{"id":3384,"date":"2016-10-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:54:40","slug":"taste-the-feeling-episode-3-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2016\/10\/taste-the-feeling-episode-3-scouting\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste The Feeling &#8211; Episode 3 &#8211; Scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Scouting + Transfer model<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A large part of our success will be down to the players we\u2019ll be bringing into the clubs, and since one of our goals is to be as profitable as possible we need to get the talent in as young as possible and therefore as cheap as possible &#8211; adopting parts of both the Chelsea and Pozzo model I discussed in Episode 1. This is obviously hard to achieve due to the size of the earth, and the competition from countless other clubs trying to do the same &#8211; so our scouting network needs to be extensive and effective as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we\u2019re starting with Antwerp, it\u2019s probable there\u2019s not a fantastic scouting network already in place so the most likely scenario (as the game isn\u2019t out yet, I can\u2019t check their stats!) will be to sack all the scouts and start building the network from scratch. We\u2019ll start by hiring as many scouts as possible with the best 4 attributes that i\u2019ll be looking for which are &#8211; judging ability (JA), judging potential (JP), adaptability and determination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s likely at the start of the game that the board will limit the scouting range to just Belgium so the scouts will be set to look for domestic Belgian talents until this range can be extended to Europe. It\u2019s when this range gets extended that my planned system will start to show dividends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each scout will have their own country (or countries near the beginning). They will then have separate assignments within that country to try to find the type of players we\u2019re after. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, say we hire a scout called John Smith to be our Spanish scout, his assignments would be set as such:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scout Hot Prospects in Spain (aged 15-21)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scout First Team players in Spain (aged 20-24)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scout the Spanish national youth teams (done by choosing \u201cAdd Condition\u201d then adding nationality Spanish and national team = U21\/U20\/U19)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This should hopefully present us with a huge amount of data on talented Spanish (or wherever) youngsters to look through. We won\u2019t start with scouting Spain though, as the players can often be pricey, same as for the \u201cbigger\u201d leagues, so to start with we\u2019ll adopt the Pozzo method of scouting some of the more undervalued places for talent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So once the scouting range is upgraded (most likely to within Europe) we\u2019ll concentrate on these undervalued countries, that I&#8217;ve identified (via a mix of their European coefficient as well as their FIFA ranking) as: Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland and Austria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cap for scouts (on FM16 anyway!) seemed to be 20, I could never manage to convince the board to allow more. However we have a fantastic advantage in this series that I will be taking full use of. As Antwerp grows, and the scouting network grows (both in range and number of scouts allowed), we\u2019ll be adding another club into the mix. This gives us an opportunity to essentially pool the knowledge between clubs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So as an example, let\u2019s pretend we have 2 clubs &#8211; Antwerp and Watford. We have 1 scout for each team, the Antwerp scout is scouting Germany whilst the Watford scout is in Chile. The Watford scout finds a great talent in Chile, but we know he\u2019ll fail in getting a work permit for Watford. We can then directly buy him as Antwerp &#8211; despite him never even being on Antwerp&#8217;s radar. This will also be a good loophole to the maximum scouts allowed limit, as we\u2019ll effectively have twice (or more as we add more clubs) the number of scouts available to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transfer Model<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The process described above\u00a0should hopefully mean that we\u2019ll have such a huge reach that any talented youngsters, no matter of their location should be found quite quickly and snapped up by one of our clubs. This constant influx of young talent will form the foundation of our empire. When inevitably a first team player is sold, it should hopefully mean (combined with our coaching strategy that will be formed in the next episode) a ready-made replacement is waiting in the wings, forming a conveyor belt type system that you can see below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2874\" src=\"https:\/\/fromthewing.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/development_cycle.jpg\" alt=\"development_cycle\" width=\"1628\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see the cycle, which restarts each season for each player, is quite harsh, but we\u2019re running a business &#8211; sentiment or attachment to players cannot affect our choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This also means that if a club has multiple players in one position for a youth team (using the examples from earlier) &#8211; let\u2019s pretend Watford have 4 strikers in their U21 team. The \u201cworst\u201d striker is also no improvement on any of Antwer&#8217;ps U21 strikers,\u00a0this means it&#8217;s essentially pointless keeping him and he&#8217;ll just end up stagnating behind the rest of the strikers so may as well be released or sold on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This should have a knock-on effect of promoting constant improvement within all the youth teams as either higher quality players enter the system, or the existing players get more game-time &#8211; helping their development and raising the chance that they\u2019ll break into the first team. The players who get sold on will help provide a valuable cash injection into the club (hopefully at a profit), which we can use to spend on more youth prospects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we\u2019ve identified our players transfer model when playing for one of our teams, and how we&#8217;ll be scouting, but how do we decide what players to buy? Is it a hunch? Is it based one or two stats that are higher than the average for their age? Do we just listen to our scouts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find out in Episode 4 (out next Monday) as I delve into the qualities we\u2019re looking for (dubbed talent identification), and how we\u2019ll develop the players via our strict coaching methodology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst you wait, I\u2019d appreciate any feedback or any questions you have about the series (or me!) on my Twitter &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/From_The_Wing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scouting + Transfer model A large part of our success will be down to the players we\u2019ll be bringing into the clubs, and since one of our goals is to be as profitable as possible we need to get the talent in as young as possible and therefore as cheap as possible &#8211; adopting parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,90],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taste The Feeling - Episode 3 - Scouting - The Higher Tempo Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2016\/10\/taste-the-feeling-episode-3-scouting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taste The Feeling - Episode 3 - Scouting - The Higher Tempo Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scouting + Transfer model A large part of our success will be down to the players we\u2019ll be bringing into the clubs, and since one of our goals is to be as profitable as possible we need to get the talent in as young as possible and therefore as cheap as possible &#8211; 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