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OOTP Scouts- Traditional or Quantitative?
I would like to make the case for having the option of scouts providing a predicted statistical line for players. It seems that scouts in OOTP are meant to be understood as traditional scouts (scouting tools, etc.). Their evaluations of and distinctions between players, however, are made with a precision that is what you would see from an analytics department. A one-point change (on the relative scale) in Contact for values over 50 (on the absolute scale), for example, represent a difference of one point of batting average- one hit per one thousand at-bats! These judgments can then be "fitted" onto a scale similar to the one used by traditional scouts, but all this really does is provide a way to make the game harder by taking the natural imperfection of talent evaluation and adding restrictions on the precision with which the scout can present his judgments to the GM. This is fine for making the game harder, but it is also an illogical system of organizational communication and one that no team would use.
If the scouts are going to evaluate talent and changes thereof in terms of a hit or two or a fraction of a home run per one thousand at bats, why not offer the option to have them present a predicted statistical line for the player- as a statistical forecast is, in effect, how they are assessing players?
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12-13-2020, 12:14 AM
