[SirMichaelJordan]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I think they're completely useless if what you want is for scouting to interject a level of "fog of war" between you and the actual ratings. They do so to some degree for younger players but not even a little bit for older ones.

I’m all for fog of war but one could argue that vets shouldn’t be too far off.

Not even remotely true for veterans. Anyone who has been in the league for more than 3-4 years will have 100% accurate ratings, to the extent that you will know the very same month exactly when their ratings dip.

You should also test, with very low accuracy setting, a player with very high scouting accuracy will not be spot on compared to his ratings when changed to 100% accuracy. Experience and scout plays a role here but it’s usually not 100% spot on even if a single rating is off by just 1

That's a. not necessarily the case when you're talking about 16 year olds - even those Caribbean kids are pretty well unknown - and b. not at all the issue. FM has ratings which grade a player's individual abilities to run down the field, knock headers into the goal, shoot corners, and do a whole bunch of other things that are not reflected directly in the statistics the leagues around the world keep (although this is beginning to change). In OOTP all of the ratings, with I guess the exception of the mental ones (which are randomized anyway), are based on actual stats.

Its 2020, scouts aren’t going into rural Caribbean countries finding unknown talent. The best talent is already curated fir them in Dominican leagues before they are signed to MLB teams. Not to mention that some of those players are already signed to LMB teams

That would be nice. It would be nicer if scouting actually did what it's supposed to do.

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