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I need some advice on a potential draft pick... I have the 1st pick in my Utopian League and have 2 players that I am interested in but just not sure which one to make my number 1 .... so any advice would be great... both players have nearly similar box scores which makes it more difficult to choose as well.... let me know what you guys think....

Player A - 19 / 6’6” / 5 Star - 5 Potential / A -

Player B - 18 / 6’4” / 5 Star - 4 Potential / A +

I usually train SG / SF Hybrid type players so the height really isn’t that much of an issue... any expert opinions are welcomed... thanks in advance for any help..... Mad Scientist

Last edited by Mad Scientist at 8/8/2019 10:07:55 PM

Potential of player A is tempting but i would go for player B. 18 years old player always makes more money if you want sell and 18 years old will be trained more effectively.

Player B has A+ for skills. That + means a lot. His skills will be nice and A's is A-. The lowest for As for skills. İf they both has the same one for skills maybe i would pick player A but in this case i would definitely go for player B.

If player A was A +, I would go for him. 19 year old players with A+ can be really good now that they can have strong skills. Because he isn't A +, I would %100 pick player B.

My opinion would be pick B, if you are planing on training anything you draft / pick A if you are most likely going to sell him.

Other than that - 5 potential could be MVP-HOF, but the chance of getting anything above MVP is kinda low to make a profit out of draft overall. The fact, that B is 18yo and A+ makes him a better prospect, if A is MVP only.

Thank you all so far for the feedback, it has been most helpful, It has given me more things to consider to base my overall pick on, I appreciate all your valuable insight....

so this season i looked at all the skills of all the draft players in my draft and i must say the difference between A+ and A- are the only salary.

This is not correct.

Even in this small data set A+ has average of 57.8 TSP; and A- has average 55, which is lower. It might be exception also and the actual difference might be higher than 2.8 TSP.

Grades A- A A+ and others reflect player salaries. The higher the skills the higher the salaries are, simple logic. I agree the A-, hell even B- might be better player than some A+, but it is very hard to imagine player A- having like 65 skillspoints, it must be very specific skillsets; while A+ is totally doable. It is like saying dont look at card while playing poker, you havent to fold if you have been dealt with 2-2; you can still hit 4 kind agains like 3 kings lol. It is possible, but improbable.

I had my dataset back in season 9-18 or something; A+ had ~46-47 TSP average while A- had 37. Now the skillspoints are inflated, but tendency shall remain. The higher TSP the higher the overall in overall. Sure it might be exceptions like for Centers, they can be trees or SF's they can be heavily shot and RB based ones.

But players have correlation on their listed position and "tree-iness". It is usually very high tsp if low plyer is listed at center or pf and tall as pg.

Last edited by Vilkai [LTU NT] at 8/11/2019 5:27:50 AM

First one will be long gone, since I'm drafting before you.