Being able to scout too many players removes some of the ability to find late round gems, as the more players who are scouted, the less RNG is involved. This can either be good or bad, depending on perspective. However there's also the issue of standard leagues with low user participation. If only 5-10 teams are actively using their scouts, practically no players are going to end up scouted at a cap of 2. The system also needs to work in such a way as to prevent hoarding your scouts until right before your draft pick, otherwise you're disincentivized from actually using them until you're on the clock, thus effectively hurting players who draft earlier in the process.
One possible solution would be to allocate one scout to each team on each mid-week spin as soon as the draft class is gen'd, with a pop up notice notifying the user when they have an unused scout. From then on, every two spins each user will "replenish" their scout if it was used. If it hasn't been used, there's no carry-over and you still will only get one scout. Once a set number of players have been scouted (say 96), no more scouts will be replenished. Once Early FA 5 has spun no more scouts can be used.
This will give users out of the playoffs at least one thing to do, will ensure that low activity leagues still scout a solid number of players (if the cap is never reached, each active player would get the opportunity to use up to 7 total scouts), and gives a natural progression of knowledge leading up the draft (creating late risers/fallers).
jdavidbakr wrote:
This isn't a replacement for combine numbers, which I do still want to add.
If we're going with an obfuscated system, I definitely wouldn't want to see combine numbers. That just gives veteran players a major advantage, as we'll quickly figure out how combine numbers correspond to the physical attributes. It's basically like creating a secret code to decipher a player's physical atts in the draft. Once you've learned it, you know, but anyone who's new or doesn't have the time/inclination to figure it out will be left in the dark. Heck, I could probably code a script to just auto-translate combine numbers back into the 0-100 metric, or just a simple excel formula for the CSV files. And if the combine numbers DON'T reflect their actual numbers, then they're pointless fluff.
