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Old 06-08-2023, 03:37 PM   #7
Syd Thrift
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Originally Posted by Pelican View Post
Likewise curious.

I originally interpreted this to mean that the player scouting reports would mention significant stats within the narrative evaluation. ["Throws hard but in AA walked 115 in 95 innings,,,,"]. But that didn't happen, so it must mean something else,
The scouting reports are essentially Mad Libs where different snippets are assigned to each player based on contact/power/eye and so on. I’m not sure that any of them have stat boxes loaded in - I’d have to look at that - but I think what this box is referring to is every now and then you’ll get a report saying “X is capable of hitting .280” or “Y has 25 HR power”. I *think* those numbers are based on the game looking at your LTMs and figuring out if a guy is, like, able to hit 20 points higher than the league average or whatever, although I could be wrong and those might just be more Mad Libs.

As an aside, that file - English.xml - is waaay too large to work with all by itself in proper XML editors, which is really too bad. I tried adding in reports last year using VSCode but it’s too hard to notice malformed report segments (I had one in there that was causing a crash when it was assigned to a player and you tried to open their scouting report) and was a bit of a PITA to edit in the first place. The devs splitting that file out would be a godsend…
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