retired_elisa123

If I take my team on a tour outside of my scouting area, which is pretty anywhere but Scotland, and find a good player on a team I play. Can I go ahead an sign him even though my scout nevr saw him? Is this in the LLM values?

retired_refit

*Sticking my neck out*

I literally have no idea (you'll have to wait for the LLaMa's to come back online), although this is something that i've always done.

My "take" on this is, as long as the player in question isnt out of your reach as a club, and you are prepared to take the risk and sign a player based on what is effectively your own scouting, then it sounds realistic to me.

At least, there is more than one occasion of this happening in real life.

Again though, I have no idea if the LLaMa's will see it this way. Its quite possible that i'm about to get my ass handed to me

retired_mrsjb

Self-scouting such as this is generally OK, but one game might be a little sketchy - usually such cases are players you've opposed multiple times.

I'd invoke the Jiminy Cricket clause here, I think.

retired_crazybonejr

My guess he's not old enough to recall Jiminy Cricket's line, at least the one that pertains to LLM.

I like being wrong about people in here, but it's rare.

retired_lauriekeith

You haven't had the best time of it lately, have you?

arman920

I don't do it myself but I think the jaffas golden rule applies here, if you have to ask your probably coming from the wrong direction.

Of course I could be completely wrong, it may not be the jaffas golden rule

KingsbayYHPE

Julian's on the button. In a real life situation would you sign a player who you've only seen once?

Some managers might, but how many haddocks would they sign?

If a guy played well against me, well enough to think "Hmmm, should I have another look at him", that's exactly what I'd do...send old Dyb, Dyb, Dyb out to watch him.

retired_lohse55

I would say that, as you can't scout him, it would still be okay if you don't look at his stats and based on what you saw of him on the field. I believe looking at his match stats (passes, passes succesful, etc) would still be legitimate though.

Of course, this is something you really should make out for yourself

retired_pmetzger1

Another one to add to my list for:

"Reasons why preseason is best sorted out by the assman"

He's never yet booked us a tour somewhere that we can't scout...

retired_mrsjb

Nor has my AssMan. He's not a big traveller though as he's never booked us a tour of any sort