If your recruiting a player, let's say a SF and one of his top 3 'needs' is getting playing time, go through your roster and change all your SF's to different positions. This way your recruit thinks he's getting playing time and you usually get a nice boost in your recruit percentage bar. Use 'home visits' exclusively for your highest rated recruiting coach....they take 15 points, pretty heafty, so use up your home visits on your best recruiter. Phone calls aren't as important so let your secondary recruiter handle them. This helps me. Usually after 2 weeks you can see who is truely interested in your program or not. If you have 3 schorlarships and your recruiting let's say 8 players, after 2 weeks weed out the players that don't have you in their top 5, usually if your outside the top 5 after 3 weeks and clearly below other teams, they won't sign, so weed them out completely and take them off your list and move on with different players. When looking at the main recruiting page highlight the the players that have the highest percentage interest in your team and look through them...even though many of them might be 3 star or some 4 star players, so many people only actively recruit 5 star players and get burned only to have no backup, many 3 star players can be top 200 players that turn out to be pretty decent. Don't just look at that star rating, look at the # overall rating....3 star recruits go from 200 rank to 400 and thats a big difference, after the first recruiting period there are often many very good 240 rank or so players left. I've gotten nice recruiting classes with little trouble going after players that show big interest in me right away, don't fight for recruits that have a sub 65% interest in you in the beginning of the recruiting period. Your wasting your time.Also, if you only have a couple scholarships, add a couple Jr's to your recruiting list, it helps you the next season and gets that recruit interested in your school....it gives you a head start for the next season. It makes sense to use as many of your recruit points every week as possible.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Apr 9 2007, 03:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>speaking of college hoops and recruiting, does anybody play Hoops Dynasty on Whatifsports?</div>What is this? An online game? Talk to me.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (drake24 @ Apr 9 2007, 03:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What is this? An online game? Talk to me.</div>it's a basketball simulation game online where you take the role of a head coach at a college basketball program and recruit players, coach, hire agents, assistant coaches, set practice routines, choose your schedule, etc. Everything that a normal college coach does. You start out at division III and slowly move up as you do better, eventually climbing to the top. through trial and error you find out what works and try to outcoach/outrecruit the other coaches.It's a pretty fun game, I quit a while back after I won a national championship in division II.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Apr 9 2007, 06:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>it's a basketball simulation game online where you take the role of a head coach at a college basketball program and recruit players, coach, hire agents, assistant coaches, set practice routines, choose your schedule, etc. Everything that a normal college coach does. You start out at division III and slowly move up as you do better, eventually climbing to the top. through trial and error you find out what works and try to outcoach/outrecruit the other coaches.It's a pretty fun game, I quit a while back after I won a national championship in division II.</div>This is a web based broswer game? Give me the link! Do you play against other members online? That is what will sell it for me, other wise, meh.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (drake24 @ Apr 9 2007, 03:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is a web based broswer game? Give me the link! Do you play against other members online? That is what will sell it for me, other wise, meh.</div>yes you play against other members, but it's not live. Like you each gameplan and designate all your settings, minutes, etc, but the game is simulated in a matter of secondsit's on whatifsports.com
find players that are interested and are in the 70s-90s range of interest in your schoolhoneslty if a player has 56% interest you are not gonna get him..especially if he's a top recruit as he'll probably sign his LOI during the in-season recruitingcall them every week..send them emails here and thereif possible invite them to campus to visittry to go to all of their games and visit them at home 3 or 4 times
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Apr 9 2007, 02:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If your recruiting a player, let's say a SF and one of his top 3 'needs' is getting playing time, go through your roster and change all your SF's to different positions. This way your recruit thinks he's getting playing time and you usually get a nice boost in your recruit percentage bar. Use 'home visits' exclusively for your highest rated recruiting coach....they take 15 points, pretty heafty, so use up your home visits on your best recruiter. Phone calls aren't as important so let your secondary recruiter handle them. This helps me. Usually after 2 weeks you can see who is truely interested in your program or not. If you have 3 schorlarships and your recruiting let's say 8 players, after 2 weeks weed out the players that don't have you in their top 5, usually if your outside the top 5 after 3 weeks and clearly below other teams, they won't sign, so weed them out completely and take them off your list and move on with different players. When looking at the main recruiting page highlight the the players that have the highest percentage interest in your team and look through them...even though many of them might be 3 star or some 4 star players, so many people only actively recruit 5 star players and get burned only to have no backup, many 3 star players can be top 200 players that turn out to be pretty decent. Don't just look at that star rating, look at the # overall rating....3 star recruits go from 200 rank to 400 and thats a big difference, after the first recruiting period there are often many very good 240 rank or so players left. I've gotten nice recruiting classes with little trouble going after players that show big interest in me right away, don't fight for recruits that have a sub 65% interest in you in the beginning of the recruiting period. Your wasting your time.Also, if you only have a couple scholarships, add a couple Jr's to your recruiting list, it helps you the next season and gets that recruit interested in your school....it gives you a head start for the next season. It makes sense to use as many of your recruit points every week as possible.</div>I've been wondering this for awhile, How do you know what their top 5 is? Like is their something you click on that tells you their top 5 schools?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Apr 9 2007, 08:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>yes you play against other members, but it's not live. Like you each gameplan and designate all your settings, minutes, etc, but the game is simulated in a matter of secondsit's on whatifsports.com</div>It costs money.. It looks like per season.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (drake24 @ Apr 10 2007, 01:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It costs money.. It looks like per season. </div>that's why I quit
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dmoney @ Apr 10 2007, 02:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I've been wondering this for awhile, How do you know what their top 5 is? Like is their something you click on that tells you their top 5 schools?</div>yeah..if you have an just click on the right analog stick and it tells you their priorities, how many games you've scouted, met with them, made the phone call etc as well as their top 5 schools
