Turning off Scouts and Changing Ratings

[karadur]

The league I'm in, and on the gov. board, is considering turning off scouting and possibly changing the ratings scale from 1-20 Rat. 1-10 Talent, to something like 1-10 Rat. 1-5 Talent with stars instead of overall. We are in our fourth season and I am curious what you all think these changes will have on the game (ratings balance without scout finds/financial adjustments/whatever) and to see if any of you have experience with changing these things mid stream.

[Kelric]

No experience here, but changing the ratings scale should have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the way the game actually plays.

Whether you have the game showing 1-20, 1-10, 1-5 or 1-100 will not matter in the least. The game tracks everybody on a 1-250 scale behind the scenes, the ratings and talents that you see are just approximations of their 1-250 'real' ratings.

As for not having scouts find new players internationally disrupting the balance of the overall ratings in a league... I have absolutely no idea. I don't play with scouts.

How often does a team in your league find a player that would otherwise not be in the amateur draft?

[karadur]

Originally Posted by Kelric

How often does a team in your league find a player that would otherwise not be in the amateur draft?

Purely an estimate but I would say about 6-10 per team per year (36 teams) and of those about 2-5 are ML ready and in some cases very high actual ratings.