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Originally Posted by Statsman1
Speaking of scouting, I use a scouting accuracy setting that is not 100%, but the next tier down (very high, I believe).
In a new fictional league, the initial draft gets completed absolutely first. There is no time to do anything concrete - I cannot hire personnel (only submit offers), or anything else.
So, off to the draft. When drafting, I will occasionally use the scout’s recommendation, but I try to build my team a particular way (high actual ratings for some positions, high potential in others). So I draft, based on the OSA ratings. Then, after the draft is done, NOW whoever my scout is gets to look at my team and I get the reports in due time.
Invariably, and I mean EVERY TIME, the initial reports tell me that my highest rated players lose both potential and actual ratings like crazy. My 80 potentials become 70, my 70 potentials become 60 and my currents lose 10 points as well. It’s like my scout believes the OSA held the initial draft settings party at their local Hooters on Dollar Beer night.
Does anyone else see this? Is there a way to avoid this type of draft rating fiasco that I am not seeing?
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This is an artifact of the way the game a. produces the draft itself and b. how it gets the draft to behave something like how it behaves IRL. The MLB draft is just not as reliable as the draft in other sports... in pretty much any other sport. Busts are pretty common as are booms. The only way you can really capture this is to either have scouting on draftable players wildly unreliable, which I think nobody wanted (although it's probably the most realistic option) or else do what the game does, which is make recent draftees very, very volatile.
If you want a more reliable draft, turn up development. Guys who develop into their potential tend not to lose it nearly as often.