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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
To me this is exactly why players' should actually have to be playing in order for scouting updates to occur. There is just no way a scout is going to say that between December and January a. player went from a 55 to a 45.
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This is a valid point, but if you change scouting to prevent any updates during the off-season, I suspect that a lot of OOTP gamers would be very unhappy. I don't think they would want to be blindsided by those updates later, with a lot less time to make trades, sign free agents, or otherwise address negative development issues. But it would certainly be more realistic, unless the player is playing winter ball or participates in some kind of off-season workouts where a scout actually has a chance to watch them.
You're right that scouting is a cosmetic interaction built onto the actual ratings changes that are underlying everything. That's a symptom of it being a simulation where players have ratings. Even in Football Manager, which has arguably the most sophisticated scouting system among sports sims, scouts are still able to provide evaluations and updates, even when some players aren't truly playing matches. Ultimately, I don't know if there's a way to ever make it all realistic, and it would probably be a huge undertaking to do so. But I can see why people want something better.