I always though it was the other way around with scout. Highly favour tools = their perception of potential. Highly Favour Ability = perception of actual skill.
Thanks for this. Any tips on setting scouting priorities? My scout always comes back with half a star rated international amateur players with half a star potential even when I have my priority set with a minimum quality. Im only 1 season down, but ive not found anyone worth signing yet.
Thanks for the video. If it is best to use Highly Favour Tools scouts for most scouting, then will a Highly Favour Ability scout be better for scouting your opponents and picking your team for you?
Does scout majors just refer to the players or does that also include teams? I always thought scout majors also included scouting opposing teams which in turn gave you a better chance of being prepared and winning games
Does this also affect trade evaluations by the AI? For example, if your Highly Favor Tools scout sees a 5-star prospect on another team, while that team's Highly Favor Ability scout only rates him as 3-star, will that make it easier to trade for the player? And to compensate for this, do the AI teams with Highly Favor Ability scouts place greater importance on the players they've rated highly and treat them as untouchable, since there will be fewer of them?
Kind of to your first question, not really to the second. So, to my understanding, the AI cheats and uses the players' actual editor ratings (tested by changing a player's editor rating without giving time to rescout and checking trade value), but the type of scout a team has seems to slightly affect their trading preference. Higher potential, younger players can sometimes be easier to get on teams with ability scouts to my understanding, though I'm not 100% confident in that.
Good to know! But just for a different viewpoint I've found another way to peel the scouting banana, I flat out ignore the international players, but not for racism's sake. It's more of making a choice between two halves - I spend $12M - $15M on scouting while deliberately putting my international scouting at zero, my amateurs at 50%, minors at 35%, and majors at 15%, My scout is always great or better at amateurs and good or better for the majors/minors. What I have found is my scout's ratings and estimates for drafting and young FA pickups are pretty spot on (none are ever perfect) at this level of spending, and it's taking roughly three seasons for most of my top prospects to make it up to the major leagues. Still I learned things from your video here and thanks for putting it out there Sgt Mushroom. You definitely do know your stuff!
Certainly up to you how to run your scouting, and that can make sense if you go over your international amateur budget an therefore can't sign any players in a year, but generally you can get a better pool of talent from international amateurs and scouting discoveries than the draft and young free agent signings. If you're spending that much (and that really isn't too much over the minimum), it's also more or less pointless to spend that much on the majors and minors. You could go down to 5% majors and probably 25% minors (maybe even a little less), and you're probably not going to get much better returns on your investment for the amateurs over 40% anyways. (Which would already open up 30% for international just by shaving relatively less useful spending.)
@@sgtmushroom Thanks for the reply and explanation, it is appreciated. My rationale for the excluding international players is I seem to be unable to sign a true 5-star recruit from the international pools that doesn't drop immediately to 2.5 stars or worse, once assigned to my camp or minors. A three star international RP is the best I've gotten to the majors so far, which is why I abandoned overpaying for them. Even with $5M pool money to spend and a great scout with a setup of 10% major/30% minors/30%amateurs/30% international the international player stars often appear superior than draftees but the actual and prospect stars swing more wildly once signed than the draftees do in my experience. Again thanks for replying and your explanation makes sense - but I'm doing something wrong then with my game! lol!
Why would my entire teams ratings drop signifigantly all at once at the end or spring training? Please help! Did not hire new scout in offseason hired better coaches in minors. Alcantara dropped 25 points from an 80 to 55 at the end of spring training 2:01
I would need specifics to be able to give you the why on this. If you're looking at overall ratings, it's possible the game recalculated overall ratings relative to the league, causing your players to drop there even though their talent is roughly the same. There is also a well known glitch where overall ratings can fluctuate, but again, that doesn't mean a player's ratings have changed. I would need more information to give you other ideas, but as long as their core ratings are the same, it doesn't really matter.
The Reds have better scouting accuracy on the draftees. A lot of those 5 star prospects on the Cubs scouting report are low or very low, which most likely will turn to 3-4 stars once they have >average scouting accuracy.
I always though it was the other way around with scout. Highly favour tools = their perception of potential. Highly Favour Ability = perception of actual skill.
Editor potential /=/ likely true potential
This was an amazing update video, thank you. What's the suggested max development budget before returns on spending diminish?
Thanks for this. Any tips on setting scouting priorities? My scout always comes back with half a star rated international amateur players with half a star potential even when I have my priority set with a minimum quality. Im only 1 season down, but ive not found anyone worth signing yet.
Thanks for the video. If it is best to use Highly Favour Tools scouts for most scouting, then will a Highly Favour Ability scout be better for scouting your opponents and picking your team for you?
Does scout majors just refer to the players or does that also include teams? I always thought scout majors also included scouting opposing teams which in turn gave you a better chance of being prepared and winning games
Does this also affect trade evaluations by the AI? For example, if your Highly Favor Tools scout sees a 5-star prospect on another team, while that team's Highly Favor Ability scout only rates him as 3-star, will that make it easier to trade for the player? And to compensate for this, do the AI teams with Highly Favor Ability scouts place greater importance on the players they've rated highly and treat them as untouchable, since there will be fewer of them?
Good question
Kind of to your first question, not really to the second. So, to my understanding, the AI cheats and uses the players' actual editor ratings (tested by changing a player's editor rating without giving time to rescout and checking trade value), but the type of scout a team has seems to slightly affect their trading preference. Higher potential, younger players can sometimes be easier to get on teams with ability scouts to my understanding, though I'm not 100% confident in that.
I can't even find where the scouting options are in the menu
Good to know! But just for a different viewpoint I've found another way to peel the scouting banana, I flat out ignore the international players, but not for racism's sake. It's more of making a choice between two halves - I spend $12M - $15M on scouting while deliberately putting my international scouting at zero, my amateurs at 50%, minors at 35%, and majors at 15%, My scout is always great or better at amateurs and good or better for the majors/minors.
What I have found is my scout's ratings and estimates for drafting and young FA pickups are pretty spot on (none are ever perfect) at this level of spending, and it's taking roughly three seasons for most of my top prospects to make it up to the major leagues. Still I learned things from your video here and thanks for putting it out there Sgt Mushroom. You definitely do know your stuff!
Certainly up to you how to run your scouting, and that can make sense if you go over your international amateur budget an therefore can't sign any players in a year, but generally you can get a better pool of talent from international amateurs and scouting discoveries than the draft and young free agent signings. If you're spending that much (and that really isn't too much over the minimum), it's also more or less pointless to spend that much on the majors and minors. You could go down to 5% majors and probably 25% minors (maybe even a little less), and you're probably not going to get much better returns on your investment for the amateurs over 40% anyways. (Which would already open up 30% for international just by shaving relatively less useful spending.)
@@sgtmushroom Thanks for the reply and explanation, it is appreciated. My rationale for the excluding international players is I seem to be unable to sign a true 5-star recruit from the international pools that doesn't drop immediately to 2.5 stars or worse, once assigned to my camp or minors. A three star international RP is the best I've gotten to the majors so far, which is why I abandoned overpaying for them. Even with $5M pool money to spend and a great scout with a setup of 10% major/30% minors/30%amateurs/30% international the international player stars often appear superior than draftees but the actual and prospect stars swing more wildly once signed than the draftees do in my experience. Again thanks for replying and your explanation makes sense - but I'm doing something wrong then with my game! lol!
Why would my entire teams ratings drop signifigantly all at once at the end or spring training? Please help! Did not hire new scout in offseason hired better coaches in minors. Alcantara dropped 25 points from an 80 to 55 at the end of spring training 2:01
I would need specifics to be able to give you the why on this. If you're looking at overall ratings, it's possible the game recalculated overall ratings relative to the league, causing your players to drop there even though their talent is roughly the same. There is also a well known glitch where overall ratings can fluctuate, but again, that doesn't mean a player's ratings have changed. I would need more information to give you other ideas, but as long as their core ratings are the same, it doesn't really matter.
The Reds have better scouting accuracy on the draftees. A lot of those 5 star prospects on the Cubs scouting report are low or very low, which most likely will turn to 3-4 stars once they have >average scouting accuracy.
Yes, he said that about bust percentage
what game is this? it looks really cool
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