Way too many Scouting Discoveries!!

Billy 5 · 03-19-2024, 11:58 PM

The number of international scouting discoveries reverted to insane levels in this version. The minimum is 8. If you have a 25 person US draft, that equates to about 25% foreign rate at a minimum - ie, not counting any free agent foreign amateurs. If you go to the default level (16 per team), that is 39%of all players just on discoveries.

For a purely modern perspective, 8 per team (not 16 or 32 or 64!) is doable. You can get to 28% or so foreign from there. But in historic sims, it makes no sense at all. Versions 22-24 had a logical approach. Does anybody else see this as a problem? Am I alone in trying to keep a quasi realistic foreign percentage for historic sims? I know there can be work arounds, but why?

Carplos · 03-20-2024, 09:39 AM

Yeah, I enabled it on a league of mine where I wanted "few", but it's way too many. We need a setting less than "few" or the levels need to be re-adjusted.

prokofiev1 · 03-23-2024, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Carplos

Yeah, I enabled it on a league of mine where I wanted "few", but it's way too many. We need a setting less than "few" or the levels need to be re-adjusted.

I agree with this. "Few" is not few when you only have sixteen teams in your historical league. Maybe "Few" is few when you are playing with 32 teams? Should it scale to the size of the league, or does it?

Phew.

Billy 5 · 03-25-2024, 03:54 PM

The "generate international amateurs" does scale to league size (you can select I think 2x, 4x, 6x or 8x). You can always also just create any number that you want fairly easily by creating X number of players.

However, the "international amateur scouting discoveries per team" - which places players directly to a teams international complex - does not. The fewest number of scouting discoveries in OOTP 25 is 8 players- which is a lot. in prior versions it was 1 or 2, then 4 before getting to 8 I think. The new approach is very impractical and makes "international amateur scouting discoveries per team" more or less unusable until you get into the 2000s.

I think it was probably a mistake to revert to such a high number of scouting discoveries and hope they fix it when they get a chance.

03-19-2024, 11:58 PM	#1
Billy 5 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2024 Posts: 2	Way too many Scouting Discoveries!! The number of international scouting discoveries reverted to insane levels in this version. The minimum is 8. If you have a 25 person US draft, that equates to about 25% foreign rate at a minimum - ie, not counting any free agent foreign amateurs. If you go to the default level (16 per team), that is 39%of all players just on discoveries. For a purely modern perspective, 8 per team (not 16 or 32 or 64!) is doable. You can get to 28% or so foreign from there. But in historic sims, it makes no sense at all. Versions 22-24 had a logical approach. Does anybody else see this as a problem? Am I alone in trying to keep a quasi realistic foreign percentage for historic sims? I know there can be work arounds, but why?

03-20-2024, 09:39 AM	#2
Carplos Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,866 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	Yeah, I enabled it on a league of mine where I wanted "few", but it's way too many. We need a setting less than "few" or the levels need to be re-adjusted.

03-25-2024, 03:54 PM	#4
Billy 5 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2024 Posts: 2	The "generate international amateurs" does scale to league size (you can select I think 2x, 4x, 6x or 8x). You can always also just create any number that you want fairly easily by creating X number of players. However, the "international amateur scouting discoveries per team" - which places players directly to a teams international complex - does not. The fewest number of scouting discoveries in OOTP 25 is 8 players- which is a lot. in prior versions it was 1 or 2, then 4 before getting to 8 I think. The new approach is very impractical and makes "international amateur scouting discoveries per team" more or less unusable until you get into the 2000s. I think it was probably a mistake to revert to such a high number of scouting discoveries and hope they fix it when they get a chance.