Long, lively thread on the impact of Impact on recruiting
http://forum.drivethelane.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1213
14 pages as of now, more than I can catch up to. Can anyone summarize?
ETA: tons of opinion, but this is the last post by kmoney regarding how a player's self eval helps bad teams
http://forum.drivethelane.com/viewto...1213&start=100
Re: Impact preference odds
Postby kmoney » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:08 pm
Some great posts, thanks everyone.
I think we're in a pretty good place. Just a matter of degree, not kind. The teams you would expect to have an edge in impact do, but it's too small of an effect.
Of course I don't want to discourage new players and coaches of bad teams. But I agree very much with the idea some have posted that if you are coaching a bad team, it is quite unrealistic (ie in real life) to expect blue chip prospects to want to play for you. Alabama A&M and Northern Arizona have virtually zero chance at top players. The game already helps out here much more than in real life just by the possibility of finding a clear lead (unlikely) or a small tie (somewhat likely). And you can target the +3 types and build your way up.
My initial reaction to the player perception thing was to kind of get rid of it. But unless I'm thinking about it wrong, some mystery of self-perception actually helps bad teams, right? Super rough chart:
Ability...Perception...Good Team...Bad Team
Good .....Good ........Good .......Exc
Good .....Poor ........Poor .......Exc
Poor .....Good ........Fair- ......Fair+
Poor .....Poor ........None .......Poor
So a good team takes an extra risk recruiting a good player that prefers to make an impact. If all good players knew they were good, any self-evaluation factor would hurt bad teams. Totally ignoring good players making an impact on good teams strikes me as too unrealistic.
I'll run it with some actual numbers though and see how everything looks. Once I have things where I like them a bit more, I'll make any necessary updates to the instructions, and we can all review. We can continue the discussion here in the meantime of course.