Scouting Report Inconsistency

[HawkyTom]

Hello, trying to play a stats-only league and I've come across the following scouting report that has me confused!


-Scouting Turned ON
-Scouting Accuracy: Very Low (will be unreliable, but shouldn't be 'stupid')
-Created Scouts for every team with 'Decent' Ratings across the board and neutral favoring on tools/ability.


18yr old LF Ivan Wilson (has no stats...this is 2013 amateur draft of mlb quickstart, real life draftee)

SUMMARY:
Won't be a big league hitter.


CONTACT:
Won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching. Perhaps a .330 hitter.


POWER:
He'll hit one out once in a great while.


EYE:
Swings early and often, often disregarding whether or not the pitcher has thrown the ball. Won't make it far as a hitter.


Defense:
Wilson is inconsistent with his fielding.


SPEED:
Well below-average runner.


PERSONALITY/MAKEUP:
One of the Guys.

What the heck?? Is this some sort of typo? How could the scout possible think this guy will hit .330 if he's 'not a big league hitter'.


How exactly the whole scouting report system works is really confusing to me. Are they always referring/predicting to how they will do in MLB someday? Or is he saying that someday he could hit .330 in rookie league? or whatever current league they are playing in, etc...

[Charlie Hough]

This could be a bug or an unintended consequence of the very low accuracy setting. Quite honestly, that setting is so far down the chain that I would actually expect stupidity.

The reports are relative to the major league level. They're not predicting what they'll do in rookie ball

[HawkyTom]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

The reports are relative to the major league level. They're not predicting what they'll do in rookie ball

Thanks, good to know! Wanted to make sure.

[Fyrestorm3]

So, I just took a look around my minor league system, and found two players with the following "Contact" scouting reports:

"Won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching. Perhaps a .270 hitter."
"Won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching. Perhaps a .260 hitter."

So, I think this is an unintentional bug in regards to scouting accuracy. The game runs the guy's stats through the scouting engine, produces his scouting report, and it labels him as "won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching." And then the second sentence of that report is run through the scouting engine again, to give you a variation on what the scout predicts his batting average to be. While that makes sense, I'm guessing that, at "Very Low" scouting accuracy, it's possible for the game to spit out a number as high as .330 in that situation, which leads to the incongruous scouting report you're seeing.

I'm certain it was not designed this way; I'm going to agree with Charlie and call it an unintended consequence of having Very Low scouting accuracy.

[HawkyTom]

Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3

So, I just took a look around my minor league system, and found two players with the following "Contact" scouting reports:

"Won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching. Perhaps a .270 hitter."
"Won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching. Perhaps a .260 hitter."

So, I think this is an unintentional bug in regards to scouting accuracy. The game runs the guy's stats through the scouting engine, produces his scouting report, and it labels him as "won't be able to consistently hit top-level pitching." And then the second sentence of that report is run through the scouting engine again, to give you a variation on what the scout predicts his batting average to be. While that makes sense, I'm guessing that, at "Very Low" scouting accuracy, it's possible for the game to spit out a number as high as .330 in that situation, which leads to the incongruous scouting report you're seeing.

I'm certain it was not designed this way; I'm going to agree with Charlie and call it an unintended consequence of having Very Low scouting accuracy.

Very good explanation, I like your idea...so I think I'll run with that and just consider it true!