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Date: 4/19/2011 11:02:29 PM
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While labor negotiations dominated offseason news, we’ve also noticed some teams trying to plan ahead and using their scouts to look at not just this season’s draft pool, but future draft pools. While previously contact between teams and young players was only allowed after they had entered their names in the draft, now teams will be allowed more freedom in choosing which players to scout. In practice, this means that unspent scouting points will now no longer be reset during the offseason, but rather will carry over until they are used.

Does that mean that any unused scouting points this season are carried over to next season?


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181822.2 in reply to 181822.1
Date: 4/19/2011 11:05:44 PM
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That is pretty much verbatim what the last sentence of the paragraph says.

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181822.3 in reply to 181822.2
Date: 4/19/2011 11:12:28 PM
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Yeah I had to make sure, cos I'm surprised they did that.

I though the draft was suppose to be a lottery. but now you can accumulate scouting points for several seasons and spend it all in one season, thus knowing every single players skill and potential for that draft.

It's a whole knew strategy I guess.

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181822.5 in reply to 181822.3
Date: 4/19/2011 11:29:15 PM
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Sure, but to do that, you're going to have to fly blind into a previous draft or two. I think it kind of evens itself out in that aspect -- though i think that it could be beneficial to us. If you one position train, you can do 3 guys a week tops. If youre going to swap out those guys every year, they will never peak. Now, just sell off guys until you have a need, play get-lucky-draft-lotto just to get some $$, until you need some new trainees. Then you have the necessary points to laser focus.

I think it makes $5k scouting somewhat of a feasible strategy, over time.