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Originally Posted by BirdWatcher
Something I find myself thinking about today (and this is a post that sort of lives partly outside of the WPK universe and partly within it- just as a warning) is the organizational trends thus far in the short history of the Denver Brewers.
I find myself wondering how much of this has to do with my biases, how much it has to do with my head scout's biases and/or my coaching staff's (up and down the organization) approaches and skills (or lack thereof), how much it has to do with the makeup of the talent in the WPK universe thus far, and how much is just luck.
There has certainly emerged a Brewers type of player (at least in terms of position players) and much of that I think is reflective of my own biases. A Brewers player is defensively gifted and speedy and usually a hard worker and a good teammate. They are often versatile. And they hit a good number of doubles and triples and even the occasional inside-the-park home run. But, by and large, they don't connect for many conventional home runs.
And it seems like even when the Brewers draft a player who seems to have the potential for at least above-average HR power, either that potential proves to be illusory or they just fail to develop at all and they languish in the minors and/or are traded away.
When I'm in front of the game again later tonight I'll be looking at minor league HR totals for my teams and how they compare to the rest of the leagues they play in, curious to see just how systemic this trend is or if my perception of things is skewed.
Not going to say much more about that now but you can expect that I will be revisiting this topic in the future. Time will tell whether there really is an organizational approach at work here or if is just the way the cards have fallen thus far. And, maybe more importantly, time will tell if the team can win with this combination of skills and deficits.
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What are the Scout settings? What is the profile of your scout? Will you post him, here?
It's the symmetry of merging your GM preferences with your Scouts analysis, that ramp up the fun of steering the team (for me). I'm guessing a lot of GM's look at it that way. I can't imagine not having Scouts as part of my experience. Ironically, when I first started playing OOTP, I thought they were unnecessary and a waste. My Scouting accuracy for the FBL is 'normal'.