Boss won't track player movement

Questions & Answers
1

I’m making a game where the boss is supposed to come in at one point. Everything works fine save for the player tracking. I added a public Transform field to the boss’ movement script and am trying to get the players transform by linking it in Unity, however when I put it in the Update function it returns the initial transform of my player no matter where I move him.
Here is the code:

public Transform player;  
public float fireRate, speed;  

Rigidbody2D rb;  

void Update ()  
{  
    float dy = transform.position.y - player.transform.position.y;  
    Debug.Log(transform.position.y + ", " + player.position.y);  
    if (dy > 0) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(0f, speed); }  
    else if (dy < 0) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(0f, -speed); }  
}

And a screenshot of the editor view:

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In the first and second one you can see that the Debug.Log() output is showing the same second number (the players position on the y axis) even though he is in different places, while the first number (the cow’s position on the y axis) has changed.
Is there any way I can continuously track the players transform?

2

I linked the prefab in the editor when I should have linked the object in the scene. Doing this fixed the problem.

3

I wonder if the apps that track your cell phone work the same way? I read the full article on this, but the insides are interesting…