2024-03-20
Article par: dwyane3
Hi everyone,
drafts have just finished and we would like to share the draft preparation process behind a few teams.
smart0eddie WL3.2 - 500 credits
The draft order of my team is determined by what my team need and what my team may get.
Considering my team would have 4 centers next seasons, I would pay more attention to the forwards and guards. There are a few 3-pointers with high RT and some with decent RT but cheap salary. They could be a good supplement to my teams outside scoring and defense.
However, the draft position also matters. Since I’m a little tight in budget this season, I didn’t invest much on scout. Taken the bonus points for the promotion teams into account, my team is the 13-th place in draft, as expected. Placing in 13 is quite high but has little chance to grab the best players. Teams in higher place are very likely to pick the good players before my team’s turn. Therefore, I may need to pick some young players.
Thankfully, there’s a plenty of them. As my youth team lacks centers, I would prefer to pick young center and than forwards or guards.
Overall, I would like to place a few good players with high RT that can play on my main team at higher order, hoping having chances to pick them.
Then following a few young potentials. In that cases, I could pull some of the players on my youth team to the main team. And last, I may pick some decent players with low salary.
If in any cases, all of the listed players are picked by the other team, I may decide to give up draft picks this season and save the draft points for the future.
Season 97 choice: Augustas Gamulis
jiasyuan WL 3.3 - 500 credits
After checking one round, I found that WL3.3 has a lot of seedlings and young players, and the combat power is very scarce, especially the low post. After the draft list came out, I started to search for the low post players in the restricted market, and I finally found a decent player for next season day 59.
Therefore, I started focusing on the PG position. This draft list has a lot of PGs that are ready to play now, which is very important for me as I prepare to move up to WL3.3. My goal next season is mainly to avoid relegation, so strong players are very much needed.
Since I don’t know where I will be in the draft, Ping Cuī, Aistis Dudenas, Saverio Giovannelli are all my target players.
I hope I can successfully select one of them, otherwise I will have to worry about the lineup at the beginning of the season.
Speaking of the draft, I would like to give you a suggestion. I hope that the draft player list will appear at the same time as the restricted market, so that it will be better for players who want to operate the next season's list.
It would be kinder, and speaking from my experience this season, I missed a lot of low post players in the early days of the restricted market.
Looking back, no one even bid for these low post players. I originally expected to select big man in the draft, but found that there were too few of them in the draft list (it could even be said to be none). Then I looked for bigs in the restricted markets, there were not many players I was interested in.
If the draft list can be brought forward to coincide with the restricted market, the lineup for next season can be better arranged.
Season 97 choice: Aistis Dudenas
dwyane3
This season my poor investment to the scouts resulted in me being dead-last in the draft order. I pay the price for having expensive players on my roster, including a couple of youth players I paid full 11- 20k Euro weekly salary for their 9 or 10 potential. One could say, that instead of drafting them, I pay their salary. :)
As I still have very limited budget, I gave a green light only to the youth players. However, by pick #19 Samson Savill I knew that there are no more options for me. Anyone below 290 peak RT would not get me excited enough to pick them.
My last year's pick Botao Jin was close to getting fired at the beginning of this season due to rather poor performance. However, he agreed to play one more year for a low salary with a hoping of proving he belong in the big leagues. :)
What seems to be a growing tendency - the top teams in the drafts are becoming even more frugal with their draft points. First 5 teams in WL1 draft have not picked anybody, in WL2.2 - first 3 and WL 2.1 was an exception where volvo60 used their first pick for Fausto Pujol who scored 14 points in his first WL game. It will be interesting to see whether this tendency remains in the future.
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drafts have just finished and we would like to share the draft preparation process behind a few teams.
smart0eddie WL3.2 - 500 creditsThe draft order of my team is determined by what my team need and what my team may get.
Considering my team would have 4 centers next seasons, I would pay more attention to the forwards and guards. There are a few 3-pointers with high RT and some with decent RT but cheap salary. They could be a good supplement to my teams outside scoring and defense.
However, the draft position also matters. Since I’m a little tight in budget this season, I didn’t invest much on scout. Taken the bonus points for the promotion teams into account, my team is the 13-th place in draft, as expected. Placing in 13 is quite high but has little chance to grab the best players. Teams in higher place are very likely to pick the good players before my team’s turn. Therefore, I may need to pick some young players.
Thankfully, there’s a plenty of them. As my youth team lacks centers, I would prefer to pick young center and than forwards or guards.
Overall, I would like to place a few good players with high RT that can play on my main team at higher order, hoping having chances to pick them.
Then following a few young potentials. In that cases, I could pull some of the players on my youth team to the main team. And last, I may pick some decent players with low salary.
If in any cases, all of the listed players are picked by the other team, I may decide to give up draft picks this season and save the draft points for the future.
Season 97 choice: Augustas Gamulis
jiasyuan WL 3.3 - 500 creditsAfter checking one round, I found that WL3.3 has a lot of seedlings and young players, and the combat power is very scarce, especially the low post. After the draft list came out, I started to search for the low post players in the restricted market, and I finally found a decent player for next season day 59.
Therefore, I started focusing on the PG position. This draft list has a lot of PGs that are ready to play now, which is very important for me as I prepare to move up to WL3.3. My goal next season is mainly to avoid relegation, so strong players are very much needed.
Since I don’t know where I will be in the draft, Ping Cuī, Aistis Dudenas, Saverio Giovannelli are all my target players.
I hope I can successfully select one of them, otherwise I will have to worry about the lineup at the beginning of the season.
Speaking of the draft, I would like to give you a suggestion. I hope that the draft player list will appear at the same time as the restricted market, so that it will be better for players who want to operate the next season's list.
It would be kinder, and speaking from my experience this season, I missed a lot of low post players in the early days of the restricted market.
Looking back, no one even bid for these low post players. I originally expected to select big man in the draft, but found that there were too few of them in the draft list (it could even be said to be none). Then I looked for bigs in the restricted markets, there were not many players I was interested in.
If the draft list can be brought forward to coincide with the restricted market, the lineup for next season can be better arranged.
Season 97 choice: Aistis Dudenas
dwyane3This season my poor investment to the scouts resulted in me being dead-last in the draft order. I pay the price for having expensive players on my roster, including a couple of youth players I paid full 11- 20k Euro weekly salary for their 9 or 10 potential. One could say, that instead of drafting them, I pay their salary. :)
As I still have very limited budget, I gave a green light only to the youth players. However, by pick #19 Samson Savill I knew that there are no more options for me. Anyone below 290 peak RT would not get me excited enough to pick them.
My last year's pick Botao Jin was close to getting fired at the beginning of this season due to rather poor performance. However, he agreed to play one more year for a low salary with a hoping of proving he belong in the big leagues. :)
What seems to be a growing tendency - the top teams in the drafts are becoming even more frugal with their draft points. First 5 teams in WL1 draft have not picked anybody, in WL2.2 - first 3 and WL 2.1 was an exception where volvo60 used their first pick for Fausto Pujol who scored 14 points in his first WL game. It will be interesting to see whether this tendency remains in the future.
Do you want to get published and win rewards as well? Share at least a 200 words post about the best trade you ever made. The best writers will be featured in the game news and rewarded up to 2.000 credits.
Have a good read!
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