CFB 27 NIL Offer → Recruiting Influence
Related: Recruiting tunables · Coaching abilities (Deal Maker).
Executive summary
- Main finding: NIL offer influence is driven by offer ÷ expectation, looked up on
ScholarshipBonusPercentageSpline. - Meeting expectation (
100%) grants 0 bonus influence. Underpaying is harshly penalized (e.g. −900 at 50%). Overpaying is capped byNILOfferRelativeMultMax = 2at +50 influence for a 200% offer. - Recruits with
NILExpectation ≤ 10use a separate absolute curve (ScholarshipBonusRawSpline) instead of the ratio. - Flat extras:
ScholarshipOfferWeeklyBonus = +5, and coaching talent Deal Maker adds +10 (ProgramPoints_RecruitingNILIncreaseInfluence). - Low / Medium / High “offer interest” labels are a separate 0–100 UI mapping, not the influence spline itself.
Status: spline values and scalars confirmed from dynasty-tuning-binary.FTC. Exact weekly stacking order vs other influence sources is inferred from field names and schema, not decompiled eval code.
Why this matters
The recruiting UI shows NIL expectation and offer amounts, but not how those dollars convert to influence. The tuning data shows a steep asymmetric curve: falling short of expectation costs far more influence than overpaying can gain.
Core formula
From RecruitingTunables + ProgramPointsTuning:
ratioPct = CurrentNILOffer / NILExpectation * 100
ratioPct = min(ratioPct, NILOfferRelativeMultMax * 100) # max 200%
if NILExpectation <= ScholarshipBonusLowExpectationCutoff: # 10
influence = ScholarshipBonusRawSpline(offerAmount)
else:
influence = ScholarshipBonusPercentageSpline(ratioPct)
influence += ScholarshipOfferWeeklyBonus # +5
influence += DealMaker_RecruitingNILIncreaseInfluence # +10 if talent
Save fields on the recruit/target side: CurrentNILOffer, NILExpectation, OriginalNILExpectation.
Minimum offer floor in tuning: MinimumNILToOfferPercentage = 0.80 (80% of expectation).
Percentage spline (normal path)
RecruitingTunables.ScholarshipBonusPercentageSpline
X = offer / expectation × 100. Y = recruiting influence.
| Offer / Expected | Influence |
|---|---|
| 50% | −900 |
| 60% | −500 |
| 70% | −200 |
| 80% | −75 |
| 90% | −15 |
| 100% | 0 |
| 120% | +10 |
| 140% | +20 |
| 160% | +30 |
| 180% | +40 |
| 200% | +50 |
Intermediate ratios interpolate along the spline. Values above 200% are capped by NILOfferRelativeMultMax = 2.
Raw spline (low expectation)
When NILExpectation ≤ ScholarshipBonusLowExpectationCutoff (10), the game uses ScholarshipBonusRawSpline (absolute offer units, roughly ±2 influence per unit):
| Offer (X) | Influence |
|---|---|
| 0 | −20 |
| 2 | −16 |
| 4 | −12 |
| 6 | −8 |
| 8 | −4 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 12 | +4 |
| 14 | +8 |
| 16 | +12 |
| 18 | +16 |
| 20 | +20 |
This avoids unstable percentages when expectation is a tiny denominator.
Flat bonuses
| Source | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ScholarshipOfferWeeklyBonus | +5 | Flat; name implies weekly with an active offer |
Deal Maker (ProgramPoints_RecruitingNILIncreaseInfluence) | +10 | Flat coaching talent; same family as other *Influence* CTEs |
UI: offer interest levels (not influence)
ProgramPointsTuning.OfferInterestThresholdInfoList maps a 0–100 score to labels:
| Label | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Low | 0 | 33 |
| Medium | 34 | 66 |
| High | 67 | 100 |
OfferFeedbackThresholdInfoList drives reaction text (Very Interested / Interested / Neutral / Disinterested / Very Disinterested) from threshold values 50 / 49 / 24 / −1 / −25. That display scale is separate from the influence spline Y values above.
Related expectation tuning (context)
These feed how large NILExpectation is, not the offer→influence conversion itself:
| Field | Role |
|---|---|
BaseNILValueSpline | OVR → base NIL value (ProgramPointsTuning) |
NILPositionValueTable | Per-position NIL weight (QB 50, DE/T 25, WR 15, …; K/P/FB negative) |
NILDealbreakerModifierSpline | Dealbreaker-side NIL modifier (offset input via NILDealbreakerModInputOffsetForSpline = 12) |
Sources
RecruitingTunables:ScholarshipBonusPercentageSpline,ScholarshipBonusRawSpline,ScholarshipBonusLowExpectationCutoff,ScholarshipOfferWeeklyBonus,MinimumNILToOfferPercentageProgramPointsTuning:NILOfferRelativeMultMax,OfferInterestThresholdInfoList,OfferFeedbackThresholdInfoList,BaseNILValueSpline,NILPositionValueTable,NILDealbreakerModifierSpline- Coaching CTE:
ProgramPoints_RecruitingNILIncreaseInfluence(Deal Maker)
Spline Y values use FranTk excess-2³¹ signed encoding in the FTC array store; decoded values above.