In EA Sports College Football 25, you can increase the influence gain that recruits receive on a visit by scheduling complimentary visits for other recruits during the same week.
An example of that is if you had a quarterback coming in for a visit during week 3, you might schedule a wide receiver, tight end, or an offensive lineman to come in for a visit that same week and because of that your QB will get a complimentary visit boost during his recruit.
It makes sense from the perspective of the recruit where if you show him you are recruiting other players that will directly help them out, they like that more than a scenario where you have 3 quarterbacks visiting all on the same week. In that case, you get a competitive visit downgrade and every QB gains less recruiting influence for that visit than they otherwise would have.
Today’s research is how big of a boost you can expect when scheduling up to 4 recruits on the same week with complimentary visits. It is important to note that you can only schedule 4 recruiting visits per week so make sure to prioritize the recruits you are most interested in when scheduling visits.
The Experiment
This was a pretty simple experiment that involved 4 steps.
First, we brought in an athlete QB for a solo visit and made sure we had a blowout win then we recorded the results. As a reminder, any win by 15 or more points qualifies as a blowout win and receives the same influence boost.
Second, we kept everything the same from step one but then scheduled an additional complimentary visit and made sure it was a blowout win. Then recorded the results.
Next, we kept everything the same from step one but scheduled two additional complimentary visits and then finally we scheduled 3 additional complimentary visits and recorded the results.
The results were pretty straightforward.
For each complimentary visit, you gain about 10/1000 pixels on the recruiting bar or 1 percent of the total needed to sign a recruit.
We’ll go one by one through each scenario.
The screenshot above shows the influence gain for this recruit with no other visits scheduled during the same week.
The next screenshot (above) shows the slight increase in influence with 1 complimentary visit. It is an increase of about 10 pixels out of 1000 on the recruiting influence bar.
The next screenshot shows the influence gain on this recruit with two complimentary visits. Again, it is an additional 10 or so pixels out of 1000 increase (20 pixels total).
And then finally, since we are limited to a total of 4 visits per week, we can see what a recruit with 3 complimentary visits looks like.
It ends up being about another 10 pixels more out of 1000. So the takeaway here is for each complimentary visit you schedule, you get a boost of about 1 percent of the recruiting influence bar with a maximum boost of 3 percent.
Here is what each looks like stacked on top of each other.
No doubt these are small increases but in recruiting battles for the top recruits in online dynasties, that extra three percent can be the difference between signing a recruit and missing out on one.
If you’ve got extra recruiting hours, the recruit is important to you, and you are locked in a tight battle then scheduling up to 3 complimentary visits is a good strategy. If not, the extra recruiting hours spent may not be worth it.
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