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Request For: College All Sports
Request Title: Cut Players to Transfer List
Description
I would like to see players who are cut show up in the non-region transfer list. I think that would help balance the talent pool a bit, and it would create greater depth in deeper recruiting rounds. In real life, players who are pushed out the door at higher levels end up transferring down quite a bit, whether to a lower level D-I or to a non D-I. Obviously we only have D-I in this sim, but the ones who aren't D-I caliber just wouldn't be recruited.
I've seen some people cut players who are demanding a scholarship or they'll transfer (though that's been a while). Even if not malicious like that, I've certainly cut players from a 20-prestige CBEL team that would be highly useful in Tier III or even Tier II.
If a player is cut, he would go to the transfer list after the next day's events (to keep a double-dipper from cutting a player from his better team at 11:28 and being the only invite with his lower team). If round 2 recruiting has already run, the players who are cut show up on the transfer list at init and stay there all year maybe? I would also suggest that the current "graduate without scholarship" r-Jr's should all transfer instead. If nobody takes them, nobody takes them.
Category: New Feature
Status: Declined (last updated Aug 31 16:59:38 2025
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Priority: Declined
Admin Notes
I'm going to turn this down, primarily for a game-play reason. Most cuts happen after the recruiting list is created during season initialization and coaches start submitting invitations. So, while a Tier 1 walk-on who is cut could be useful for a Tier 2/3 school, they wouldn't show up on the recruiting list until after most recruits are signed.
Submitted Apr 20 12:53:48 2020
by Eric O
Coaches In Favor of Change: Eric O, Stephen Thompson, Pythagoras A, Ryan Amlin, Luke McCann, Jason Kidd, Daniel Hilsgen, Ryan Amlin II, Gregor Ellis
Coaches Opposed to Change: Dagger Dave DD, Captain Morgan, Christopher Thiebaut
Comments
Stephen Thompson (Apr 21 04:52:01 2020
): My only question whether there should be a minimum talent to make the transfer portal. Nobody wants all of the F/F walks that the tier 3 teams cut in abundance.
Dagger Dave DD (May 30 09:47:20 2020
): I would only agree if the cut players were C/C rated or better. Otherwise, no. (Too much junk in the trunk.)
Pythagoras A (Aug 3 17:05:06 2020
): I also agree with the point of not sending all of the FF players there as well. FD, DD, and above can still be useful for tiers 2 and 3.
Daniel Hilsgen (Jun 5 14:20:07 2022
): As long as the cutoff doesn't add too much junk to the trunk.
Eric O (Feb 2 11:56:53 2023
): Dave, I would suggest DD as the cutoff, not CC. There are plenty of DC recruits that are immensely useful to a Tier III or even a Tier II that I'll cut as a Tier I.
Updating - I think DEL is out of balance with real life anyway. The most recent season of CBEL, the ACC rating as a whole was 1.581. In dolphin ratings back to 2002, the highest conference rating was just over 1.4. Since 2002 there have been two seasons, total, where a conference with an auto-bid was worse than -1.4 (2 years of the SWAC and one year of the "Great West" which was never a real conference and never had an automatic bid). This year in CBEL there were two. Many, if not most, years of the RL Dolphin ratings, the worst conference was roughly -1.2. Half of Tier 3 conferences were below that mark in CBEL this year. I get that it'll never be a perfect replica of real life, but the difference between a decent Tier 1 and a decent Tier 3 is significantly more in CBEL than in real life. And while I'm not doing a deep dive on other college sports today, I think it would show similar results. I don't think we need to go all in trying to replicate the RL transfer portal, but the team quality bell curve is smoother in real life than it is in CBEL and I think this would help nudge things in that direction.
Gregor Ellis (Oct 13 19:51:00 2023
): I agree fully. This shouldn't distort significantly the talent pool distribution created each season as most of the cuts are from the walk-ons pool anyway.
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