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Originally Posted by MathBandit
To make sure I understand correctly, is your "Draft Board" shortlist 'just' every player that meets all the minimums and has a High/Very High rating? As in, do you prune further when deciding to put someone on the Draft Board, or just lump all the playable players there and wait until Draft Day to figure out who you want from that list?
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Every player that meets the minimums, gets scouted to H-VH, is put on the actual Draft Board shortlist. It is not hard to get everyone to that scout accuracy level over 75 days so, everyone does end up on the board.
Then during the draft you can filter for "draft board = Yes" and you have your entire board up in the draft to select from.
You can then also switch that "yes" to "no" and have all of the players in the draft that are not on your board visible minus your board. Even if you don't specify these guys to be scouted they still are and you may be able to pull out an unexpected player as you go along. This is something I have done in the later rounds as my board gets picked over. Though picks I have taken that were not on my board are few and far between it is still there as a way to go back to see if there is someone you may have missed. But by this time
I am into players that "pick and hope" whether on my board or not.
Almost forgot. You can also add a "shortlist" column to your view, use no filters, and see all of the players with a "yes" or "no" in said column. This way you could sort by whatever means you choose and see your Board players compared to all others in the same table.
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Originally Posted by MathBandit
And sorry - one more followup. Do you find that with your criteria for hitters you miss out on players who either have for example a bad Eye or Avoid Ks but are otherwise great hitters? Or defensive wizards at SS/CF who have low Power (or again low Eye or Avoid Ks) but a bat that plays fine alongside GG defense?
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Sure, that does happen. But as in my answer above there is still the opportunity to review players not on my board. Having said that I rarely make an exception on my acceptable skills but, a 3 in control is going to be a "no-go" for me 100% of the time. I hate walks. In late rounds I have taken guys that throw 101+ even if movement is below my specs on a flyer
Or maybe a guy with power potential of 7+. I mean if I'm at round 18+ it's not like the guys on my list are sure things.
The main thing for me is going in with a list of 300 or so players. Everyone of those players has a skill I value (not elite, MLB minimum quality will do) and the rest meet a minimum I can tolerate.