[SC_Dawg]

OK I'm confused here and it probably is because i am operating on a lack of sleep however .. Did I just read where someone said the OSA scouting is better than a scouting director with a rating of 20 (I am assuming on a scale of 1-20)?

Well I decided to go look at the league I have been goofing off with and have a 40 year history that I plan to run to 60 years overnight tonight.

Anyhow I took command of one of the teams and his scouting ratings are as follows

Scout Majors: 17
Scout Minors: 16
International Scouting: 17
Scout Amateurs: 17

A very good scout on a 1-20 scale

Now I went and looked at what he thought of a few players on his own team vs what the OSA thought of the same player vs what the actual ratings are. All are on the 1-20 scale except the actuals which are of course on the 1-250 scale.

I first went to the clean-up hitter on the team

Actuals (Scout/OSA/Actual)
Contact: 18/20/170
Gap Power: 13/16/130
Home Run Power: 16/20/167
Eye/Discipline: 14/17/140
Avoid K's: 12/15/117

Potentials
Contact: 18/20/168
Gap Power: 13/16/124
Home Run Power: 16/20/158
Eye/Discipline: 14/17/131
Avoid K's: 13/15/129

Clearly he is much more accurate on an established vet

Now to the teams 1st pick in the last draft

Actuals (Scout/OSA/Actual)
Contact: 5/6/48
Gap Power: 4/5/38
Home Run Power: 1/1/3
Eye/Discipline: 2/3/17
Avoid K's: 2/3/17

Potentials
Contact: 13/17/154
Gap Power: 9/13/130
Home Run Power: 1/2/7
Eye/Discipline: 7/12/87
Avoid K's: 6/11/87

Once again the scout is much more reliable than the OSA.

As I went down the entire roster I saw the same thing over and over again, the scouting director was by and large much more accurate than the OSA.

I fail to see when a competent scouting director is on the staff how it is worse than the OSA. As I said maybe I am missing something here and if I am you will excuse me please.

Now you want more realistic remember that every year MLB holds a draft and there are 30 players who are chosen in the 1st round. How many of them ever pan out to be everything the scouts thought they would be? If the MLB scouts can blow it on player after player and miss on a player like Mike Piazza then surely we can allow a computer game to do it also.