Scouting in Jnr Hockey

tomkmb · 04-01-2023, 04:58 PM

Does anyone know at what sort of stage of the year you can expect to have prospects scouted for the 3 drafts (I'm in the QMJHL).

Doing my first save in the juniors and learning as I go as I'm not familiar with the league.

Before the season I made sure to get more scouts in for Canada and also a couple in the US and in Europe too for the import draft, during the season I spent points to enhance the scouting and also made sure to change my priorities so that prospects were listed at the top.

Here's the draft update near the end of the playoffs, only a smattering of guys have reached some semblance of scouting. What could I be doing wrong here?

Here is the drafts as they stand in April

Any advice would be welcomed!

Castleview · 04-02-2023, 04:44 AM

Might be an obvious question, but have you added any of these players to your scouting priorities list?

tomkmb · 04-02-2023, 07:06 AM

No, In my NHL sim's when I prioritise the prospects at the top of the priorities tab it manages to scout the majority of the draft, having to manually add 68(or more) players to my watch-list was something I was hoping to be able to avoid having to do by ensuring that everything else was setup to catch them (or should catch them given how scouting is defined in the game.)

tomkmb · 04-04-2023, 10:09 AM

Just a follow up to this, I arrived at the drafts and the QMJHL draft was scouted to some level for the most part, however the import and american drafts were largely unscouted resulting in guess work, very frustrating! Even an addition of the 'tag control' for adding players to a watchlist would be useful in an instance like this.

Colorado · 04-06-2023, 05:03 PM

It's another example of the game interface needing improving. We should be able to select multiple players and add for scouting/watch lists etc

04-01-2023, 04:58 PM	#1
tomkmb All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 1,609	Scouting in Jnr Hockey Does anyone know at what sort of stage of the year you can expect to have prospects scouted for the 3 drafts (I'm in the QMJHL). Doing my first save in the juniors and learning as I go as I'm not familiar with the league. Before the season I made sure to get more scouts in for Canada and also a couple in the US and in Europe too for the import draft, during the season I spent points to enhance the scouting and also made sure to change my priorities so that prospects were listed at the top. Here's the draft update near the end of the playoffs, only a smattering of guys have reached some semblance of scouting. What could I be doing wrong here? Here is the drafts as they stand in April Any advice would be welcomed!

04-02-2023, 04:44 AM	#2
Castleview All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2020 Location: Scotland Posts: 869	Might be an obvious question, but have you added any of these players to your scouting priorities list?

04-02-2023, 07:06 AM	#3
tomkmb All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 1,609	No, In my NHL sim's when I prioritise the prospects at the top of the priorities tab it manages to scout the majority of the draft, having to manually add 68(or more) players to my watch-list was something I was hoping to be able to avoid having to do by ensuring that everything else was setup to catch them (or should catch them given how scouting is defined in the game.)

04-04-2023, 10:09 AM	#4
tomkmb All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 1,609	Just a follow up to this, I arrived at the drafts and the QMJHL draft was scouted to some level for the most part, however the import and american drafts were largely unscouted resulting in guess work, very frustrating! Even an addition of the 'tag control' for adding players to a watchlist would be useful in an instance like this.

04-06-2023, 05:03 PM	#5
Colorado Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 401	It's another example of the game interface needing improving. We should be able to select multiple players and add for scouting/watch lists etc