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Its been pointed out that the scouting reports improve over time, at least for the players on one's own team that the scout is "seeing" repeatedly. The scouting for the inaugural draft seems pretty well unuseable, and you don't seem to to be able to adjust the scouting budget before that first draft. I started a fictional league with a pretty average scout, and the results were awful. The guys he rated highly turned out to be worthless and I ended up with an entire team making the major-league minimum. I'm in my fourth year with that team and I'm just now approaching mediocrity. It's an interesting challenge, but I think in my next league I'll turn the scouting off and try to get some decent players in the draft!
Last year's scouting system did seem cumbersome, but it wasn't too bad if you assigned certain scouts to a particular league and just had them either cycle through the teams or do an in-depth scout. I used to have my head scout do each major-league team in turn and had my club listed repeatedly to stay current on my own players. Had one or two other scouts start at the other end of the league, so I was getting lots of current info on the teams. I miss the mutiple opinions you could get from different scouts, and I certainly don't like having to wait for updated scouting reports, especially on my own team. I wish it were possible to add a couple of "special assignment" scouts on to the OOTP9 system, so that you could at least focus on a particular area and get more frequently updated scouting reports. I don't mind the budget allocations affecting accuracy overall, but I'd like the problems with the inaugural draft to be addressed so that it's made practical to use one's scout for it.
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