[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by endgame

Strange as saying this sounds, even to me, my scout and I have had more than our share of disagreements. The majority of the time, frankly, I play the rank card and overrule him. In a few other cases, I've trusted his 'hunches' or inclinations, making a note in a player's history that he occupies his spot due directly to my scout's recommendation.

Now it's a new league, a new version, probably new discoveries yet to make, but suffice to say over the years of playing the game, examining and testing scouting, often obsessively, I've arrived at two main conclusions: I'm probably right only a bit more often than my scout was in the borderline picks, and if the mechanics of scouting ever evolve into easily understood stratagems and identifiable translations, well, it won't be scouting any longer.

Good post, particularly the last sentence. I do appreciate "the fog of baseball," so to speak.