Comparing Scouted Potential to Actual Potential

Vid00d · 08-06-2018, 06:41 PM

Hello,

I'm looking to create a table that will compare a group of prospect's scouted potential ratings to actual potential ratings found in the player's editing screen. The purpose of this is to find "gems" that the AI will overlook and that can be traded for/drafted easily.

Sometimes, even when you max out a team's scouting department and head scout, the ratings are still a bit off. I realize that this is technically cheating, but there appears to be no way to compare actual to potential without going into the player's editing screen and marking down their ratings.

I'm thinking that one way to do this is to make a shortlist of all prospects with, say, 50 overall potential and below according to OSA, with Scouting Accuracy set to Normal. Then, change Scouting Accuracy to 100% and load that shortlist with the new, 100% accurate scouting ratings. This seems like a solution, but I can't figure out how to add multiple players to a shortlist simultaneously.

Any ideas?

battists · 08-07-2018, 08:45 AM

The challenge with this is while you can see YOUR scouted potentials, there’s no guarantee that the AI scouts see a player the same way. You can’t see the other teams’ scouting numbers unless you go into each with commish “act as” one at s time.

And btw, this is straight up cheating, nothing “technical” about it.

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Josquin · 08-15-2018, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Vid00d

Sometimes, even when you max out a team's scouting department and head scout, the ratings are still a bit off. I realize that this is technically cheating, but there appears to be no way to compare actual to potential without going into the player's editing screen and marking down their ratings.

When I did a similar comparison with draft pool players, I noticed that the OSA ratings were much more accurate than your Scouting Director, even if his scouting ability is very high and he has a generous budget. In the draft, it is much better to trust the OSA ratings, since they never seem to be off by much. This makes the Scouting Director pretty useless, IMO.

08-06-2018, 06:41 PM	#1
Vid00d Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 34	Comparing Scouted Potential to Actual Potential Hello, I'm looking to create a table that will compare a group of prospect's scouted potential ratings to actual potential ratings found in the player's editing screen. The purpose of this is to find "gems" that the AI will overlook and that can be traded for/drafted easily. Sometimes, even when you max out a team's scouting department and head scout, the ratings are still a bit off. I realize that this is technically cheating, but there appears to be no way to compare actual to potential without going into the player's editing screen and marking down their ratings. I'm thinking that one way to do this is to make a shortlist of all prospects with, say, 50 overall potential and below according to OSA, with Scouting Accuracy set to Normal. Then, change Scouting Accuracy to 100% and load that shortlist with the new, 100% accurate scouting ratings. This seems like a solution, but I can't figure out how to add multiple players to a shortlist simultaneously. Any ideas?

08-07-2018, 08:45 AM	#2
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	The challenge with this is while you can see YOUR scouted potentials, there’s no guarantee that the AI scouts see a player the same way. You can’t see the other teams’ scouting numbers unless you go into each with commish “act as” one at s time. And btw, this is straight up cheating, nothing “technical” about it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ Come check out my dynasty report, Funky Times!