@Sapphy69 In that case I am not 'quite' sure what you mean. Did you mean to say that you got unscouted or did you perhaps not know about the scouting system to begin with?
Either way, these might be useful to you:
Ornery's Handy Dandy Scouting Guide
https://ornery.newgrounds.com/news/post/388624
Luwano's Scouting Guide
https://art101.newgrounds.com/news/post/978058
Yatsufusa
We don't have "an algorithm". We only have a community and that's it.
Sapphy69
There is actually an algorithm to search, but you're not wrong either, it's an algorithm that works with the community