Hello,
I'm currently in year 9 of a save and have noticed that I seem to be losing my scout's historical scouting reports, despite the fact that the setting is to save 1 report per year. The gap in missing reports seems to vary, but for older players who have been in the game longer, it seems like the more reports are missing. For example, I am currently in January 2026, and on Andrew Benintendi's page I can see reports from March 2018, December 2025 and January 2026.
On Blaise Salter's page, I see reports for March 2018, December 2019, December 2020, December 2021, December 2025, and January 2026. It may be worth noting he was in the minors until 2021 and I did not acquire him until the 2025 season.
I thought maybe the game is only saving Minor League reports, but I see gaps in other player's pages when they were in the minors.
I have done some experimenting with this and haven't found anything conclusive. I tried the "Clean Up Scouting Database" button, which seemed to delete all except the oldest and most recent reports, which does not seem to be in line with what should happen. I've turned on keeping all reports, simming ahead a couple years, and then changing back to keeping one report per year, and found that more gaps appeared. I tried turning off the full scouting system and then re-enabling it. Nothing seems to resolve the issue. The only option that seems to retain reports is to select "Keep all", but I am concerned this will end up increasing the file size significantly.
Has anyone else experienced this? I did Google it and found a post where someone noticed they were missing several years worth of scouting reports, but nobody had replied. Link to that post is below:
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=296746