What do you do with your scouts?

[jinif]

Do you have them scout the Majors? Specific Teams? your opponents? Other countries?

do you have any left over to use for scouting a specific player?

How often do you use the quick scout option? I have been quick scouting players but wth more the one scout to get a better idea of how good a player actually is.

[magnet]

I have one scout set to scout the upcoming opponent. Don't schedule this guy anything else, or he'll spend all of his time traveling and won't get good scouting in. The other scouts are sent to various countries. My head scout is set to rescout the major league once a month, and is used for quickscout duties.

[orwell]

Originally Posted by jinif

Do you have them scout the Majors? Specific Teams? your opponents? Other countries?

do you have any left over to use for scouting a specific player?

How often do you use the quick scout option? I have been quick scouting players but wth more the one scout to get a better idea of how good a player actually is.

I keep my two worst scouts permanently out in the world, going from country to country to try to unearth some gem. For the rest of the scouts, I use the "tasklist" function to have them perpetually quick scouting every league in my universe. As soon as one of them finishes and sends me their report on the league, I take a look at their top few prospects, quick scout them with my other scouts, then often try to trade for them. In this way, I try to keep my team heavy with still-developing top prospects, trading away higher-cost, more developed players. It's worked pretty well.

The only time I change this is to send all scouts to scout the draft class.

Also, a few times a year, I'll have my head scout really scout (not quick scout) my entire organization. That takes only 21 days and that way I try to have the head scout up to date with my own players' development.

[robster1225]

Originally Posted by magnet

I have one scout set to scout the upcoming opponent. Don't schedule this guy anything else, or he'll spend all of his time traveling and won't get good scouting in. The other scouts are sent to various countries. My head scout is set to rescout the major league once a month, and is used for quickscout duties.

How do you re-scout the entire major leagues once a month? Are you doing a quick-scout? I find that I can't trust the quick-scouts very much, so I hardly ever use them.

[magnet]

Originally Posted by robster1225

How do you re-scout the entire major leagues once a month? Are you doing a quick-scout? I find that I can't trust the quick-scouts very much, so I hardly ever use them.

Oops. I meant to say he scouts my own organization once a month. I'm pretty sure he does that by default.

[robster1225]

Oh, ok, lol. Yeah, that is a default action, and he'll do it regardless of what else you have him doing, IIRC. So, you can still send him elsewhere and you'll get those monthly reports.

[magnet]

Originally Posted by robster1225

Oh, ok, lol. Yeah, that is a default action, and he'll do it regardless of what else you have him doing, IIRC. So, you can still send him elsewhere and you'll get those monthly reports.

Maybe I'm combining WWSM and OOTP here, but I thought I read that if you have your scouts doing too much, the reports are less accurate.

[Kelric]

I shut them off.

[1998 Yankees]

1. I don't scout nations.
2. I purposely have only 4 minor league levels, so they fit into that screen nicely.
3. I keep my head scout for special purposes, particularly draft pool, but also for other jobs like "in-depth" analysis of individual players and organizations that I am interested in (as in "how the heck do they do things over there, anyway, and why aren't we doing the same things?")
4. The other five guys do the same leagues over and over again, MLB and minors; five levels, five guys. You thought your job was boring and repetitive?

And yes, even so, I rely too often on quick scouting. Should scale that back, I suppose.

[MDanbom]

I set one guy to scout my organization permanently, and one to scout upcoming opponents permanently. The others I send to countries, but I usually send them to countries without a lot of talent. If you keep them in central america or southeast asia, they find way too many really good prospects. It makes the game (for me) not very difficult. Plus, its way more fun to have a center fielder who is the only player in the league from Suriname, than it would be to have another run-of-the-mill Dominican stud. Occasionally, if I think the scouts are finding me way too many good prospects, I sign and then immediately release the 5-stars and let the rest of the league have at them.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by magnet

Oops. I meant to say he scouts my own organization once a month. I'm pretty sure he does that by default.

He won't scout your organization unless you ask him to- he scouts the 40-man roster once a month automatically, however.

[Burgandy]

Originally Posted by injury log

He won't scout your organization unless you ask him to- he scouts the 40-man roster once a month automatically, however.

Exactly. Only scouting the 40-man roster doesn't cut it for me, so my head scout does a full scout of my entire organization once a month. So basically, my 40-man gets scouted on the 1st and 19th of every month.

I have only one scout that I scout the draft pool with. (Doing it with 5 was making me over-analyze too much and making it too cumbersome anyway). After he's done, he automatically scouts MLB, and then he scouts a nation until the next draft pool.

The other 4 are all on cycled lists of full-scouting organizations. I have 26 org's in my world, so they all have their own division, so I know anyone in the AL West was scouted by one scout, etc. This took some getting used to, but it works wonders for me as far as knowing what I'm looking at. If I wanted to get really anal about it, I could pull a quick list of major transactions and quickscout those guys by their new team's scout. But as it is, I get an accurate look at every decent prospect on every organization at least once a year. The only ones I miss are those that get dropped or traded.

[Burgandy]

I guess I should have mentioned that I keep scouting nations to a minumum only because it seems like such an unfair advantage. If I wanted the most effective scouting possible, I'd probably skip everything else and have everybody scouting nations.

[orwell]

Originally Posted by MDanbom

I set one guy to scout my organization permanently, and one to scout upcoming opponents permanently. The others I send to countries, but I usually send them to countries without a lot of talent. If you keep them in central america or southeast asia, they find way too many really good prospects. It makes the game (for me) not very difficult. Plus, its way more fun to have a center fielder who is the only player in the league from Suriname, than it would be to have another run-of-the-mill Dominican stud. Occasionally, if I think the scouts are finding me way too many good prospects, I sign and then immediately release the 5-stars and let the rest of the league have at them.

Have you ever found a good player from a country with horrible baseball ratings? I've always wanted to (for the reasons you mention) but all I ever find are scrubs. What's more, when I scout a little-thought-of country (like Suriname) the players I turn up are never from Suriname, they're from another country.

So, I just stick with the powerhouse countries. Sometimes, it does seem too easy, but I only use two scouts for this purpose, and not 100% of the time.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by orwell

Have you ever found a good player from a country with horrible baseball ratings? I've always wanted to (for the reasons you mention) but all I ever find are scrubs.

I did find a good pitcher in Indonesia once, but that was after years and years of trying.

Originally Posted by orwell

What's more, when I scout a little-thought-of country (like Suriname) the players I turn up are never from Suriname, they're from another country.

I recently found a native Tuvaluan in Tuvalu and a native Vanuatuan (?) in Vanuatu, so it does happen. I'll let you know in a few seasons if they're any good (I'm playing with ratings invisible).

[MDanbom]

Originally Posted by orwell

Have you ever found a good player from a country with horrible baseball ratings? I've always wanted to (for the reasons you mention) but all I ever find are scrubs. What's more, when I scout a little-thought-of country (like Suriname) the players I turn up are never from Suriname, they're from another country.

So, I just stick with the powerhouse countries. Sometimes, it does seem too easy, but I only use two scouts for this purpose, and not 100% of the time.

Yes, I have found players from bad baseball countries with good ratings, it's just not as common. As far as the players found in Suriname not being native Surinamians, this makes sense to me. I remember seeing the little league world series a couple years back when the team from Saudi Arabia made it and they were all white kids with a few black kids mixed in. There might have been maybe one native Saudi Arabian on the team. Therefore, you could assume that the only kids that play baseball in Saudi Arabia are the ones who moved there from other countries.

[Dagrims]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I shut them off.

Yes, I treat scouts like I treat women: I turn them off. One's intentional, however.