Just beginning the play the new version and recruiting with the NIL and trying to understand how it works. I am starting with a real bad team (Sacramento State) and my NIL collective is $33,000. I offered my first player and asked the collective for money and now my collective money is gone. Is there somewhere it tells me how much a player wants in NIL money, or is there a way I can determine the offer, or does the NIL collective automatically set the amount?

buckshot13 wrote:Just beginning the play the new version and recruiting with the NIL and trying to understand how it works. I am starting with a real bad team (Sacramento State) and my NIL collective is $33,000. I offered my first player and asked the collective for money and now my collective money is gone. Is there somewhere it tells me how much a player wants in NIL money, or is there a way I can determine the offer, or does the NIL collective automatically set the amount?

NIL Collecetive automatically sets the amount. As far as I know there isn't any info on what A player wants, it's more of a signing bonus.

That money will now be allotted to that player until he give a verbal to a school. If it's your school, he'll get the money. If it isn't your school, you'll get the money back. The only hangup right now is that if you revoke a scholarship, the NIL money doesn't go back into the collective. Pretty sure that's suppose to be fixed in tomorrows update.

Here's a comment from Gary when the game was in First Access:

by Gary Gorski » 03 Mar 2025 12:43

Thank you for the input. You are right on the NIL front - its totally new to the game so we'll see how it works and what tweaks need to be made. The offers are meant to be inconsistent so that its not a straight x OVR = x $ formula and also allows for some collectives to "want a player more". When it comes to offering multiples at once the collective is not going to offer way below market (unless thats all it has) so if you only have enough really for one player and you want it split four ways its not going to do that. It will just go after whoever the collective wants most. If you want to ensure one guy gets it then offer the scholarship and the NIL option to him that week and then go for a second offer the following week or whatever. Also some collectives are going to spend what they have to hope they get a guy which could lead to an overspend while others like a big time one might not pay up as much for a lesser player because they could easily get another one of those so there is quite a bit of unpredictability purposefully built in.

Thanks for the responses and information.