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Most of what has been said in this thread is all stuff I fully subscribe to. As a general rule of thumb, how accurate your own scout is with players in the draft depends on how much you spend on amateur scouting in your scouting budget.
For me, if I see a vast discrepancy between what my scout thinks (I spend a lot on amateur scouting) and what the OSA thinks, I'll avoid drafting that guy early in the draft. If there's only one rating that's vastly different, I won't worry too much about it.
Scudworth's point about ignoring the scouting report text is a good one. The written part of the scouting reports are still somewhat rudimentary and lacks depth. The ratings are more important. And he's also spot on about overall star ratings. Many times a guy will be 2.5 or 3 stars in potential, but can't hit his way out of a paper back. He gets those 2.5 or 3 stars because he's fast and plays good defense, but his hitting is so poor that he'd never be a serviceable big leaguer.
And one other thing I do is I have ask my scout for scouting reports on the top players in the draft. I don't know if it makes a different, but since my scout is basically idle, I figure it can't hurt to do it just in case it does actually update a few skill ratings or his personality ratings compared to what the scout says when the draft pool is published.
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