Comments on: EA Sports NCAA Football Recruiting Guide http://www.villelink.com/2009/02/26/ea-sports-ncaa-football-recruiting-guide/ Ramblings of a computer programmer. Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:29:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://www.villelink.com/2009/02/26/ea-sports-ncaa-football-recruiting-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-9554 Brian Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:29:43 +0000 http://www.villelink.com/?p=134#comment-9554 I know that this article was writting 2 years ago, and nobody is likely to ever read this reply, or care, but im writing it anyway. its 2011 and i never bought a ps3, i just pulled the ps2 out of the closet and NCAA 09 is the best game i own right now, so i play it a lot, and have gotten really good at recruiting. The secret is training. This is the progression if you take over any team, whether they are a 1star team or a 5 star team. Year 1 Budget: 40% Discipline, 50% recruiting, 10% training. Schedule the best teams that you can guaruntee a win, if you are the worst team in the league, schedule division 2 teams, you just have to get some wins. Obviously you have to get some big dawgs during in season recruiting. The secret though is DO NOT recuit a player unless he has good or excellent discipline. If you are recruiting a player in season, as soon as he chooses his top 5 you can see his hidden bio. If he doesnt have goo or excellent discipline, drop him. Same thing during offseason recruiting, scout every player. I only recruit players from my home state to save recruiting points. Year 2 budget: 20-30% discipline 40-50% recruiting 20-30% training: everything else is the same. Year 3 budget: 10% discipline, 30% recruiting, 60% training. The key is that you dont have to sign 25 recruits. Normally you will only have to sign 13-15 players to keep a full roster. Considering you will probably sign 2-5 players in season recruiting, you may only need to sign 10 players/year to keep a full roster. With that in mind, we dont need much points in recruiting, especially if we stay at home when recruiting. Year 4 budget: 0% discipline, 20% recruiting, 80% training. We only signed good or excellent discipline recruits, so we will never have a violation. Recruiting is getting much easier because we are only signing 15 players/year and 1/3rd of those are sign in season. Keep in mind that we can sign a 2* recruit, redshirt him, train him at 80% and he will be an incredible player by his senior year, maybe even mid 90's. Dont sign 1* recruits unless you are just starting out year 1 and thats all yuou can get, they dont get much better from year to year. Ive won the National Championship on a regular basis recruiting 2*'s using this method. once you become a powerhouse and you are recruiting 4* and 5*'s using this method, its game over. I know that this article was writting 2 years ago, and nobody is likely to ever read this reply, or care, but im writing it anyway. its 2011 and i never bought a ps3, i just pulled the ps2 out of the closet and NCAA 09 is the best game i own right now, so i play it a lot, and have gotten really good at recruiting. The secret is training. This is the progression if you take over any team, whether they are a 1star team or a 5 star team.
Year 1 Budget: 40% Discipline, 50% recruiting, 10% training. Schedule the best teams that you can guaruntee a win, if you are the worst team in the league, schedule division 2 teams, you just have to get some wins. Obviously you have to get some big dawgs during in season recruiting. The secret though is DO NOT recuit a player unless he has good or excellent discipline. If you are recruiting a player in season, as soon as he chooses his top 5 you can see his hidden bio. If he doesnt have goo or excellent discipline, drop him. Same thing during offseason recruiting, scout every player. I only recruit players from my home state to save recruiting points.
Year 2 budget: 20-30% discipline 40-50% recruiting 20-30% training: everything else is the same.
Year 3 budget: 10% discipline, 30% recruiting, 60% training. The key is that you dont have to sign 25 recruits. Normally you will only have to sign 13-15 players to keep a full roster. Considering you will probably sign 2-5 players in season recruiting, you may only need to sign 10 players/year to keep a full roster. With that in mind, we dont need much points in recruiting, especially if we stay at home when recruiting.
Year 4 budget: 0% discipline, 20% recruiting, 80% training. We only signed good or excellent discipline recruits, so we will never have a violation. Recruiting is getting much easier because we are only signing 15 players/year and 1/3rd of those are sign in season. Keep in mind that we can sign a 2* recruit, redshirt him, train him at 80% and he will be an incredible player by his senior year, maybe even mid 90′s. Dont sign 1* recruits unless you are just starting out year 1 and thats all yuou can get, they dont get much better from year to year. Ive won the National Championship on a regular basis recruiting 2*’s using this method. once you become a powerhouse and you are recruiting 4* and 5*’s using this method, its game over.

]]> By: Derek http://www.villelink.com/2009/02/26/ea-sports-ncaa-football-recruiting-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Derek Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:55:06 +0000 http://www.villelink.com/?p=134#comment-257 I have coming up perhaps the biggest game of my six-season Navy franchise. Having heeded your advice, I now have five talented recruits on the line. I have scheduled five activities for each for when they visit, and every one of them will most certainly sign with me if we win - God help us if we don't. We are playing Notre Dame, who's ranked third in the country. I am presently ranked sixty-sixth. Every season, Navy and Notre Dame have battled it out, Navy winning about half, Notre Dame winning half, in all. I believe we have won the past consecutive three. It's always a toss-up. Every time we've played them it has been close throughout all four quarters. This is the most momentous game Navy will ever experience. I have coming up perhaps the biggest game of my six-season Navy franchise. Having heeded your advice, I now have five talented recruits on the line. I have scheduled five activities for each for when they visit, and every one of them will most certainly sign with me if we win – God help us if we don’t.

We are playing Notre Dame, who’s ranked third in the country. I am presently ranked sixty-sixth. Every season, Navy and Notre Dame have battled it out, Navy winning about half, Notre Dame winning half, in all. I believe we have won the past consecutive three. It’s always a toss-up. Every time we’ve played them it has been close throughout all four quarters.

This is the most momentous game Navy will ever experience.

]]> By: Derek http://www.villelink.com/2009/02/26/ea-sports-ncaa-football-recruiting-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Derek Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:55:22 +0000 http://www.villelink.com/?p=134#comment-248 This article is terrific. I didn't think I would get the answers I was seeking. Thank you! I have a franchise going with the Navy Midshipmen in NCAA 08, and although I've really built them into a very good team, my "team discipline" has declined drastically and my academic status has dropped two stars (so 4 out of 6 now). I am hoping you can help me restore the honorable prestige which once distinguished my team from every other. To help discern a possible cause, here is what I had done: During one particular off-season, I had docked 2% from "team discipline" and added that percentage to "recruiting". I didn't think I would need all the "discipline points" I was getting with the original 2%, for, in previous seasons, I would always have points left over. It turned out I did need those points because, at the time, I was not thinking about player discipline levels so much during recruiting. The following season my "team discipline" incurred a minor drop, degrading from an A+ to a B. Not incorrigible; however, this off-season, in hope of rectifying my "team discipline" grade, I returned that 2% from "recruiting" to "team discipline", and that in addendum to my acquisitions of disciplined players. But this season, much to my dismay, my "team discipline" grade has dropped to a D, and my academic rating has dropped one star (4 out of 6 now). What is going on? This article is terrific. I didn’t think I would get the answers I was seeking. Thank you!

I have a franchise going with the Navy Midshipmen in NCAA 08, and although I’ve really built them into a very good team, my “team discipline” has declined drastically and my academic status has dropped two stars (so 4 out of 6 now). I am hoping you can help me restore the honorable prestige which once distinguished my team from every other. To help discern a possible cause, here is what I had done: During one particular off-season, I had docked 2% from “team discipline” and added that percentage to “recruiting”. I didn’t think I would need all the “discipline points” I was getting with the original 2%, for, in previous seasons, I would always have points left over. It turned out I did need those points because, at the time, I was not thinking about player discipline levels so much during recruiting. The following season my “team discipline” incurred a minor drop, degrading from an A+ to a B. Not incorrigible; however, this off-season, in hope of rectifying my “team discipline” grade, I returned that 2% from “recruiting” to “team discipline”, and that in addendum to my acquisitions of disciplined players. But this season, much to my dismay, my “team discipline” grade has dropped to a D, and my academic rating has dropped one star (4 out of 6 now). What is going on?

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