Scouting

Scouting is an essential part of baseball - teams employ scouts to assess the skills and potential of young players. Though important scouting is not an exact science, as some players may exceed expectations, while others may fall short.

The Scouting System in BaseHit

In BaseHit, we have aThe scouting system thatin addsBaseHit is designed to add an element of mystery to player evaluations.

• Each player has hidden values that affect how easy or difficult they are to scout.
• This hidden variance keeps things intriguing, especially for younger players.
• You can trust whatthe yourgeneral information a scout tells you, but only time will reveal if they were precisely right.

Accuracy of Scouting

• As players gain experience and get older, scouts become more accurate in evaluating their current abilities.
• A scout is more likely to accurately assess a 30-year-old player who has played for five seasons compared to a 17-year-old prospect.

Player Ratings and Potential

• A player's potential ratings are their expected abilities at the time of the draft, and these ratings do not change over time.
• The ratings you see for a player are the same as what everyone else sees; scouting does not alter this.

Scouting Options in Leagues

• Individual leagues have the option to enable or disable the scouting system based on their preferences.

• Leagues with scouting turned offOFF will always see nearly perfect ratings for players throughout their careers.
• Leagues with scouting turned onON will not have precise information on player ratings. Instead, they will see "scouted" ratings, as described earlier.
• Note: Changing a league's scouting setting is not intended to be done frequently. If you wish to make a change, you can submit a request on the Community Requests forum.

Choosing the Scouting Setting

• Leagues that want a realistic system with imperfect information, allowing for hidden gems and draft disappointments, should choose Scouting ON.
• Alternatively, leagues can select a precision level of 5 or 10 for ratings display, providing estimated ratings instead of exact numbers.
• Leagues that prefer to have complete ratings information for players throughout their careers should choose Scouting OFF."OFF.

What is scouting?

Baseball teams hire scouts to visit high schools, colleges, and other professional teams to review players and try to assess their skills and potential. There are young players who scouts think will be superstars, that never reached that potential; and players who scouts think are going to be just OK, who turn out to be far better.

The mystery around this is the basis of the scouting system in BaseHit.

How does scouting work?

Each player has hidden values that influence how easy or hard they are to "scout". This hidden variance creates a bit of mystery, especially for younger players

As players get older, and get more experience, scouts get more accurate in judging a player's current ratings. So a scout is more likely to misscout a 17-year old than he is looking at a 30-year old who has played for five seasons.

A player's potential ratings are their draft-time expectations, and do not change over time. The ratings you see for a player are the same everyone else sees; scouting doesn't change this.

League options for scouting

Individual leagues can choose to have the scouting system on or off. Leagues with scouting off will always see nearly-perfect players' ratings throughout their careers.

Leagues with scouting on will not have exact information on the ratings of players, but will instead see "scouted" ratings, as previously described.

Note - A league's scouting setting is not intended to be changed over and over - to make a change, submit a request on the Commmunity Requests forum to make this change.

Which to choose?

Leagues that like a realistic system of imperfect information, with diamonds-in-the-rough and draft busts should choose Scouting ON. Alternatively, leagues can choose a precision of 5 or 10 for ratings display, to give estimated ratings instead of exact numbers.

Leagues that prefer full ratings information throughout a players' career should choose Scouting OFF.