Anyone have any tips for scouting players?
I've scouted so many players on franchise mode, but seems like many of them aren't even in the draft class. Some could be 18,others could be 22,either way, seems like no guarantee the guys I'm scouting are even in the draft.
So how do I know if they'll even be part of the draft or not? Cause I don't want to waste my time scouting someone who isn't in that years draft.
Does the MLB ETA determine when he'll be in the draft or something?
I've scouted so many players on franchise mode, but seems like many of them aren't even in the draft class. Some could be 18,others could be 22,either way, seems like no guarantee the guys I'm scouting are even in the draft.
So how do I know if they'll even be part of the draft or not? Cause I don't want to waste my time scouting someone who isn't in that years draft.
Does the MLB ETA determine when he'll be in the draft or something?
), regardless of their salaries, and I try to spread them across all 4 regions. If I can't get them across all 4 regions, then I will find 2 guys in the same region, one with a high pitcher rating and the other with a high PP rating. Then I set the directive for each scout to search for their strong suits and let that run a few days. When I go back there are plenty of players to scout, but we've only scratched the surface, so the next step is to flip the positions being scouted. For PP-strong scouts, I will change the position being scouted between C, IF, and OF. Since there are plenty more pitchers to be found than PP, I will go a few more days and then switch the Pitcher-strong scouts to the opposite hand. After a few more days, I then switch the PP scouts to the last position and let them run a few more days. Since you only have 2 months to scout, this is the point where I may fire all 4 scouts (but don't forget who these guys are), because now that I've found so many players, I no longer care about the discovery trait. If I have a super scout with high PP and Pitcher traits, I may let him continue looking longer, but my emphasis now is having a high efficiency rating paired with high PP and/or Pitcher rating. I try to pair the new scouts to the recently unemployed with region and position, but it doesn't always work out that way. I believe the position being aligned is more important, so, for example, if I had a scout discovering PP's in the West, I'll look for a West scout with high PP and efficiency ratings. In the event there is a scout with much better ratings in those categories, but his region is Central, I'm going with the Central guy. The effect this seems to have is that this oddball scout may be a hair slower scouting guys, but his reports will be more accurate. The reason not to forget your previous scouts is just to make it easier to find them, in the event your new efficient scouts are good at their jobs and scout most of the players. If the unscouted list starts to dwindle, you can always go back and find that awesome scout with high PP and/or Pitcher, and Discovery traits, and have him keep looking while the other 3 scouts keep writing up their reports for you. After the draft, I go back to the page where you hire scouts, hire the 4 cheapest ones and I will rehire the discovery scouts to restart the process all over again after Spring Training. This helps conserve salary to be spent on players in the offseason. Using this process, the first few years I can still land some high potential guys later on and by year 3 or 4, I'm going into drafts with more scouted players than non scouted.
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