If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between experience and judgment when it comes to scouting in FIFA 15, check out my guide guide below. I’ve also made a video guide on YouTube, which you can see embedded above.
Though some of this info is available in part 1 of the FIFA 15 scouting guide, I thought I’d post this information in a separate article because understanding how it works is key to finding good scouts and therefore good players in FIFA 15.
Key points:
- A scout’s judgment rating refers to whether he’ll find the top rated youth players
- A scout’s experience determines whether he’ll find the player type you’re looking for
- If you’re not bothered about finding a certain player type, experience doesn’t matter
Judgment relates to the quality of players your scout will find. A scout with a five star judgment rating will usually find better players than a scout with one star judgement. That doesn’t mean one star rated scouts can’t find good players, but it’s much less likely.
To see exactly how likely it is that your scout will find the best players, check out the table below. The ‘stars’ column refers to how many stars your scout has for judgment. The next four columns show the chances that that scout has of finding players of different qualities, ranging from bronze to platinum. What exactly the game means by bronze or platinum players is not clear, but the latter will be the absolute top drawer. If you know exactly how the game defines each of these categories, make sure to comment below.
| Stars | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75% | 17% | 5% | 3% |
| 2 | 67% | 22% | 7% | 4% |
| 3 | 50% | 36% | 9% | 5% |
| 4 | 30% | 52% | 11% | 7% |
| 5 | 20% | 53% | 17% | 10% |
So as you can see, scouts with one star judgment can still find platinum players, but the vast majority of the players they bring back will be ‘bronze’, i.e. the lowest rung. If you want a better chance of finding the best youth players, it’s worth shelling out on a scout with a higher judgment rating.
As for a scout’s experience, this determines how likely the scout is to find the type of player you’re looking for. A scout with a five star experience rating is much more likely to find the type of players you want (e.g. ‘attacker’, ‘physically strong’, etc) than a lower rated scout.
However, if you just tell him to find players of any type then his experience rating is completely irrelevant – he’s not looking for specific player types, so it doesn’t matter how good his experience is. So if you’re not bothered about player types and you see a scout with five stars in judgment but only three stars in experience, it may be a good idea to hire him instead of a full double-five star scout and save yourself some money.