Has anyone had experience going triple-20 for HS, coll, Int scouting? 

My hope is that there is some kind of amazing player who nobody can see but me ... I also think it would be worthwhile if for the draft, the signability statuses vary based on your scouting budget.  IOW, if 10 players see a stud guy, everyone with 19 and below sees him as "Definitely won't sign" or "Probably won't sign" or whatever and I see him as "undecided" or "will sign for the right price".

I had 20/20 and the 2nd and 3rd pick in a draft once. Boy was I disappointed to see that draft class.

Does anyone know how many teams, on average, see a given IFA? I always wonder how many teams I'm bidding against.

I wouldn't hold my breath(note the date):

7/25/2007 4:19 PM	MikeT23
This is just a "wish" item. I stumbled upon the idea in a thread griping about coach hiring when someone sarcastically mentioned "scout hiring". Anyway, I'm not sure if it's practical to program but I think it would be pretty nice and add a handful of options/strategy to scouting(which is pretty much hands off except for budgeting). Thanks in advance for taking the time to read the following. The concept: Each 1m you allot "buys" you one scout. This applies to Int'l, HS and college. Scouts are of equal ability(for the most part). Each country will be a seperate entity for international scouts. The US will be split up into regions(15 is what I'm thinking. Probably by state). The regions will not be equal nor will they produce the same quality/quantity of players. The same applies to countries. The owner assigns a scout to a region(for HS or college) or a country(for internationals). Domestically, a scout in a region will find the top 5 players and 25(or whatever) other players of varying ability. If two scouts are placed in the same region, the numbers will double. Obviously college scouts will only report on college players. Internationally, each scout will find up to 8 players(or whatever # is chosen). These will be random and there will be no guarantee that you see the best 8. You will simply see the first 8 he finds. Doubling up scouting will double the number of prospect found. Regions/Countries: At the beginning of the season, before scouts are assigned, the owners will be sent a report giving the number of colleges in each region, the number of high school seniors playing ball in each region and the number of international prospects in each country. Again, the only constant from season to season would be the number of colleges playing baseball from each region. I'd recommend varying the number of colleges per region during set-up as opposed to making each region the same "size" to add to strategy. During the arbitration process, the owner will assign scouts based upon these reports/personal strategy. If an owner fails to assign scouts, they will default to previous season settings and/or one scout to the most populated region on down until scouting budget runs out. Overall scouting For each 2m spent domestically, the owner will see the top overall player regardless of region. This will not "add" a player to scouted regions but simply ensures he sees the top player(s).
7/25/2007 4:58 PM	Customer Support
Mike, We have some ideas and we are currently discussing how to expand the role of Scouts in HBD. We will take these thoughts into consideration when we cross that bridge. Thanks!.

That was a solid idea Mike.  They already have the frame work in HD FSS...

Sometimes you just  get lucky.  I got this gut with $14m scouting for $8.6mm towards the end of the season. 

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And I got this gut with $9mm scouting at the start of the season.

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As a follow-up to this, we're about 50 games in and the draft is in a few more days. HS >>> College imo, I tend to do better with the hs guys in my player pool. I also think it makes a difference that the league average for coll is 10 and the league avg is only 8 for hs. As for IFA, I have seen virtually every single player so far, with one or two exceptions. There have been 10 bidding wars so far and I've been able to participate in all 10. So next season I'll probably go with 16-20-20, and i'll probably settle in at 12-14 for college long-term

I also meant to say that the main reason i did it was not because of my first pick ( i pick 9th) but to enhance the value of my sandwich picks, of which i expected to have four of, but only ended up getting two of. a guy i thought would be type-a was only type-B, and one of the b's never got signed