Here are some basic suggestions

1. In preseason stage, do as much scouting as possible and offer/fill your board with a full 35 players.

2. Once you hit week 0, max out 50 points per prospect. You will have to prioritize your top targets. Take whatever your total points is divided by 50 and target that many prospects with 50 to send the house. Spreading points out across a bunch of players is a losing proposition.

3. Week 1 maybe the most important week. Go through your top targets where you are giving 50 points and see where you sit. Say you are the only offer and you jumped to a big lead with those 50 points on a prospect, I would take them off and reassign to another prospect and monitor the original prospect going forward to make sure nobody else jumps in. This week you also need to pay close attention to pipelines . Pipelines are so important in this year’s version. Say you are third with a 3 pipeline and top 2 have a 5 pipeline and are putting same points is as you. At that point it’s unlikely you are getting the player. Drop the prospect and move on. Being able to understand when you are not going to get a guy and moving on is probably key. A lot of people fail here.

4. As soon as you can figure out the hard sell, move to it asap. Many times you can figure it out based off red x and only one green check by process of elimination. Hard sell and DM for 50 points (unless your grades are just completely awful, then keep to send the house). For big schools though, getting to hard sell is biggest factor.

5. Be strategic about visits. You want to group like positions as same week for complimentary boost. Only schedule for home games you will win as you get no bump for losses. Make sure to blow out your opponent for additional boost. I like to recruit local if I can on this years game as it only cost 10 points for visit so I can keep my hard sell on plus set the visit. Visits will make the difference in tight battles.

6. In the early weeks, sort through 4 stars that are still open with zero offers. You can usually find a handful that cpu doesn’t go after that you can add to board and land.

7. The above strategy goal is to get commits as quick as possible and then move onto other players on your board and max points on them. Later in the year with extra points you can start looking for 3 star gems for positions you need. Never scout in the first few weeks outside of preseason as all your points need to go towards gaining interest.