Off season Discussion

[irabowman]

I have just accepted I know know very little about how to draft good players in this version of the game with the current scouting accuracy. I just look at some bars and hope for the best.

All my players 2nd rd on took a hit in TC this season, All the ones I had scouted were gone by 2nd rd other than the 2 QB's. I am scared will take a bigger hit after Ex2. So wasn't happy about that.

[Guest]

So far it looks like scouting bars are the primary indicator. Personally, I like it like this. I'm not a fan of the whole combine correlation approach. For me, that took the fun out of the game.

It is hard enough to keep up with you vets as it is.

I used to do most of my drafting based on combine outliers so this has all wrought a lot of havoc with me. haha

[Cory]

To me it makes sense to have the bars be more accurate than combines. If you focus on hiring coaches that scout and interview well you should get a marked advantage in the draft over people that hire coaches that focus on play calling and motivation. If combines can be used to accurately predict the bars we're effectively losing an aspect of coaching bars.

I strongly prefer OOTP's method of using bars and college stats for player evaluation. It gives a much more realistic feel to the drafting process. However, the current method used by FOF seems to be much better than the older method. The more uncertainty in the draft the better as far as I'm concerned.

[Aston]

I think it's similar + X amount of uncertainty. Which is a game changer for those of us who used to rely on data studies like MalcPow's tables. Without near or total certainty about these different combine boundary values, along with the increased randomness in general, many more players have to come into play. It's a good thing.