Recruiting Tutorial

[alexfall862]

Walkthough in Video Form:

(one change since recording is that threshold for leading school is 50% not 75%)

 

Dev Diary deep dive on recruiting mechanics: https://www.simfba.com/index.php?threads/41-recruiting.2354/

 

In order to receive your recruiting sheet you must watch/read the tutorial, and fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/MkhZ83xFUonU37uA7

 

Ping me on discord if there are any issues.

 

- alexfall862

 

Intro

Recruiting will be a weekly activity, with actions taking place whenever you'd like during the week, but progressions occurring Tuesday nights for a Wednesday to Wednesday recruiting week.

 

The recruiting season will last 20 weeks. The first week of recruiting will take place from the Wednesday prior to Week 1 to the Wednesday just prior to Week 2. This means that the recruiting season should wrap up Wednesday following the last bowl games.

 

Recruiting is done by assigning recruiting 'points' out of your weekly recruiting budget to a player. When a player has collected enough points, they will pass a threshold and make a 'commitment decision' to eligible schools.

 

In order to be an 'eligible school' when the commitment is assessed, you must have a standing scholarship offer to the player and be in their leading schools list.

 

Totals

You can recruit a total of 25 players, and you can offer a total of 40 players. Any players that decide to commit to your school beyond the first 25 are culled by class ranking. It is possible to have more than 25 players commit following Week 20 as you might the last week with 15 recruits, but 20 standing offers. If more than 10 commit, they'll be removed by ranking starting with the worst recruits first.

 

Accessing Recruiting Form

To take recruiting actions (assigning points and ), you will need access to a team specific google sheets link, to get that sheet, follow the instructions above and fill out this form after watching/reading the rest of this post: https://forms.gle/MkhZ83xFUonU37uA7

 

You and the recruiting admin (me) and the only two people with access to your form. If you see anyone else accessing your form, that's something you need to let admins know about.

 

Form Overview

The recruiting form has 3 tabs. 2 are completely uneditable (Master Sheet, User Info) and exist for informational purposes. The 3rd, Our Recruits, allows you to interact by entering playerIDs to make and coordinate recruiting actions.

 

Master Sheet

This is where all the recruits in the sim are are listed. It also shows your school's affinity bonus eligibility. You can filter this list for easier searching through Data -> Filter View in the google sheet options. What is also displayed here and in the Our Recruits tab is the 'Leading Schools' column. This column shows which schools are currently in contention for a recruit.

 

Once a player commits, their row in the master sheet has conditional formatting that marks their row as red, for a visual cue that you may not want to recruit them. Most useful in this form is the ability to find players, and their playerIDs (column G).

 

Our Recruits

This is the tab where you can recruit players and offer scholarships. Many users in the testing phase also used the ability to add players themselves to keep track of their committed players in this tab.

 

You add players by typing their playerID into the blue column (column A) and the rest should auto-populate. Once it's populated, you'll have access to a hyperlink that takes you to a google form for spending weekly points on a recruit (column B) or offering/revoking a scholarship (column C).

 

You can offer a player a scholarship whenever you'd like, it has no connections to point spending for the week, but you do have a cap of 40 current offers at a time. Once that cap is hit, you'll need to revoke offers to be able to send new ones out. Once you revoke a scholarship, you cannot successfully offer that player again.

 

In addition to a repeat of the recruit info in the Master Sheet (including the leading schools and commitment status), there are also school dependent columns to tell you how many points you've spent on players that week and how many points you've spent on a recruit overall.

 

User Info

This tab is dedicated to team specific info. It will be different for each user. Here you can keep track of your points spending, offers, and the recruiting week. You can also reference this page for your static affinities.

 

A Note on the Google Sheets Interface

Since this is all living on Google Sheets, it will sometimes take a bit of load, the refreshing isn't instantaneous. When you load, check for the green loading bar in the top right of the sheet.

 

If you are having trouble with the sheet, refresh once and if that doesn't cure it, just give it a little time. Load it up and make a cup of coffee. If it doesn't update within 15 minutes, it's worth pinging an admin (me) about it, but not before that.

 

Problems with the page tend to show up when there's a lot of activity, so please do not expect that doing all of your recruiting Tuesday night is going to be a delay-free experience.

Edited June 21, 2021 by alexfall862

[Kirby]

This is amazing work, wow! Fantastic video also @alexfall862

[Bingo415]

From a Test Recruiter: it's REALLY important to let the sheet LOAD with your weekly points used. I found it easier to spend ~35 points, then wait for a bit for the sheet to load, to really know how much I had left.

 

thanks for all this, Alex!

[kwheele]

Thank you for this great walkthrough

[Minnow]

I bookmarked this page for the future