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Originally Posted by Solecismic
Therefore, detailed feedback will always be somewhat misleading in a football simulation. That's why there's much more reliance on scouting in football even after the initial acquisition. You play a baseball game by the stats the player accumulates. You play a football game based on the scouting report and hope the stats follow.
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Scout error is what throws a monkey wrench into this conversation. If I am supposed to look at stats to see how good someone really is, then I need lots of pertinent, accurate stats to paint the picture for me. If I don't get the stats, then I need to trust the scout so I can go look for other reasons (gameplanning?) for why things might be going wrong. If there are incomplete stats and inaccurate scouting reports, I have no idea where to even begin figuring out why I lost 27-17 to a team I thought I could beat so I can improve my gameplanning for the next one. With one or the other, I've got something to work with.