Recruiting in NCAA 13 - What would you like to see?

[JeffHCross]

what if instead of ranges, they just stole the page from madden's scouting and it would just tell you that "this player's stamina rating is 85" or "this player's speed rating is 92" or something like that?

It would obviously be less effort/impact, but could still require a significant amount of changing, unless you allowed the CPU to "cheat" and didn't force them to scout. Otherwise you're talking about a significant change to the interface, the flow, and to the AI logic.

Not that it should be a reason for them not to do it. I'm just saying that I have tons of ideas, but no idea of how much of the bath water we can throw out at the same time. It's easy to just list ideas without regard for what they cost .... I'm just not wired in a way that I can do that anymore. I just see budget spreadsheets and design documents floating through my head

( Not that it should stop you guys, or me, for that matter, from throwing out ideas. I'm just saying that I just can't do as simply anymore )

No way the #1 recruit in the game would go to Missouri

Been waiting all day to come on here and post that. There are no circumstances that I can think of where a #1 kid, even from Missouri, would commit to Mizzou in the game, over UT and Oklahoma. Nor come down to a final two of Missouri and Arkansas.

I've said in other threads that one thing I want to see is a "Dealbreaker" type thing where some recruits treat certain pitches as Absolutes. There are some things they absolutely want, and some things they absolutely don't. Ideally, I'd want to see it where if you try to pitch a recruit with a "Most + Dealbreaker" with a C- or whatever, then you'll actually lose points. It wouldn't quite work under the Russian Roulette style of recruiting, but it still could. Either way, the main point is that right now there's very little harm in hitting a "Most" - "C+". It doesn't give you as much points as a "Most" - "A+", obviously, but it still gives you something. I think that needs to change where top schools can't just spam every topic, but you actually have to line up with a recruit's desires.

Which brings me to the second point, or really with DGB, the main point. "Most" needs to mean more. If you line up a "Most" and "A+", like Mizzou and Arky would have had with "Proximity to Home" as A+/B+ (which is another topic for another time), you should absolutely be able to pull away from schools that can't pull that. Partially due to the roulette system, and partially due to the point values associated with it, you can't pull away (or make up ground quickly) in the current game with just one pitch lining up. You have to be solid across the board, with many pitches. And that inherently gives a Texas or Oklahoma or Ohio State an advantage in in-game recruiting. I'm not saying that those schools don't have that advantage in real life, but their true advantage, in my opinion, is that they have breadth. They can take 20 guys who have ten different #1 priorities and probably line up solidly on all ten of those priorities. But when you're Mizzou, and you have a guy who wants to stay home, you should be able to use that enough to make it count. And unless you're lucky enough to hit "Proximity to Home" on every call, that's simply not going to happen. Personally, I don't think returning to the old Spam style would work either, because the Texas/Oklahoma/Ohio State advantage was still true there too. But the point spread for different combinations should be increased, so the ability to pull away, or make up ground, under the right circumstances is increased.