[greenOak]

Something I came across just poking around the game. I looked at a draft class' potential under 100% accurate ratings and then compared it when scouted with various accuracy. All results are from OOTP scouting. All players have "Average" level for accuracy of most recent scouting report - NOTE THAT THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM SCOUTING ACCURACY UNDER GAME SETTINGS WHICH IS STATIC. All potential ratings are on the 20-80 scale. I'll show the mean error (absolute value) on each the settings.

Very High: 2.204
High: 2.251
Normal: 2.336
Low: 2.407
Very Low: 2.467

A lot of 20/20 players are rated 20/20 on every scouting level, so if we throw those players out of the pool and do the same analysis I get:

Very High: 3.810
High: 3.932
Normal: 4.110
Low: 4.281
Very Low: 4.416

Basically the difference in accuracy between Very High and Very Low is about a sixth of the difference between Very High and 100%. Moreover, the maximum error for the levels (VH to VL) are 22,22,23,23,24. The number of players who are off by double digits are 85,84,90,97,103. There are 1746 players in the sample.

Basically, there is little difference in scouting levels (at least for the amateur draft). This is annoying to me because I would rather play with scouting more accurate than normal, but even on very high it is hardly noticeable. My guess is there are some people who would rather the ratings be less accurate than normal who will be disappointed by very low as well.