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Originally Posted by cpatte210
Good questions, and I don't have much insight into this either. I always play as if OSA is a baseball 'magazine' that has a general idea of talent but nothing in depth. The magazine looks at the stats, hears the hype, sees a video or two maybe and then posts a rating, and therefore are not as good at truly analyzing a player. Whereas my scout is the guy who goes to the game, watches the player, studies every aspect about the player and finds the flaws that the 'magazine' just doesn't have the skills or time to find.
However, this way of playing might be completely wrong and I would love a more experienced player to weigh in.
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The issue this brings up is that if you play with the AI setting up your minor leagues and handling promotion/lineups - it will give playing time, and promote those prospects that the OSA considers "good" and not so much the ones your scout does. Before the draft i watched this happen - the AI would aggressively focus on the OSA rated guys and not so much on what the scout thought were 'good' - so this affects much more than the draft. I think there's a big choice a player makes - either you trust the AI to demote/promote/set lineups in which case you also have to trust them with the draft reports OR You go with your own Scout which requires you have a ton of time to sort through all your hundred odd players in the minors and micromanage every lineup/DL stint. I'm not sure there's a middling approach.
Oddly enough i think the best draft strategy is to pick the OSA rated prospects through the first 20/25 rounds and then go with your scout rated prospects because A LARGE majority of them will still be there!! This way you can split the difference and make sure you have both prosects you rate highly as well as prospects that are perceived as highly rated by teams which you might want to trade with. Before the draft i looked at all the players and i can count on one hand the players that the OSA and my Scout agreed on.
The key question is whether or not the AI makes its decisions to promote/demote/set lineups and make trade evaluations based upon its own scout's abilities OR based upon OSA evaluation. If it's their own scout then you can make a trade with that team so long as their team's scout is the same profile as yours (i.e. favoring tools, or favoring current ability)