[Chris Johnson]

Many of you aren't understanding the issue. The reason that many online leagues do not use scouts in their current form is that the save game files become way too big to download. So we can't really use them. It may be realistic to publish the list every year, but it is extremely unrealistic for those who do not have scouts to be stuck with that list, and only that list, to do a relative overall comparison of different prospects on different teams. As somebody else put it, I can't just "send out a scout" to look at a prospect if we aren't using scouts at all. So the list serves as a crude scouting system of its own in online leagues.

This either must be an option or make the save game files small enough so that online leagues can use scouts. Otherwise we're back into the one step forward, two steps back OOTP development mode. Since the star system is worthless on its own, that system plus the top 100 are the only scouting that can be done in the non-scout world.