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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
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.
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Originally Posted by Friendly_Beaver
I spent a lot of time testing this yesterday, hiring different scouts and reloading my save and I can safely say that none of them rate pitching prospects correctly. Every one of them had highly touted prospects like Tyler Jay, Brady Aiken and Phil Bickford as 2 star potential pitchers.
I can't even use the scouts anymore because it's just annoying me. I sent my scout to watch Roberto Osuna who's 20 in AAA and 10-1 with a 1.95 ERA and he comes back to me and tells me he's terrible.... I did this with multiple scouts and the results ranged from he's terrible to he may be a depth reliever....
Anyone have something they could suggest to get realistic evaluations of pitching talent? I don't want 100% accuracy but at least to the point where I don't just disregard anything the scout says about a pitcher.
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This is why i think scouting is broken or just not designed correctly in this game.
These are major league scouts. They should be able to see talent, yet, the opinions on OSA and team scouting are so different, it's completely unrealistic.
If a scout is watching a prospect, and one thinks the guy is amazing, while the other thinks the guy is terrible, one should not be a scout. It's that simple.
The difference between good and bad scouts should be much more subtle then what we currently sees
Example time.
Lets say a player is actually a 80/100 potential player.
In the game right now,
Scout 1- 90/100 He really likes the player
Scout 2- 40/100 Scout isn't a fan
OSA- 20/100 Do they even understand baseball?
Now in the draft, this player can go anywhere from first, to 15th round!
btw, who is right, i don't know, because it seems random, or best guess.
In reality, i believe a realistic view might be the following:
Scout 1- 84/100 He really likes the player
Scout 2- 68/100 He sees the player is good, but isn't that big a fan
OSA- anywhere from 65-95
Now, in the draft, i could see a player like this going anywhere from top 10, to mid 2nd round, based on your info.
OSA should be a general idea, maybe within 20/30 points. Scouts should be a bit more accurate to a great deal more accurate based on abilities. There shouldn't be such HUGE differences of opinion.
Scouts know potential when they see it. Until OOTP gets this right, scouting is broken to me at the very least.