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Old 08-18-2013, 10:05 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by thbroman View Post

There's a second and possibly more interesting reason for the lack of success, which is that my "outstanding" and "LEGENDARY" scout also stongly favored tools instead of ability and this preference, combined with the invisibility of ratings, may have led my scout's recommendations to be less useful than they might otherwise have been. Does this make sense? I'm not sure.
Just to throw another thing out there- is there any chance the scouting budget to accuracy metric has been adjusted this year? I'm seeing different results as well for my farm systems- I have found that using scouting recommendations usually gives me more late round sleepers though. One last thing- do you find that the scouting recommendations have a tendency to be hitter focused and/or need-based? When I let the draft auto-complete I often end up with 8 pitchers and 32 batters.
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