One of my players, James Steadman, is a 50 ATH and was black (average potential) in ATH  when I recruited him and has now turned red in ATH without improving a single point.

I know he was black because I remember specifically the only area he was red in was his 1 in LP. That's a ridiculously low amount of increase to go from "average" potential to "low" potential.

It's a hard line.  You must have recruited him with 7 points of potential.  Now he's grown a fraction of a point and he's got 6.x points left, which is low potential.  You just got the unlucky end of average.  I always assume 7-10 points of growth for average, anything more is just gravy.

whats weird is players will drop after a couple practices, and then go up a point after a couple. i wonder if the line is really 6.5, and you have to gain half that point. otherwise, all players who will drop without seeing a point gain should all do it in the first cycle.

Posted by gillispie1 on 12/12/2012 7:01:00 PM (view original):
whats weird is players will drop after a couple practices, and then go up a point after a couple. i wonder if the line is really 6.5, and you have to gain half that point. otherwise, all players who will drop without seeing a point gain should all do it in the first cycle.

Are you assuming new recruits always have integer values for potential/room left to grow?