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Old 03-26-2020, 08:55 PM   #15
greenOak
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Another finding: The amateur draft budget effects the dynamic scouting level of your scouting reports. I've only tested a few teams, but the results seem clear. To do this, I took over a team on May 5, let the AI handle everything, and simmed until the draft. Then I would CTRL+ALT+DEL force quit out, load the game again, and pick a different team.

The Indians had a measley 330K invested in amateur scouting, and by the time of the amateur draft they had the accuracy of their scouting reports had the following distribution:

High: 112
Average: 148
Low: 315
Very Low: 505

Meanwhile, the Reds had 4.41M invested in amateur scouting and they got the following distribution:

High: 336
Average: 744

Keep in mind there is still give or take to this relationship. So far, the Diamondbacks got the best distribution with 554 high accuracy reports and 526 average accuracy reports despite only investing 1.716M in scouting. Nevertheless, the trend is clear. Of the teams I have tested so far, Baltimore was the only other team to have low and very low accuracy reports and they had the second lowest amateur scouting budget (1.24M).

The difference in accuracy between a High accuracy report and an average accuracy report is small but noticeable. The mean error for high accuracy points so far has been about 0.25 less than the mean error for average accuracy reports.

Last edited by greenOak; 03-26-2020 at 08:57 PM.
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