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03-23-2020, 08:52 AM | #1 |
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If you manually scout a player a couple of times in a row will the scouting accuracy go up?
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03-23-2020, 08:54 AM | #2 |
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Yes, the more a player is scouted, the higher the accuracy.
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03-23-2020, 09:13 AM | #3 |
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is there a limit to the amount of times you can request new scouting reports
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03-23-2020, 03:36 PM | #4 | |
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I have noticed that when scouting the amateur draft, reports get old after about one week. That is, they drop down a notch in accuracy. Not sure why this happens so quickly, nor what is bad about this--does the report become less accurate? I have not noticed the ratings change at all on these guys.
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03-23-2020, 06:18 PM | #5 |
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Maybe someone can answer this...been playing the game for about 8 years now. Seems scouting has changed a bit. At one time you would have to request a scouting report during the season. Now it appears your lead scout has several players listed in his scout task list.
Obviously a change, can someone explain the change a bit more. Trying to get a grasp how to use this. At one time if a player was on waivers, I would request a scouting report on that player and have it within a day to evaluate if I should make a claim. now when doing so it states may take up to 14 days to get a report. |
03-23-2020, 06:46 PM | #6 | |
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Scouting reports trickle in all the time, the scout is always working.
You have some control of this with your scouting budget and scout focus plus you can request reports on individual players. Since your scout is always scouting you don't get near immediate returns on your requests for reports.
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03-24-2020, 02:21 PM | #8 |
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So you can select all draft prospects and add them all to the Scout's task list. But the emails after are crazy annoying. Started doing this from about opening day and everyone is very high scouted. Does automatic scouting even come close to this efficiency? I have only been playing 21 for the morning, I will update if I find anything different.
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03-24-2020, 02:28 PM | #9 | |
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03-24-2020, 02:39 PM | #10 |
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I thought about this and it doesn't appear so, would still want to see major/minor league scouting reports though. Wondering more if the scout will scout everyone in the draft on his own so I don't have to tell him to.
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03-24-2020, 03:03 PM | #11 |
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Exploring entire draft lists with limited duration to do so. That bears a thread unto itself I think. Surely our scouts during such a period have to take some clue from the wider OSA contention. This may be conducive to influence by a renewed emphasis on the evaluation distribution tethered to phases and event clusters.
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03-24-2020, 03:37 PM | #12 |
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Do I need to request a bunch of individual scouting reports for the players in the draft pool, or will my scout automatically scout the players in the draft pool (assuming I put a reasonable amount of money towards amateur scouting)? It seems like I should have to tell my scout that I want to no more about the players I might be drafting.
I assume it's normal for the scouting accuracy to be low on almost all the prospects wihen the draft pool is first announced, right? Does that explain why most of the players are around 3 star potential? Will my scout uncover some higher potential prospects as he scouts the pool? |
03-24-2020, 03:53 PM | #13 |
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To answer the second part of my own question, the answer is no. I manually requested a large portion of the draft pool. My scout has the highest potential as 4. Then, after a couple 3.5s it a whole bunch of 3s and 2.5 Are all the draft pools so mediocre in OOTP21 (its a standard league.)?
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03-24-2020, 04:13 PM | #14 | |
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03-24-2020, 04:49 PM | #15 | |
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This also makes the draft a whole lot less fun. By the time I get to my first pick, the best players left will have a potential rating of, at best, a future bench player or middle reliever. At the end of the first round you aren't going to get superstars, but there should be players left with the POTENTIAL to be regular big leaguers. My scouting maximum is at the league maximum, and 32% of it is going to amateur scouting. I don't know what other problems there could be on my end. |
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03-24-2020, 05:01 PM | #16 |
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I roll with results. There are plenty of occasions in which my scout says to me, “What are you looking for specifically? Maybe I can dig deeper and feel better about one of these guys working out for you.”
It’s never been there, that one, he’ll be great!!
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03-25-2020, 12:44 PM | #17 | |
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Why do some players drop down a notch and not others? If I look at the scouting report history, sometimes the numerical estimates of (say) Contact has change by one, sometimes none of the ratings changed. Yet the report has gone a tic in accuracy. Why?
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03-25-2020, 03:24 PM | #18 |
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How does this work if I play in manager only mode? Does scout just randomly scout players or can I assign work as a manager?
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03-26-2020, 03:48 PM | #20 |
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Another thing I'm noticing when scouting the draft pool, is that the 'Approximate Duration' becomes meaningless when you re-scout. That is, I get the usual range of 7 to 9 days, but the report pops up the next day. The result moves the Scouting Accuracy up on all the players.
This is true of both the group of players I'm rescouting, and those I'm adding for the first time. A possible answer is that the scout has seen these 'new' requests while doing the original batch of kids. However, how would that be programmed? I understand how that happens in real life, but how would that have been written in code?
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