[CBeisbol]

After reading and watching some videos I've lowered the percent I spend on scouting majors. OSA scouting does a better job with veteran players and they have a statistical track record so there's less ROI on scouting majors.

As to never looking at scouting, you'd be missing a lot of information. If a player has been a consistent 120ish wRC+ hitter and has a 100 wRC+ season. Solely by statistics - BABIP might help you figure out if it was a bad year or a change in talent. But scouting can also help you figure that out (and if a decrease in BABIP was related to a change in skill).

Scouting can also help you see changes in player skill before it shows up in the statistcs. A player who drops during the offseason, won't have any stats to show that until a good part of the next season has been played. Or a player coming off an injury.

And looking only at statistics, it will be hard to determine a young players' potential.


If you can get enough information only from statistics, no, there would be no reason to spend on scouting. I think scouting does provide extra information.


EDIT: sometimes people play with the ratings hidden as a way to increase the difficulty. As well as using different rating systems (1-5 instead of 1-100) to decrease the precision of scouting