Scouting in FM14 - how is it working?

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philstanbridge
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10 Nov 2013 21:38:44
What's going on here? I'm doing quite well as Charlton in the Premier League - I'm playing in 2022 currently. But the problem I am experiencing is to do with discovering quality youth players. There are very few! Certainly far less than in 13.

I have 18 scouts, some with 20/20, I have 55% worldwide coverage. I am using the largest custom database with 99,000 players possible. So in theory, I have every opportunity to find the best players. I manually check the regen dates for new youth. But the problem is I think, players are just either not appearing in my scouting range, OR there are very few. For example, I am in 6th place in my second season in the PL. I am a good team but not exceptional by any means. There should be a lot of 5 star youth available should there not? What I am seeing, out of 64,000 players when I search unrealistic transfers, is five 5 star players. Just 5! All of these are currently out of my ability to buy. There are lots of 4.5 star mind you. So what's going on here?

I manually trawl through a lot of the regens, and my scouts are assigned via the head scout, so there isn't much more I can do. All I know is that in FM13 I had literally dozens of 5 star players to choose from at this stage. In this release, so far, there are barely a few. There are a lot of 4/4.5 star, but nothing much with world class potential. I have noticed my scouts are finding generally much older players. Again, this is different for me. So I am wondering if it's something I am doing wrong, or something more fundamental? Have SI changed the star rating system at all? 'World Class' players is a new feature now, beforehand it was just Excellent potential.

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