits. I can only scout and offer scholarships, can not add any other recruiting action like send the house etc. Everything is grayed out with a lock icon other than scout and offer scholarship? I have like 1200 hrs of points to spend. What am I missing? Has it always been like that?


Thanks

[Orange Krush]

Yes, you can only scout and offer scholarships

[jello1717]

It’s always been like that. If you hadn’t noticed, then hopefully you didn’t skip the preseason recruiting in the past. When you get to that stage, the recruiting section under your actions tab is checked by default, making it look like you’re already done, even though you’ve done nothing. In all other stages it’s only checked if you have spent all recruiting minutes. So I can definitely see someone seeing the check mark and not knowing they still need to do ALL a recruiting because they think it’s done already.

[Heelz]

Thanks guys. Apparently I just forgot, somehow I thought yr1 of my dynasty I spent all the hours. Appreciate yall chiming in!

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by Heelz

Thanks guys. Apparently I just forgot, somehow I thought yr1 of my dynasty I spent all the hours. Appreciate yall chiming in!

You very well might’ve spent them all year 1 if your school had less prestige (which equates to fewer hours to spend) or had less coach recruiting abilities (which equates to more hours needed to scout. 1200 is a lot of hours. I think I had 450 hours total to scout/offer my 1st year and could only fully scout 15 guys during the preseason.

[tessl]

What I do is offer every 4 star or (rarely) 5 star who has me high on his list. Then I scout 3 stars who have me top 3 and offer the ones I like. Then I scout certain positions and offer the ones I like.

Then adjust based upon how many offers the players have and remove those I can't get while going all in on players at the top of my list. I have yet to have 85 on scholarship but I win a lot because I get good players.

[sherrane]

Chase wrote an article on this a couple of weeks ago.


https://www.operationsports.com/coll...this-not-that/


While I don't agree completely with this because I think it lacks strategy, it is a good starting point and explanation. He suggests you offer 35 scholarships initially. That does not reflect "real life" in my opinion but then again in real life verbal commits reopen their recruiting which does not happen in this game.


I will add 25-- 30 players to my recruiting board. I initially scout the players and Gems get an immediate offer. I usually remove Busts from the board unless I desperately need to fill the position and his ratings are still in the "star power" range for the current state of my program. A recruit who has me #1 will also get an offer unless I was not impressed with his attributes after scouting. I am still working through the recruiting to see what does and doesn't work for me. I have noticed that is it difficult to overcome a pipeline disadvantage. If I'm #1 for a recruit with a silver (level 2) pipeline and #2 or #3 has a gold (level 3) or higher I know that I have to assign at least as many recruiting points as the computer controlled program to have a shot at signing him. I have watched the slow, painful recruiting death from a weaker pipeline often enough to know that I may not be the best recruiter at this point.

[tessl]

Quote: Originally Posted by sherrane

Chase wrote an article on this a couple of weeks ago. https://www.operationsports.com/coll...this-not-that/ While I don't agree completely with this because I think it lacks strategy, it is a good starting point and explanation. He suggests you offer 35 scholarships initially. That does not reflect "real life" in my opinion but then again in real life verbal commits reopen their recruiting which does not happen in this game. I will add 25-- 30 players to my recruiting board. I initially scout the players and Gems get an immediate offer. I usually remove Busts from the board unless I desperately need to fill the position and his ratings are still in the "star power" range for the current state of my program. A recruit who has me #1 will also get an offer unless I was not impressed with his attributes after scouting. I am still working through the recruiting to see what does and doesn't work for me. I have noticed that is it difficult to overcome a pipeline disadvantage. If I'm #1 for a recruit with a silver (level 2) pipeline and #2 or #3 has a gold (level 3) or higher I know that I have to assign at least as many recruiting points as the computer controlled program to have a shot at signing him. I have watched the slow, painful recruiting death from a weaker pipeline often enough to know that I may not be the best recruiter at this point.

It was a good article and I learned from it but I do things a bit differently. I'm Iowa State - not great pipelines - I don't shy away from offering in the initial recruiting week because schools with higher pipelines are on the list. I wait to see if those other schools (a) offer a scholarship and (b) invest recruiting points in that player. If you offer in week 1 you get a head start.

Week 2 I filter for recruits with 0 offers and fully scout players to find players who can play. You also need to have a grasp on attributes and which ones matter in the game. As in real life star level doesn't tell the whole story.