How do you improve and evaluate player talent in the US?
Don't think that we were doing too much wrong with the new ideas. We initially brought on 6 potential SF's and inside guards in scouting, but with the growth this season in talent amongst 18 and 19 year olds that was no longer necessary.
I'm actually not sure there really is a way to increase scouting and talent improvement too much more than we have currently without more involvement from managers. Having 2-3 more scouts would allow for draft classes to be split up amongst more people and allow for more detailed and hand crafted conversations to those players. Having more responses from the users with those players would also help.
The biggest obstacle we have right now as a scouting group is how to convince someone who isn't going to train their player that they need to sell and use the proceeds to buy someone else. Lots of people this off-season in every nation are selling off the guys that are HoF and MVP and SS for between 300k and 3m depending on their starting TSP and potential. If that player is never listed and sits on the bench all of his first season, cut those values from 300k-3M to 100k-750k. And then down to 25k-250k the following year. I don't want to upset owners who might otherwise train, but if you know that you have a good player and know that he's not going to be a part of your plans, you should definitely cash in and use that funding to aid your current plans. Bench scrubs seem to be going for between 1k and 50k for the low end, 200-400k for the playoff rentals that are over 34.