Yeah this has randomly happened to me a few times, I can't remember if they had a story or not but probably so.
I don't think there is really anything you can do about it. If you are offline you could temporarily control another team and you should be able to fully scout them with the other team (I did that once and it worked I was able to fully scout under the other team).
It is sort of a cheat I suppose, although really this seems to be a bug. And really you are only giving yourself 5 extra scouting points doing that (or 3 on your scouting specialty position), so you could just choose to leave yourself with 10 points left that week to balance the extra you got by temporarily controlling another team. You get 5 of them back the next week and you lose 5 of them, which balances out the 5 extra you got controlling the other team.