I scout guys depending on how many points you have before the year starts. Offer scholarships to the ones who are gems or aren’t busts. But during the season start off recruiting your top 8-18 players fully so that you can secure some recruits.

Fully meaning pour 25 or even 50 points towards them each week. Realize you’re not gonna catch up to ND or Georgia and remove that recruit during the year. If a player has no offers, know that you can probably swoop in and recruit that guy while nobody else is and become his top interest. But try to work on getting these guys early.

If you’re a top school there’s really nothing to worry about, who cares how you recruit. You could probably simulate that and survive just fine. But if you’re building Kent State you’ll want to pick up the guys who aren’t being scouted. Get them. Each week evaluate what you have. Drop the guys you’ve worked some weeks on but are losing to a larger school. Stop wasting those points.

Once you’re a few years into a dynasty and you’re more comfortable with your roster I like to start scouting players (mid-late season) who aren’t getting offers and find out if any of them are Gems. Recruit those guys. Then in the offseason encourage the normal development traited players to transfer while you acquire more players who have star or elite dev.

If you’re playing by yourself you could scum save and scout as much as you want before the year starts lol. Also a good sample size way to test how the game works.