Use them when you have one of the top 2-3 picks. 8th is too high, you just need 1 or 2 of the 7 drafting ahead of you to select the 5/5 prospects and you wasted your points. In most drafts there are 1 or 2 18yo 5/5 players at best and the odds of someone with the 1st or 2nd pick not scouting are low.
I have selected 2 18yo HoF 5/5 in the past 10 seasons with the 2nd pick. The first time was with the old demotion rules and I won the relegation, the second time was with the new rules: I got the 2nd pick and avoided the boycott, but I didn't manage to stay up (although I thought I had a very good chance). Getting the 2nd pick without demoting and triggering a boycott is quite hard in D1, but probably less so if you are in a less competitive league (i.e. D3 in a very large nation or D2 in a medium nation).
Last edited by Lemonshine at 07/26/2019 07:04:41