How do you reveal amateur player attributes via scouting??

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  • jaibubwan
    Rookie
    • Feb 2017
    • 156

    #1

    How do you reveal amateur player attributes via scouting??

    In my first season of Franchise Mode. I turned off "Fog Of War". But it still applies to amateur scouting.

    And the problem is that I can't figure out how to get actual *ATTRIBUTES* for amateur players (ex. Speed:90, Deking:70, Bodychecking:80, etc.)

    At first, I tried "Find Prospects". But that seems to only give me a list of players.

    Then I tried "Scout Specific Players > Skills Assessment". But that only gives me vague "A-F" grades on skill areas.

    Now it's freaking January...and I have nothing!

    Please help me...how do you reveal specific amateur attributes (even if they're not accurate)?
    Last edited by jaibubwan; 01-03-2019, 10:45 AM.
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  • SeattleBattleCat
    Pro
    • Nov 2017
    • 710

    #2
    Re: How do you reveal amateur player attributes via scouting??

    Sorry I know you asked this some time ago... BTW I'm in no way perfect, but I'll try and answer as best as I have figured it to work for me.

    Firstly:
    1). Are you referring to the current draft class of prospects? (That's what I think you are referring to)

    or

    2). Are you referring to prospects that have been drafted & trying to learn their ratings after being drafted?

    If its number 1, you will not get any number ratings for the prospects you scout. All you can do to get an idea as to how they are rated is by the letter ratings (A-E).
    Its not a bad thing, I have deduced that the letter ratings usually pan out something like the below:

    From (Plus to minus)
    A - 85-75
    B - 75-70
    C - 69 -60
    D - 59-52
    E - 51-45
    *again not accurate, but is around where I have seen ratings after they have been drafted.

    To me their potential (Med Top6F, Low Top6D etc etc) & Strengths & weaknesses are the most important, however the letter ratings will at least give you an idea as to how "NHL ready" your prospect will be, or at least how long it might take to develop.

    I manually scout amateurs, it's taken me a while to build an OK list of scouts, still not perfect either by no means.
    In my mind, if I have accurate ratings (A-E), accurate strengths/weaknesses & accurate potential, that is all I need.
    The method I've become comfortable with is as follows, & is pretty simple I guess:

    1. Scout Specific Players.
    2. Select "Potential & Comparison" pretty much whole the season.
    Scouting "Potential & Comparison" is the longest of all options you have to choose from, however selecting that option also means the scout also picks up on the prospect's other attributes. (Play style, strengths/weakness, character, etc). The players that are rated higher by Central Scouting, I always find, that you will unlock all of their ratings very quickly & then you do not need to continue to scout that player again.
    It is the players further down the list that you will need to scout 3 or 4 times to uncover their ratings & potentials (additionally, a poor rated scout takes longer to uncover ratings than a good one). I usually do not go any further down the Central Scouting list than about #220, unless i happen to find an individual player that looks interesting.

    Towards the end of the season, drawing closer to draft day, the list of players I need to continually scout, gets smaller & smaller, so it is around April/May/June, that I will even start sending my pro scouts to help with amateur scouting to refine the list as best as possible.
    You will never get a perfect list, but by this time you will have found most of your gems/busts etc.

    With the 20 scouts I have on my list, I have tried to make sure my best 12 are amateur scouts & the cheaper, more average, low wage scouts (the last 8) are the pro scouts.
    In regards to the pro-scouts, I have them set on automatic, which is just fine for me & if there is something specific I want to know, such as a players ratings before trade deadline, I find I can get those ratings really easy via setting a pro scout to an individual task through a pro players stat page.

    Sorry, you probably wanted a more simple answer than that, I kind of turned this into "How I scout & how it works for me" but hopefully that might offer some help. There could be a better way to do it, this is just how it works for me.
    Last edited by SeattleBattleCat; 01-10-2019, 09:12 PM.

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    • jaibubwan
      Rookie
      • Feb 2017
      • 156

      #3
      Re: How do you reveal amateur player attributes via scouting??

      Thanks for the detailed post @SeattleBattleCat. The number guidelines are a life-saver! Luckily I hadn't advanced much since posting the original question.

      I'll be using your post as a guideline to making drafting decisions. Will report back if I notice anything interesting.
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      • Jatt96
        Rookie
        • Oct 2016
        • 260

        #4
        Re: How do you reveal amateur player attributes via scouting??

        Originally posted by SeattleBattleCat
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        Is there any reason to have pro scouts if you don't have Fog of War on?

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