Posted by dvgagz on 7/28/2014 11:53:00 PM (view original):
Not sure about Low, but Great is rare.  I've only seen 2 in 8 seasons.  Others have reported similar findings. 

Fatigue is in play and has been for some time now.  I think your sub rate is a personal choice.  If you want your backups to get more snaps/playing time, then set your starters sub level at a higher rate like 90 or 95.  if you only want your starters playing, then by all means, set the sub level at 60. 

Posted by horndorf on 2/13/2014 10:39:00 AM (view original):
Not going to worry about it, thanks though. I have decided to stop playing.  The new format has no appeal to me and in all actuality it's not even true to real college recruiting which allows for recruits to be recruited at any age per say and attend official visits and non official visits way before their senior seasons end.  Recruiting should be fair to all involved not having to compete against sims that already have a recruit green at 1201pm on the first day.  We should be able to recruit prior and attempt to get greens also to make it fair and balanced. 

3.0 has really turned me off and I have lost the desire to play, love the soccer though so I'll still be there.  Thanks!!

I have noticed something about recruiting that is mostly common sense, I suppose.  Still, I managed to miss it for several seasons.  I built a team from bad to decent, then got lucky and took over a NC-contending program.  As a general rule, I did not battle for players when trying to move from the non-playoff to playoff level.  I just moved on to my second or sometimes my third choice.  Once I was in the playoffs, I still did pretty much the same thing, especially if I was competing for the same recruit with a Top Ten team.

It seems much of my problem keeping a team at NC-level is making the transition from a mindset of  "I don't want to battle them" to one of  "they don't want to battle me."  Several times I have backed off a recruit that was considering another school, and offered a scholarship to my #2 guy...only to find out that the other team had done EXACTLY THE SAME THING, and the guy we both wanted reverted to undecided and later signed with a team that had the patience to wait for the smoke to clear before finalizing their scholarship offers.  

Learning patience is a tough thing to do, for most of us anyway.
 

Saw a strange one today, and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever seen this.  

Recruiting in Wilkinson, signing started at 12:01 today. I'm in D-II, and two really strange things happened that I'd never seen before:

1)  A WR  in my vision signed with a SIM AI school on the first signing cycle.  I thought SIM AI signings usually happened on the second or third day of signing.

2)  Second weird thing, same guy - he signed with Oregon State, a D-1A school.  I understand that some really good D-II recruits may sign with D-1AA schools, and I've seen that before.  But, I've never seen a guy sign two levels up.