Pillar — The Scout Archive
What we believed about a player, the week we believed it.
Scouting is a series of revisions. The first-round talent who slid to the third. The late-round flier the room argued for at length. The combine number nobody could reconcile with the tape. Real scouting departments keep that record. The game gives you a single rolling snapshot and overwrites it on the next export.
What gets snapshotted
Every Companion App export contains a scouting payload: draft projection, combine and pro day measurables, attribute ratings, traits, the poor-to-elite physical grade, and the scouting note text. We capture all of it as an immutable row, keyed by prospect and export timestamp. Twelve months later, when the player has been drafted, traded twice, and broken out in his second year, the entire trajectory of his pre-draft scouting record is still queryable, week by week.
- Expected draft position (round and overall, with mock-rank delta)
- Combine: 40, vertical, broad, 3-cone, shuttle, bench reps
- Pro day deltas, if recorded
- The 40+ Madden attributes (Speed, Acceleration, Awareness, etc.)
- Traits: clutch, fumble-resistance, route-running tiers
- Physical grade — poor, below-average, average, above-average, elite
- Scout note text, verbatim
- The week of the season the snapshot was taken
The prospect timeline
We render the archive as a horizontal timeline on each prospect's page. Every export is a tick. Every revision — a draft projection moving from late-second to mid-first, a 40 time dropping from 4.62 to 4.49, an awareness rating climbing from 58 to 71 over an offseason — is visible at a glance. Scrub the timeline and the scout note text updates in place. What we believed, when we believed it, why we changed our mind.
Why the snapshot matters
Most franchise tools treat scouting as a feed. Hashmark treats it as a ledger. The difference is the difference between a stock ticker and a 10-K filing. You can replay the entire pre-draft evaluation of a player who is now in year seven of his career and quote yourself — or be quoted by the recap engine. The Athletic doesn't just tell you a player busted; it tells you which scouts had him highest and what they said. Hashmark gives a franchise that capacity for the first time.
What this enables
- Bust analysis: which round, which scout, which week the consensus formed
- Steal analysis: who saw it first, what the note said
- Combine vs. tape: which measurables actually predicted Madden-rating ascent
- Department report cards: how each scout's board correlated with career value
- Recap context: the narrative engine quotes the original scouting note in retrospectives