Scouting

Scouting 101

Players on your own roster are always viewed with your scouting points applied, as long as you are logged in. To view the unscouted (some times referred to as zero scout) values for players on your own roster, you must log out. The quickest way to achieve this is to utilize the private/incognito/etc mode of your internet browser. To do this;

• From your Roster page with Show Player's Potential Ratings expanded
• Right click on the roster level link you wish to see as unscouted, and open in new private/incognito mode. This will reopen the roster page desired with your account logged out.
• In this window are now the unscouted ratings for your roster.
• The page you are logged in will display your roster with ratings having your scouting points applied.

Players on another team's roster are always viewed with 50% of your scouting points applied while logged in. If you have 8 scouting points, players on another roster are viewed with 4 scouting points. To view the unscouted values for players on another roster, you must log out, again the quickest way is to follow the steps listed above. . To determine how many points of scouting you have, please check the front office allocations page.

Players in free agency or in the draft list are viewed at 0 points of scouting while viewing the list. Viewing the player card for any of these players will show their ratings at 50% of your scouting points.

When comparing the scouted ratings to the unscouted ratings, you will be able to determine if a player is over-scouted or under-scouted. An over-scouted player means his unscouted ratings are higher than his scouted ratings. For example:

Player A has an unscouted BA rating of 90. With 5 points of scouting you see that same player has a BA rating of 80. That same player, with 7 points of scouting, may show a BA rating of 75. With 3 points of scouting, he may show a rating of 85. In actuality, his scouted BA is probably in the 68-72 range. This process of estimating a player's ratings based on less than full (10/10) scouting points is referred to by the CSFBL Community as Extrapolating.

While it is possible to estimate the actual player ratings based on scouted information, its important to note that the progression is not always linear, meaning that in the example above, you can't be certain that a ratings drop of 10 points based on 5/10 scouting means a ratings drop of 20 points with full scouting. Keep in mind that in addition to over-scouts and under-scouts, there are also mis-scouts, who are a lot harder to identify if at all. The most accurate way to know your players fully scouted ratings is to fully fund both hitting and batting scouting points in your front office allocations page.