Scouts don't tell you how a player in your league is good at what.
Not only that they tell how good each player is, they also point to the exact moves that he good at, and where his weaknesses are.
I like how you skipped the most important part of this quote: "Both in real life and in this game, I know who my opponent's good shooter, legendary passer, atrocious rebounders are".
I meant exactly that: scouts are useless if all you want from them is a classification of the players' skills.
It's just a way to be able to not commit to paying attention to your league, and short-cut it by paying.
It's the other way round: having to choose the line-up ADDS complexity to the game.
Just the same with this "enhanced scouting abilities", the user should decide how much money he will invest in a small partion of information regarding his opponent.
It is exactly like the draft scouters! The user chooses amount of money to invest for getting better information about players he can draft.
No, it just gives you a chance to have someone tell you what you can see with your eyes. It's completely different to the line-up example.
Because in real life teams pay scouts to tell them what draftees are good at and how.
I got it... scouts can tell all about a draftee, but about a player the same information (kind of) they just can tell, beacuse it is just a totaly different thing. [You understand that it sounds a little bit absurd].
Again... they can indeed tell the same information, of course they can. But in the case of draftees is fundamental information, in the case of opponents is just useless!
Seriously, you don't know that Kende Sallai is a very good rebounder? Do you need to pay someone to tell that to you?
And because in BB, instead, there is no other way you can get an insight on draftees (simply because BB-NCAA games or similar stuff don't exist).
There are three levels of scouting. Why after you get the statistics you don't ask to prevent the last level?
The statistics of a game they give is as representive as a whole season. Otherwise, it would just not give anything.
Summarizing;
Like a scout can scout information about draftees, the scouts of the opponent can do the same.
Exactly like a scouter for the draft candidate is being paid for a small bit of information, so can the scouter for the opponent.
This gives the same complexity as scouting for the draft.
Again, again, again: you can't watch games of draftees, whereas you can watch games of opponents. There lies the difference.
There is a point in paying someone to tell what you cannot understand otherwise.
There is not a point in paying someone to tell what you can see on your own (well, there is a point: laziness).
Last edited by Stavrogin at 10/26/2011 7:00:18 PM