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Corsairs · 10-19-2008, 12:06 PM

Our league has just converted to OOTP 9 and a number of owners are complaining that quite suddenly a good number of the players in their system have had their scouting ratings plummet (we are playing with scouting on). Now I know what's coming: with scouting on, it's possible that the scouting director is just misreporting the players' talent. Fair enough, and I also understand that accuracy is affected by scouting budgets and the leanings of individual scouting directors.

However, there's more to this than that. Since I'm commissioner of the league, I can see the ratings through the eyes of each scouting director. The reported ratings drops are truly appearing for everyone, not just teams with lesser scouts. Furthermore, I've run tests where I've equalized scouting budgets for each team and the lowered ratings still appear across the board. The only consistency between the two game versions lies with the SISA-OSA ratings; those remain in the ballpark of one another. I should also mention that scouting accuracy is set to "Normal" in our league.

Somewhere, somehow, there's been a fundemental change to how ratings in our league are being reported. I stress "reported" because I don't believe there's been any change whatsoever in the "true" potential of these players. It's just that the ratings being displayed have tanked across the board. It's like all the scouting directors collectively soured on every baseball player in our universe, and my tests indicate this trend never changes no matter how far we sim forward.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me provide a few thousand words for you. Here is our upcoming draft pool in both OOTP 8 and 9 as rated by a "perfect 100" scout (scouting budgets are equalized league-wide in the OOTP 9 screenshots):

OOTP8 SP:

OOTP9 SP:

OOTP8 LF:

OOTP9 LF:

What in the world could be causing these radical differences in ratings? Here's one thought that just popped into my mind while I was typing: our universe has four foreign leagues with their own custom scouting budgets. Is it possible that the scouting budgets of those leagues is affecting the accuracy of our main league? Just thinking aloud here...

Bonus Question: A hearty, "Thank you!" to the person who can tell me how to get the OOTP background image to scale properly with my monitor's resolution in OOTP 9 like it does in OOTP 8 (see screenshots).

10-19-2008, 12:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
Corsairs All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,904 Thanked 381x in 202 posts	Drastic ratings difference between OOTP 8 and 9 Our league has just converted to OOTP 9 and a number of owners are complaining that quite suddenly a good number of the players in their system have had their scouting ratings plummet (we are playing with scouting on). Now I know what's coming: with scouting on, it's possible that the scouting director is just misreporting the players' talent. Fair enough, and I also understand that accuracy is affected by scouting budgets and the leanings of individual scouting directors. However, there's more to this than that. Since I'm commissioner of the league, I can see the ratings through the eyes of each scouting director. The reported ratings drops are truly appearing for everyone, not just teams with lesser scouts. Furthermore, I've run tests where I've equalized scouting budgets for each team and the lowered ratings still appear across the board. The only consistency between the two game versions lies with the SISA-OSA ratings; those remain in the ballpark of one another. I should also mention that scouting accuracy is set to "Normal" in our league. Somewhere, somehow, there's been a fundemental change to how ratings in our league are being reported. I stress "reported" because I don't believe there's been any change whatsoever in the "true" potential of these players. It's just that the ratings being displayed have tanked across the board. It's like all the scouting directors collectively soured on every baseball player in our universe, and my tests indicate this trend never changes no matter how far we sim forward. A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me provide a few thousand words for you. Here is our upcoming draft pool in both OOTP 8 and 9 as rated by a "perfect 100" scout (scouting budgets are equalized league-wide in the OOTP 9 screenshots): OOTP8 SP: OOTP9 SP: OOTP8 LF: OOTP9 LF: What in the world could be causing these radical differences in ratings? Here's one thought that just popped into my mind while I was typing: our universe has four foreign leagues with their own custom scouting budgets. Is it possible that the scouting budgets of those leagues is affecting the accuracy of our main league? Just thinking aloud here... Bonus Question: A hearty, "Thank you!" to the person who can tell me how to get the OOTP background image to scale properly with my monitor's resolution in OOTP 9 like it does in OOTP 8 (see screenshots). __________________ Commissioner of the Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance (PEBA) and the League of the Rising Sun (LRS) Premiere OOTP fictional leagues where creativity counts and imagination is your only limitation Check for openings - contact us today! Join the PEBA Join the LRS Last edited by Corsairs; 10-19-2008 at 12:23 PM.