MLB The Show 13 Official Scouting/Prospect/Development Thread

[3fiddy]

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Hahahaha that's awesome!

I'm totally stoked !!

Only 18 tho. It's gonna be awhile lol

[JoeMimic]

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I'm totally stoked !!

Only 18 tho. It's gonna be awhile lol

Hey you could play a few minor league games along the way and get a feel for his pitches.

[3fiddy]

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Hey you could play a few minor league games along the way and get a feel for his pitches.

I'm part of a 3 user franchise and we play everygame. Im excited to use him tho so I would be fine if we all started simmimg a week here and there. To help the season move along. Hopefully they are just as excited ab their picks. I would also sim my MLB game and play my AA game for his starts next year. I had a compensation pick also and took a higher potential rhp. So to double them together be fun too. I like his repertoire jus gotta see how they actually work.

Alot of my excitement comes from the fact one guy simmed thru it. I went berserk lol So we went back to our last save date 5 days previous and I got my guy. Also have a RTTS going lhp with wie yin chens delivery So this is an awesome integration for my chise !!

Never have I been this interested in Asian pitchers and I'm so glad MLB the show has brought that to me.

[mwjr]

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Yes. The scout will not be as accurate or efficient.

I can confirm this because Ramone told this to me at CD.

Interesting. This brings up a few more questions...

1. When hiring/firing scouts, should I only hire a scout in the east to replace a scout in the east?
2. Is it worth scouting outside of territories? For example, if my Scout in the East is graded 57 scouting pitchers and 91 position players, and my International Scout is graded 89 pitchers and 51 position players, is it worth scouting only position players in the East and only pitchers Internationally? Limiting myself scares me. And that brings me to my last question...
3. Should I be more concerned with getting the best scouts available, regardless of territory, or should I find the best scout for each region? Obviously, I don't want to have all of my scouts from the West, but what if I had 2 scouts in the East, 1 in the West and 1 International, completely ignoring the Central region?

[mwjr]

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I have a system that I use that works pretty well for me. I use the first week of the season to scout only right handed pitchers for all four regions. When I get to the first sunday I switch all scouts to left handed pitchers for all four regions. The next sunday. I will scout all infield propsects for all four regions. Depending on efficiency scouting all infielders in the region typically takes about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks. When they are finished I switch to outfielders. This generally takes about 1 and a half weeks to complete. I then go into the next month with about 5 days to scout catchers. There doesnt seem to be a bunch of catchers in each region so I can generally complete this in about 5 days.

It is then about a month till the draft and I start scouting individual players. I dont necessarily scout by ETA. This is very erratic and changes quite frequently after scouting players. I just go down the list and scout players with there potential bars high in several attributes. I have come away with some great steals. I have yet to see a breakout star though like they described in the developer videos before release such as a mike trout or bryce harper (My team or the computer). After the patch I feel like potential in general has been kind of jacked up.

That seems like a really long time discovering players. Is a month long enough to get enough good scouting info?

[Heroesandvillains]

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Interesting. This brings up a few more questions...When hiring/firing scouts, should I only hire a scout in the east to replace a scout in the east?

I think ideally you should have all regions covered. Obviously, the more you do, the greater the access will be to the entire pool of high potential players.

I currently don't have an international scout. I'd imagine there's quite a few guys that I'd love to draft overseas. But alas...yay America?

Is it worth scouting outside of territories? For example, if my Scout in the East is graded 57 scouting pitchers and 91 position players, and my International Scout is graded 89 pitchers and 51 position players, is it worth scouting only position players in the East and only pitchers Internationally? Limiting myself scares me. And that brings me to my last question...

Obviously, if you want to scout as many players as possible, and as many great players as possible on top of that, scouting where your scout is most effective and in the areas he's most effective in will be the ideal way to do it.

That said, I've scouted positions that my scout wasn't great in. He'll find some players eventually, and get them scouted fully eventually too. It just takes longer and is a gamble because his perception of the player early on shouldn't be taken as accurate.

Should I be more concerned with getting the best scouts available, regardless of territory, or should I find the best scout for each region? Obviously, I don't want to have all of my scouts from the West, but what if I had 2 scouts in the East, 1 in the West and 1 International, completely ignoring the Central region?

My stock SCEA Braves again do not have an international scout. And, most of my scouts only excel at pitchers. I'd have to assume if there was anything wrong with that from a coding perspective, SCEA wouldn't have made it this way for launch. As long as it's balanced accordingly around the league (which I assume it is).

I look at it as some teams just have strengths in certain areas and weaknesses in others.

[Heroesandvillains]

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That seems like a really long time discovering players. Is a month long enough to get enough good scouting info?

I think the CPU (Auto) discovers for thee weeks to start the season, and then begins targeting specific players.

[Bobhead]

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This is a great thread. I really like the scouting system this year. The tutorial/guide could have been a lot better, but scouting is definitely a lot more fun and interesting than it's ever been in any game.

[railsldr]

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I'm not really sure if the players are same but I drafted a RF named Bobby Moreno, thank god I just got him to sign a 6 year deal. He is 23, A potential, 94 overall. At the all star break in his first season as the full on starter he is hitting .293, 24 HR, 90 RBI. I also just hit 2 HR's of 492 and 493 feet in the home run derby with him.

Con vs. R - 75
Con vs. L -63
Pow vs. R - 89
Pow vs. L - 74

[forkspoonknife]

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I drafted a SS 14th overall pick and he started out as a 74 overall with 80 Con vs L and 75 Con vs R. Very good speed and baserunning (70+) and every other stat was very balanced. He quickly rose up to the bigs (now 91 overall) and his rookie season stats were .315 AVG, 18 HRs, 88 RBIs, 45 SBs won RoY, Silver Slugger AND a Gold Glove. His power is developing well and will be my star player for a long time to come.

[mwjr]

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Thanks for the insight, Heroesandvillains.


So here's another question for the group: after discovery is finished, how do you determine which individuals to scout? Do you go by Potential? ETA?

[Heroesandvillains]

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Thanks for the insight, Heroesandvillains.


So here's another question for the group: after discovery is finished, how do you determine which individuals to scout? Do you go by Potential? ETA?

I haven't done the draft yet (43 games in), but here's how I've been doing it so far.

1. I discover in the regions my scouts live in (in my world, it seems to make sense that they live in their region...and their wives must not let them travel. Bachelor scouts from the East would probably make a commute West, no questions asked. Mine are all married and commanded to stay put).

2. I select players to my scout's strength, generally.

3. I look at ETA first, and then select the player based on his potential and the type of ratings that would compliment my Farm System.

4. If no player seems to fit that mold, I scout whom I percieve to be the best overall player (obviously, I could always trade him if I had no use for him, getting in return either another prospect or a veteran if I needed one at the time).

5. I scout the player until I'm satisfied with what I see (usually between 75%-100%).

6. I either repeat step 3 or go back into discovery, depending on what I see.

Next season, though, I plan to do what the CPU does by starting the season with three weeks of discover, and then straight scouting up to the Draft (until the player is at 75%). With The Show, I like to keep things level between me and the computer (which is why I Auto Field/Classic pitch/etc.).

Not that THEY do it best; it's just the way they do it. Which is what I will do, next season (same rules as above, minus the going in and out of discovery phase).

[NEOPARADIGM]

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I'm giving him Hideo Nomos wind up.

Which delivery would that be? Last I knew Nomo's wasn't in the game and never has been.

[3fiddy]

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Which delivery would that be? Last I knew Nomo's wasn't in the game and never has been.

I havnt searched yet. he's really not there ?

[HechticSooner]

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When it comes to the discovery part of scouting to you have to assign them to a position or pitcher and types or can you leave all that blank and they will just find anyone and anything? In otherwords can I just assign them to regions and be done with it and have them actually do anything?