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Originally Posted by PAtricapillus
Keep it real. Scouting services, like Baseball America, are independent entities delivering information to fans of the game. It is interesting to see where out favorite prospects measure up with others in the game. It is nice to have a Top 100 list at the beginning of the year, it is a nice benchmark to look back at and compare the development of the various prospects...
A General Manager will also want to keep tabs on team's prospects, so it is realistic to have a scouting team keep you updated on other team's prize prospects. These results aren't published in a national magazine, they are in house and they serve the GM in his pursuit of trades. This also serves to "Keep it Real".
Offer a bi-weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly update on your organizational prospect ranking as well as the pre-season Baseball America Top 100.
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The thing is, some people, like me, prefer to remove the limitations of the "real world". As I've said before, it's as if actual ratings were suddenly to disappear because in real life they are not really visible. It's not a bad idea to play without ratings - but it might be a bad idea to restrict the choices that would make the game more enjoyable for some. I find scouts thoroughly non-enjoyable, and I'd much rather see the actual list of best prospects whenever I want to check it out, removing the limitations of "real life". It's not because real life reports are approximate that OOTP needs to "throttle" and be inefficient to match real life. I can understand why some would want to mimic real life better, and I have no problem with it - what I have a problem with is to be forced to see incomplete data when the game is fully capable of offering me complete data. It's a matter of taste, and without some option, there will be unhappy people.