Training/Scouting system changes

Babylonians · 10-27-2016, 03:48 PM

I find it hard to believe the Scouting director does ALL the scouting himself and same thing with trainer. I think it'd be cool to hire trainers and scouts as understudies/assistants like on a real team. You can then assign your scouts to certain places to scout international and amateur players. Say you assign a scout to Arkansas and he gets lucky, he might find a player nobody knew about before. Like randomly generated players. Adds diversity to already-generated draft classes. On the player pages it could say "Found by _____" Say your trainer is pretty good but for the life of him cannot prevent or help leg injuries. Hire yourself an assistant who is good at that. I think it'd add a cool game feature and more realism.

jpeters1734 · 11-02-2016, 02:12 PM

This was something that was added in early OOTP versions. From what I understand, it was something far too tedious.

Also, you must understand your role. You're the GM. You hire a scouting director. The SD will take care of all the bird dog scouts. Ultimately, you hire a SD to get you scouting reports, which is what's happening. As a GM, it's not your job to suck the egg too.

10-27-2016, 03:48 PM	#1
Babylonians Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 4	Training/Scouting system changes I find it hard to believe the Scouting director does ALL the scouting himself and same thing with trainer. I think it'd be cool to hire trainers and scouts as understudies/assistants like on a real team. You can then assign your scouts to certain places to scout international and amateur players. Say you assign a scout to Arkansas and he gets lucky, he might find a player nobody knew about before. Like randomly generated players. Adds diversity to already-generated draft classes. On the player pages it could say "Found by _____" Say your trainer is pretty good but for the life of him cannot prevent or help leg injuries. Hire yourself an assistant who is good at that. I think it'd add a cool game feature and more realism.

11-02-2016, 02:12 PM	#2
jpeters1734 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Juust a bit outside... Posts: 6,294	This was something that was added in early OOTP versions. From what I understand, it was something far too tedious. Also, you must understand your role. You're the GM. You hire a scouting director. The SD will take care of all the bird dog scouts. Ultimately, you hire a SD to get you scouting reports, which is what's happening. As a GM, it's not your job to suck the egg too. __________________ "Cannonball Coming!" Go Bucs!! Founder and League Caretaker of the Professional Baseball Circuit, www.probaseballcircuit.com An Un-Official Guide to Minor League Management in OOTP 21 Ratings Scale Conversion Cross-Reference Cheat Sheet