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marc420 · 10-28-2009, 01:33 PM

On the scout ratings, check the details of what ratings you are seeing. Generally, you have two sets available to you. One is the league wide scouting agency's, the other is your team's scout. Unfortunately, the game tends to jump back and forth between the two. And while every screen usually tells you somewhere what ratings you are looking at, unfortunately some of the reports like the minor league system report don't.

One nasty feature of the game is that it uncontrollably hops back and forth between scouts. You can be looking at your scout's ratings, but then on the next screen you are back to the service. It would be very nice if this 'scout source' was a global setting, thus I could be sure of looking at my scout's results everywhere. Instead, you really need to get in the habit of checking to see just what numbers the game is choosing to throw at you at any given time.

From checking the details on a player in my game, it appears that the ratings on the ML System report are the potential ratings from the league scouting agency. Which to me would be about the most useless choice available, as I like to stick with my scout. And since I'm evaluating the current progress of the player, I'm not terribly interested in some future ratings of what he might be someday when I'm looking at this report.

Says an awful lot about the game that no one lets the AI or their own coaching recommendations make the decisions. Especially when you remember that this is what all the AI teams are of course using.

I played one year as an unemployed manager who got a job managing in the rookie league. Do that, and you'll see what ridiculous decisions the AI makes. You tended to see a lot of quality AA and AAA players being sent down to the rookie league, staying there for a week or so, then being promoted back out again, but not back up to what seemed to be their proper level. Managing rookie league games was insane, because you'd see similar players on the other teams as well. So, it was your roster being shut down by some pitcher that ought to be in AAA, except for your own 'ringer' outfielder who also should have been in AAA, thus he was the only one who could hit him.

10-28-2009, 01:33 PM	#4
marc420 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Terrapin Station Posts: 112	scouts On the scout ratings, check the details of what ratings you are seeing. Generally, you have two sets available to you. One is the league wide scouting agency's, the other is your team's scout. Unfortunately, the game tends to jump back and forth between the two. And while every screen usually tells you somewhere what ratings you are looking at, unfortunately some of the reports like the minor league system report don't. One nasty feature of the game is that it uncontrollably hops back and forth between scouts. You can be looking at your scout's ratings, but then on the next screen you are back to the service. It would be very nice if this 'scout source' was a global setting, thus I could be sure of looking at my scout's results everywhere. Instead, you really need to get in the habit of checking to see just what numbers the game is choosing to throw at you at any given time. From checking the details on a player in my game, it appears that the ratings on the ML System report are the potential ratings from the league scouting agency. Which to me would be about the most useless choice available, as I like to stick with my scout. And since I'm evaluating the current progress of the player, I'm not terribly interested in some future ratings of what he might be someday when I'm looking at this report. Says an awful lot about the game that no one lets the AI or their own coaching recommendations make the decisions. Especially when you remember that this is what all the AI teams are of course using. I played one year as an unemployed manager who got a job managing in the rookie league. Do that, and you'll see what ridiculous decisions the AI makes. You tended to see a lot of quality AA and AAA players being sent down to the rookie league, staying there for a week or so, then being promoted back out again, but not back up to what seemed to be their proper level. Managing rookie league games was insane, because you'd see similar players on the other teams as well. So, it was your roster being shut down by some pitcher that ought to be in AAA, except for your own 'ringer' outfielder who also should have been in AAA, thus he was the only one who could hit him.