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NCAA Football (PS3) Promotion/Relegation Online Dynasty

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IronBuckI;2221215; said:
We have advanced to 'Cut Players', I will advance again tomorrow night.

Good stuff guy! I'm really glad we were able to blow through most of the offseason tonight.
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Yeah, really glad we were able to bang through the offseason in one night. One good thing about a small tight dynasty that you can do that. Just harder in a dynasty like the other one with 8-10 players and such.

fanaticbuckeye;2221212; said:
My safeties jumped big too, +8 for both FS and +9 for SS. Granted two of them are still 67 and 69 but oh well.
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Yeah, just totally shocked me that all of my safeties jumped in the 8-9 range. I mean my one returning SS really sucked, but my average FS's just shocked me. They are now 77-78 rated which was nice.

Now for my gloating :biggrin:

If I knew my safeties were going to jump like that I wouldn't have put my uber athlete there. Here was his ratings:
QB - 77, 89 speed with 91 THP but 77 THA - Only reason he isn't my starting QB is because I got another athlete that is rated a 74 with 89 speed with 81 THP 84 THA (plus that was his highest rated position)
WR - 78... dang
OLB - 67... hmmmm
CB - 77 (tempting... and my original plan for him)
SS - 79 (position of need, but had another athlete that was a 75 there with more speed)
FS - 81... Yeah baby! My starting FS last year was a 69, so figured that big of a difference would matter. Now if someone would have told me that 69 was turning into a 78 I would have put him at CB. Maybe next season I will switch his position back, or if I get some nice DB recruits I can move him back to QB?

Now my other sick athlete that is 6'6 231 lbs with 90 speed. I didn't scout him 100% but uncovered enough defensive stats that made me think his natural position was a LB. Then he came out as a 64 rated OLB??? FUCK

Then his other positions:
CB - 71 - really? a 6'6 CB? hmmmmm
FS - 77 - dang... talk about a centerfielder
SS - 75 - oooooo, I need SS. If I didn't have other guys rated that high coming in that is where he would have went... until I saw this.
HB - 77... what? He could be an offensive player?
WR - 78 BINGO!!! Then I looked at his WR ratings which I ignored in scouting. low 80s Route running... upper 70s in catch, catch in traffic & spectacular catch... hmmmmmmmm YEAH BABY!!!

Other surprises was a DE/OLB prospect that I found out was a 71 rated OT??? really??? where did that come from. Stuck him at DE, 68 rated. And another ATH that I pegged for OLB that was more of a CB/DB but with 85 speed and a OLB frame and a BIG need for OLB and with my other ATH that I pegged for OLB sucking, I stuck him at OLB with a 67 rating.

So it was quite a learning experience and made position changes a bear since my pre-conceived notions were wrong and had to make changes on the fly. Plus I had to move my teambuilder players that I had to put in different positions back to original positions (I had 2 OL as CBs... :biggrin:)

All I can say is this makes recruiting really fun in this game!

EDIT - Another thing I didn't realize til the preseason recruiting was that you could scout players that already committed. Since I will full I was able to scout some of my original early commits that were never fully scouted. Found 2 gems I never knew I had
 
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Piney;2221460; said:
EDIT - Another thing I didn't realize til the preseason recruiting was that you could scout players that already committed. Since I will full I was able to scout some of my original early commits that were never fully scouted. Found 2 gems I never knew I had
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The post-commit scouting was pretty cool. That's what I did the first couple of weeks while you guys were recruiting. That and negative recruiting the 78 OVR WR that Piney was trying to get after I had my 25 signed. :biggrin: He ended up signing with Houston after Piney filled his class. Piney and I were the only ones that offered him, but the no decision making punk ended up at Houston without an offer.
 
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I also had something pretty crazy happen with cuts. I open the screen, and, despite having three QBs on my roster, there's a 40 OVR QB that walked on. I was going to cut him, because who needs 4 QBs when one of them is a 40 OVR turd? Well, he's from New York, and that gave me 4 players from the state of NY. If I cut him; I lose a pipeline. That was the hardest part about cutting players. I basically had to focus solely on players from California, and players that wouldn't cost me a valuable pipeline, or cause me to lose ground in getting another pipeline.
 
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IronBuckI;2221470; said:
The post-commit scouting was pretty cool. That's what I did the first couple of weeks while you guys were recruiting. That and negative recruiting the 78 OVR WR that Piney was trying to get after I had my 25 signed. :biggrin: He ended up signing with Houston after Piney filled his class. Piney and I were the only ones that offered him, but the no decision making punk ended up at Houston without an offer.
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Yeah, I filled up my 25 scholarships in Week 2, but kept recruiting him for shits and giggles, and you never know if he would 'walk on'

He was a backup plan in case for some reason I lost out on a guy. I really hoped you got that WR to commit because I also was recruiting the Athlete that you ended up getting. Oh, thanks for letting us know that you had two highly rated guys but could sign only one, and I didn't even need to scout them since you told us their ratings :biggrin:

And of note... I am thinking you are right that recruiting is a tad bit too easy. What setting is it on? If it is on varsity... then definately bump it up to all-american. But if it is on All-American... well I would really need to know how hard is recruiting on heisman.
 
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Piney;2221526; said:
Yeah, I filled up my 25 scholarships in Week 2, but kept recruiting him for shits and giggles, and you never know if he would 'walk on'

He was a backup plan in case for some reason I lost out on a guy. I really hoped you got that WR to commit because I also was recruiting the Athlete that you ended up getting. Oh, thanks for letting us know that you had two highly rated guys but could sign only one, and I didn't even need to scout them since you told us their ratings :biggrin:

And of note... I am thinking you are right that recruiting is a tad bit too easy. What setting is it on? If it is on varsity... then definately bump it up to all-american. But if it is on All-American... well I would really need to know how hard is recruiting on heisman.
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It's on varsity. And, yeah, that same WR was a backup plan for me too. He was there just in case I didn't land all of those final three recruits.
 
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fanaticbuckeye;2221619; said:
Edit: I should say, I am.
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Piney;2221643; said:
I finished mine last night
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Good. Olaf sent me a "done" message after I advanced to cuts, but it was only a couple minutes after. So I'm not sure if he was done with cuts, or he was done checking his player progression, so I just need to hear from him again and I'll advance.
 
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IronBuckI;2221721; said:
Advanced to the preseason. Olaf is now in the Big East: North Division. I am in the MWC: West Division. Piney is in Conference USA. Fanatic is in the Sun Belt.
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So when you work out schedules, I would like away games in Georgia and California please
 
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