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Reproduced with kind permission from Jeff The Bear:
Long long post coming up...get your reading glasses on people!
Right then, there’s been lots of talk about the YA, and the ability (or lack thereof) of predicting the csr/worth of any given youth pulled. I firmly believe you can predict (and will go on to prove it below)…but before we start, there’s 3 very important and painfully obvious points:
1.You must have the player in the right position in your YA. Extraordinarily difficult I know, but it makes the difference between pulling a 20,000csr player and pulling a 12,000csr player given he same time in the YA. Simply put, if you have a potential flanker he’ll train up quicker at a flanking position than he would if you tried him at fullback.
2. All games and subsequent Reporter’s Summary’s have to have been done at WNWIM. You’re stupid if you’re not doing this already, but it’s worth mentioning.
3. You must be investing $50,000 per week into the academy
Next are the rules by which you pull.
1. Leave any youth in the academy team for 6-8 weeks min (More is always better and remember, at WNWIM and in the correct position)
2. Check any given players 3 best Reporter’s Summary’s in that time
3. Pick the best player who conforms to the grading as worked out below.
4. Very very few players get better than Impressive (To Potential). This is the practical upper limit (You can get better, as we’ll see below, but they will have had to be have been scouted high, and left in the academy for a season +)
Now I’m going to go through a handful of pulls from my youth academy to show the pattern at work and how to predict:
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-Joseph Cadwaladr (Centre/wing)
Reputable (Below potential)
Admirable (Below potential)
Impressive (To potential)
Obviously an impressive player
Finally got promoted @ 22068csr
Quote:
-Todd Kennedy (Lock)
Reputable (Below potential)
Reputable (Below potential)
Decent (Below potential)
Which made Kennedy a probable ‘Admirable’ player
Finally got promoted @ 17332csr
Quote:
-Aidan Edwards (Centre)
Admirable (Below potential)
Impressive (To potential)
Reputable (Below potential)
Again, another Impressive player
Finally got promoted @ 19106csr
Quote:
-Rhys Bufton (Flanker/No.
Impressive (To potential)
Reputable (Below potential)
Admirable (Below potential)
Another Impressive player. Yes, my academy is the shit!
Finally got promoted @ 21036csr
Quote:
-Noah Gethin (Flanker)
Impressive (Below potential)
Admirable (Below potential)
Impressive (To potential)
My one and only ever “Impressive (Below Potential)” on his last week before being pulled meant he came out at a Princely rating.
Finally got promoted @ 25083csr
Quote:
-Liam Rodders (Flanker)
Admirable (Below potential)
Impressive (To potential)
Admirable (Below potential)
Yet another Imrpessive player
Finally got promoted @ 17511csr
Quote:
- Sebastian Lavelle (No.
Satisfactory (Below potential)
Decent (Below potential)
This final one is important with regards to the first point made. He was 117kg, 191cm, and looked every bit the backrower. He had some ropey Summary’s, and given that I didn’t have another player who I wanted to pull, I thought I’d pull him to make way for someone else. However, when he got pulled he had great back stats (attack, speed, handling) along side some decent flanker stats. He know plays fullback for me and is a great all-rounder.
Moral of the story being that no matter how well you try and pick a players position, it will bite you on the arse now and again (Hopefully in a good way like it did for me here)
Finally got promoted @ 18849csr
And before anyone calls bullshit, check these players out, all bar one is still in my squad and all were pulled in the past couple of months.
So, in summary…I predicted all of the above to within 3000csr at the time (With the last one being an obvious exception), and with every new pull, the predictions are being refined. Remember, “Something (Below potential)” can mean anything, so “Something (To potential)” is always better to go on.
From the above I have come to the conclusion that:
Reputable rating in YA = 12,500csr to somewhere undefined below
Admirable Rating in YA = 12,500csr to 17,500csr
Impressive Rating in YA = 17,500csr to 25,000csr
Princely Rating in YA = 25,000csr to somewhere undefined above
(These are not set in stone, and are subject to change if any new data arises)
