"Scout Impression"
 

Hi all,
When your scout gives you his impression of a scouted prospoect, how do you know what it means? Does "underrated" mean that he is even better than people think, or does it mean he is worse? In short who do I want to draft, under/overrated or hard to read guys?

Can anyone break it down for me
Underrated = ?
Overrated = ?
Hard to Read = ?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me

Overrated and underrated relate to the bars that you see.

Underrated = "I think he's better than his bars."
Overrated = "I think he's worse than his bars."
Hard to Read = "I'm not sure."

Oh SkyDog, where would I be without you?
Thanks alot for your help

Hhmmmm, do I sense sarcasm???

No no, I'm being serious. He answers almost all of my questions perfectly, and quickly!:)
No sarcasm whatsoever, just genuine gratitude.

Wow, several patches ago this was a *really* tough question to try to answer. (And the answer was completely different)

I still don't totally agree with this either.

With my 3 QBs in a career I had detailed on here, it looked to me that the "rated-ness" translated well to how they filled out the bars between the gray and the orange you see pre training camp. The underrated guys got more into the orange, while the overrated guy just caped his grays mainly.

I'd be hesitant to draw any conclusions from just 3 guys. Sometimes the scout is just wrong, and it's far too easy to have that come into play on a small set like that.

For quite some time since the release of 6.0e (the last tweak to the way UR/OR works), I tracked the combine scores and ratings of every guy I drafted in both SP and MP in a spreadsheet. Of the 250+ guys I've got in spreadsheets, the definition I used is correct in roughly 85-90% of cases. And of the 50-100 I've drafted in 6.1a, nothing appears to have changed.