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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
Well, it does and it doesn't. The scouting grades are not usually wildly different, so yes, you might have a difference of 5 or 10 points usually on the 20-80 scale. 10 points is actually significant...5 not as much. But there needs to be a strategic element to scouting, and so if it takes a scout a few days longer to let you know, so be it.
Scouting is so dumbed down as it is. I mean, we really should have separate scouts for Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, International Leagues (although less now I guess) and Amateurs. We already have these as 4 desperate categories, so why not have some more scouts for immersion and strategy purposes? Why not be able to assign scouts to different geographical areas? I'm just brainstorming aloud.
For some reason scouting in OOTP has always gotten the "short shrift" compared to say a game like FM.
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We talked about this before. Scouting in FM is the most unrealistic and gamey garbage it could possibly be.
A scout in FM literally can't ever be wrong when he scouts a player, and he gives you hyper-precise information on a lot of stuff that isn't even observable.
A scout in FM watches a defender play 15 minutes of a match and he suddenly can tell you, without the possibility of being wrong and very precisely on a 1-20 scale, how good the player is at kicking a corner (he never watched the player kick a corner), how aggresive he is, whether he is good at teamwork, whether he will be composed when presented with a 1v1 versus a keeper, etc...