I'm also having difficulty understanding the star ratings. I can cope with them changing erratically over time and not being accurate guides, but not so much with how they differ between the profile and scouting report page (which is where this confusion is happening).
For me, the differences don't depend on time between the reports, I can have my single scout give a completely different overall and/or potential on the profile page than in the scouting report.
I've searched the forums pretty relentlessly in order to figure this out, and the explanation seems to be:
-on the profile page, the ratings are relative to the standards of the current league and the position the player is currently in.
-on the scouting page, the ratings are what they were at the time, still relative to the league, but at the position the scout thinks the player should have...would have? I get a little confused here.
see
here and
here. there are numerous threads about it, so I'm not the only one who finds this bizarre.
Every player in my team (high school, fictional), has differing scout/profile ratings, by the same scout, on the same date. Just what positions does my scout think they should be in? Does both batting slot and defence position matter? How can I tell?