[NoOne]

from recent experience i've changed my thoughts in international scouting and what it affects.

Those sliders are how the GM chooses budgets for those various things. any related decisions will be influenced in some way by those sliders - either budget or behaviour relative to other managers choices.

Scouting budgets:

ML scouting - obvious
MiL scouting - obvious

Amatuer scouting - Draft, clearly, but i am nearly 100% certain it's the accuracy of international amatuer FA, too. (see below)... i am not sure about ratings of discoveries.. i simply don't care about them anymore they aren't worth it if this budget applies to int'l ama fa.

international scotuing - This one deals with Discoveries, not the int'l ama free agents.

i've recently used 1% for international scouting. I dump extra money into various things depending on what i am spending on that year... so the other 3 budgets are elevated even more than a max scouting budget can provide, typically.

when i sort those Int'l ama FA, their ratings got more accurate and did not lose accuracy... so i said... "hmmmmm?"

clearly, i got improved accuracy because i increased spending in a different scouting area while reducing that scouting budget to what amounts to ~0... the obvious answer is amatuer spending, not ml/mil obviously.

The discoveries are mostly crap in comparison.. .you do get lucky sometimes and a 1% budget is likely going to make that even more non-existent. the international amatuer FA may not have a high chance at development but you will find multiple qualtiy players each year (by potential).... way way more often than discoveries...


so, spending money in international scouting is one of the worst ROI's in the game... no argument about it... empirically true regardless of feelings. find GM's with that slider very low for better results, all other things remaining the same.