The draft advice and scouting investment is also dated. Since the time that was written, more options have been added to be able to determine current player skills, so having more skill points is helpful - and more importantly, unusued skill points now carry over from season to season, so there's a strong case to invest 10k every week as long as it's affordable, even if you don't need them this season.
I think that should read "unused scouting points."
Although, let's think about unused skill points ...