The new and improved app The Show Scout
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Spent a lot of time this weekend completely redoing my app. I removed the AI Generative prompt for reports because it was flakey and could have ended up costing me money. But I added 33 pre-built reports to go with the searching and filtering
This was created on a PC in a PC browser so I am not sure how it will fare on mobile or other screens. Here is a list of pre-built reports. I am always open to suggestion for more if they are useful or fun and can be implemented with the data that the program pulls
I will say there is not enough data to track collections or programs and any inventory management
Pre-built Reports
This feature provides one-click access to a wide range of automatically generated reports and analysis, organized by category.
Squad Building
- Best Overall Squad: Builds the best possible squad using the highest "Meta Score" at each position.
- Best Divisional Squad: Finds the best player at each position from a chosen division, ranked by "Meta Score".
- Best Team Squad: Builds the best possible meta squad for a chosen MLB team, using cards from any series.
- Best Switch-Hitting Squad: Builds the best possible squad using only switch-hitters, ranked by "Meta Score".
- All-Defense Squad: Assembles a lineup that prioritizes defensive attributes above all else to create a lockdown fielding unit.
- All-Speed Squad: Creates the fastest possible lineup by prioritizing speed and stealing attributes.
- Best "Contact & Speed" Squad: Builds the best possible lineup using only players with elite contact (100+) and speed (90+).
- The "Bullpen from Hell": Finds the top 8 relief pitchers ranked by their combined H/9 and K/9 attributes.
Player Analysis & Rankings
- Top 5 Players by Position: Lists the top 5 players for each primary position, ranked by a weighted "Meta Score".
- The "Five-Tool Player" Report: Ranks the most well-rounded players based on a combined score for contact, power, speed, fielding, and arm strength.
- The "Complete Ace" Report: Ranks the most well-rounded pitchers based on a combined score for H/9, K/9, Velocity, Control, and Movement.
- Attribute Outliers: Finds players who are statistical anomalies, like the fastest Catcher or a pitcher with immense power.
- Advanced Pitching Analysis: Breakdown of 95+ OVR pitchers with elite arsenals (Speed Diffs, Control).
- Quirk Kings: Counts active quirks across all 95+ OVR players. Click a quirk to see who has it.
Market & Collections
- Best Value Players: Finds effective players under 100,000 stubs, sorted by stubs per meta point.
- Budget Beasts: Finds 95+ OVR non-Live Series cards available on the market for 20,000 stubs or less.
- Flipping Helper: Scans the market for cards with the largest potential profit margin for flipping.
- Most Expensive by Position: Lists the top 5 most expensive players to "Buy Now" for each position.
- Team Collection Cost Estimator: Calculates the estimated cost to complete the Live Series collection for a chosen team.
- Live Series Collection Roadblocks: Identifies the 5 most expensive "gatekeeper" cards for a chosen team's Live Series collection.
Live Series Updates
- Biggest Movers of the Week: Shows the players with the biggest OVR changes from the most recent major roster update.
- "On the Rise" / "Falling Stars": Identifies players on a consistent upward or downward trend over multiple roster updates.
- Most Volatile Players: Ranks players by their total OVR fluctuation (ups and downs) throughout the season.
Data Breakdowns
- Legends & Flashbacks by Team: Counts all non-Live Series cards for each of the 30 MLB teams.
- Unique Legends & Flashbacks by Team: Counts unique players (using their best card) on each team, excluding Live Series.
- Series Breakdown (Global): Provides a count of how many cards belong to each non-Live series.
- Series Breakdown by Team: Provides a count of non-Live series cards for a chosen team.
- Positional Depth Chart: Lists the top 3 players by OVR for each position on a chosen team.
- Team Handedness Profile: Shows a breakdown of L/R/S hitters and L/R pitchers for a chosen team.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Tallest & Shortest Players: Finds the tallest and shortest players in the game.
- Heaviest & Lightest Players: Ranks players by their listed weight.
- Oldest & Youngest Players: Discovers the elder statesmen and the rising stars by age.
- Player Birthplace Breakdown: Shows player counts by US State and Country. Click a location to see the players.
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Hey mlb the show, hire this man .
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@Dolenz_PSN this is really cool, man!
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@SDS_JoeK_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
@Dolenz_PSN this is really cool, man!
Thanks!
It literally started as an experiment to see if I could get it to automatically make the charts I post with the Legend and Flashback counts per team and grew from that simple idea.
It's kind of disturbing how much time was spent on it. But I was kind of curious about what was possible and then just kept iterating on it over and over.
In case you did not see it. Every name on every report is clickable to call up the Details Screen. The Exceptions is the Update reports which link to the Updates screen.
Several of the reports let you drill down for a deeper look. Every report can be copied to the clipboard. Every chart should be able to be downloaded as a graphic file.
There are a lot of small touches built in.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Spent a lot of time this weekend completely redoing my app. I removed the AI Generative prompt for reports because it was flakey and could have ended up costing me money. But I added 33 pre-built reports to go with the searching and filtering
This was created on a PC in a PC browser so I am not sure how it will fare on mobile or other screens. Here is a list of pre-built reports. I am always open to suggestion for more if they are useful or fun and can be implemented with the data that the program pulls
I will say there is not enough data to track collections or programs and any inventory management
Pre-built Reports
This feature provides one-click access to a wide range of automatically generated reports and analysis, organized by category.
Squad Building
- Best Overall Squad: Builds the best possible squad using the highest "Meta Score" at each position.
- Best Divisional Squad: Finds the best player at each position from a chosen division, ranked by "Meta Score".
- Best Team Squad: Builds the best possible meta squad for a chosen MLB team, using cards from any series.
- Best Switch-Hitting Squad: Builds the best possible squad using only switch-hitters, ranked by "Meta Score".
- All-Defense Squad: Assembles a lineup that prioritizes defensive attributes above all else to create a lockdown fielding unit.
- All-Speed Squad: Creates the fastest possible lineup by prioritizing speed and stealing attributes.
- Best "Contact & Speed" Squad: Builds the best possible lineup using only players with elite contact (100+) and speed (90+).
- The "Bullpen from Hell": Finds the top 8 relief pitchers ranked by their combined H/9 and K/9 attributes.
Player Analysis & Rankings
- Top 5 Players by Position: Lists the top 5 players for each primary position, ranked by a weighted "Meta Score".
- The "Five-Tool Player" Report: Ranks the most well-rounded players based on a combined score for contact, power, speed, fielding, and arm strength.
- The "Complete Ace" Report: Ranks the most well-rounded pitchers based on a combined score for H/9, K/9, Velocity, Control, and Movement.
- Attribute Outliers: Finds players who are statistical anomalies, like the fastest Catcher or a pitcher with immense power.
- Advanced Pitching Analysis: Breakdown of 95+ OVR pitchers with elite arsenals (Speed Diffs, Control).
- Quirk Kings: Counts active quirks across all 95+ OVR players. Click a quirk to see who has it.
Market & Collections
- Best Value Players: Finds effective players under 100,000 stubs, sorted by stubs per meta point.
- Budget Beasts: Finds 95+ OVR non-Live Series cards available on the market for 20,000 stubs or less.
- Flipping Helper: Scans the market for cards with the largest potential profit margin for flipping.
- Most Expensive by Position: Lists the top 5 most expensive players to "Buy Now" for each position.
- Team Collection Cost Estimator: Calculates the estimated cost to complete the Live Series collection for a chosen team.
- Live Series Collection Roadblocks: Identifies the 5 most expensive "gatekeeper" cards for a chosen team's Live Series collection.
Live Series Updates
- Biggest Movers of the Week: Shows the players with the biggest OVR changes from the most recent major roster update.
- "On the Rise" / "Falling Stars": Identifies players on a consistent upward or downward trend over multiple roster updates.
- Most Volatile Players: Ranks players by their total OVR fluctuation (ups and downs) throughout the season.
Data Breakdowns
- Legends & Flashbacks by Team: Counts all non-Live Series cards for each of the 30 MLB teams.
- Unique Legends & Flashbacks by Team: Counts unique players (using their best card) on each team, excluding Live Series.
- Series Breakdown (Global): Provides a count of how many cards belong to each non-Live series.
- Series Breakdown by Team: Provides a count of non-Live series cards for a chosen team.
- Positional Depth Chart: Lists the top 3 players by OVR for each position on a chosen team.
- Team Handedness Profile: Shows a breakdown of L/R/S hitters and L/R pitchers for a chosen team.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Tallest & Shortest Players: Finds the tallest and shortest players in the game.
- Heaviest & Lightest Players: Ranks players by their listed weight.
- Oldest & Youngest Players: Discovers the elder statesmen and the rising stars by age.
- Player Birthplace Breakdown: Shows player counts by US State and Country. Click a location to see the players.
I love this, very well done
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I just can't stop updating it even though I am not sure how many are using it. I actually update it more than I use it myself. Things I did tonight.
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Standardized the reports more. Adding the Card Series into a lot more reports and trying to standardize the column ordering a little more on similar reports.
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Links Everywhere - Now within every report that has a Team or Series column you can click on the team or Series to list the players that make up that team or series.
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Even More links - The Pitch Types on the player detail screen are now clickable links that will display the top 50 pitchers based on that pitch
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Piggybacking on number 3 - The AI and I (mostly the AI) categorized pitches into 3 types "Hard Stuff", "Breaking Ball" or "Off Speed" so that it did not use the same formula to come up with the top 50 changeup pitchers as it did for top 50 fastball pitchers.
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Added a new Top 50 Pitchers by Pitch Type pre-built report that allows the user to choose the pitch and then the Top 50 pitchers for that pitch are listed. It uses the formulas I mentioned above to rank the pitchers.
Here, for example are your only three Palmball pitchers ranked
(Ranked by a weighted score. Formula for this category (Breaking Ball):
Score = (Break * 55%) + (Control * 35%) + (Speed * 10%))Rank Player Team Series Spd Ctrl Brk Pitch Score 1 Warren Spahn ATL All-Star 76 81 76 78 2 Cool Papa Bell FA The Negro Leagues 85 63 61 64 3 Bullet Rogan FA The Negro Leagues 77 64 59 63If you are using it Check out the new additions.
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If only you guys had as much passion.
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let me guess top 5 players are all Cardinals.....
joking of course, great work Dolenz!
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Hehe, he’d need to put in a search feature for former Cardinal relievers and what team to find them on.
Our theme team bullpen is mighty scarce now.
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@LIONED-33_XBL said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
let me guess top 5 players are all Cardinals.....
joking of course, great work Dolenz!
I can confirm, no Cardinal Specific reports are included
@JenkinMeyer_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Hehe, he’d need to put in a search feature for former Cardinal relievers and what team to find them on.
Our theme team bullpen is mighty scarce now.
As an offline player I just use Lee Smith over and over. When I get him to P5 I may pick up the breakout Helsley
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Man, the moderators of the MLB The Show reddit are just brutal. They just keep deleting my posts where I try and share this completely free app with other players.
It would be nice if they gave a reason for it because from what I could see I am not violating any rules.
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Assumptions, they are most likely assuming you’ll turn it into a subscription app and they don’t want to seem like they’re promoting something they don’t control.
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@SavageSteve74_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Assumptions, they are most likely assuming you’ll turn it into a subscription app and they don’t want to seem like they’re promoting something they don’t control.
That would be my thought too but I tried to make it clear that it is now and will remain free. As a retired guy, getting some extra money would be great, but I am not sure there is enough polish in this app that I would ever even consider it as a possibility.
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I would keep an eye on the usage and if there’s enough people hitting the app, instead of subscription, look at affiliate marketing or ads (within reason, no one wants to have to watch ads every 30 secs). There are tons of companies that will pay you a very small fee just for clicks, it adds up and could be a nice way to add a little $ for fun things.
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Okay, based on some comments in another thread I got busy again
I have added a whole new Category of reports Eras and Immortals with the following reports
Best squad by decade is kind of flakey as many decades represented in the game don't have enough players to fill out squad.
Then every player in the game who is in the Hall Of Fame as a player has a indicator on their details screen beneath their picture. When you mouse over that Hall of fame indicator it pops up the induction information
