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Originally Posted by Slammer
I'm only in my first season of my first time playing this game, so take this all with a grain of salt. However, I just completed my first draft and noticed a few annoying things such as: - Very few players with high potential (according to scout)
- Completely differing star ratings between OSA and scout
- Recommended players being worse than other players remaining on the board
- Recommended players are usually the next pick if you don't pick them
After noticing that, and not enjoying the draft a whole lot, I found threads like this and this. It appears many people are upset with the draft, or at least were initially. I also noticed that a lot of these threads haven't seen posts in a while.
So what I want to know is, from people who have played out a lot of seasons, did the drafts pan out? Do enough quality players come out of it? Did the league go to ****? Was there an awkward transition between regen players and existing players until the last real player retired? |
1. no comment
2. OSA evaluation accuracy is governed by your overall scouting accuracy as altered in game preferences whilst your individual scout accuracy is based on his stats. So unless you have made overall scouting "legendary" (for example) a scout with a "legendary" rating will be more accurate than the overall OSA regarding players that fall inside whatever his legendary stat covers.
3. I partly agree but you have to factor in that the recommendation is also based on projected cost/difficulty of acquiring said prospects in the signing phase.
4. I have not seen this to be the case.
Your final question is impossible to answer as whether or not a player reaches his perceived potential will be based on how you have played him (and how often his development is hampered with injury). If a one-star player were always definitely going to be a five star player (if that is what his potential says) it wouldn't be called "potential" it would be called something like "future rating".
If you make your scout legendary in all scouting areas by editing him in commissioner mode and then ask him to make reports on individual draft players once the draft pool has been published (regardless of what their star ratings say) then you will have a MUCH better idea of what it is you are actually trying to pick. Moreover, the scout reports are often entertaining with comments such as "he definitely has a future in MLB - in the commentary box" and "he fields like his glove is tied on backwards".