I've noticed that some of my players that were rated low in a category when I recuited them don't show up as limited in the assistant coach Player Thoughts email at the start of later seasons. I have a player who was low in Stamina potential when I recuited him. His senior year Player Thoughts info did not show him as limited. I've always assumed that if they weren't limited or big in that email, they were average.

Is this the case? Should I now expect a few points improvement on his stamina?

There is some discrepency between what FSS tells you and the asst coach. Customer service and Seble have always parroted the company line that you are affected by the one practice that occurs in between. That is incorrect. This year I have an ineligible who cannot can/lose points and he has different potentials. I have always found  the asst coach emails to be more accurate, but there is a flaw here, despite management's denials.

Did they lose points in the off-season?  I've definitely seen where guys on the border between two categories of potential drop a point or two in the off-season and their potential changes.

cheez.. I had a player who had FSS that said low.. then a few days later when I got the ast coach report he was normal... he was inel. there could be no change.

Posted by cheeznsweet on 2/7/2011 12:09:00 PM (view original):
Did they lose points in the off-season?  I've definitely seen where guys on the border between two categories of potential drop a point or two in the off-season and their potential changes.

As a matter of fact, he did lose points for Stamina in the off season.

Posted by kannc6 on 2/7/2011 12:58:00 PM (view original):
cheez.. I had a player who had FSS that said low.. then a few days later when I got the ast coach report he was normal... he was inel. there could be no change.

FSS uses slightly different ranges for low/med/high potential than the asst coach report does.

If you have a rating with potential of right around either 5 or 20, their FSS and ast coach reports will be different.

For example, FSS says RB is "normal," Ast. coach says RB is "big upside."  
The potential in RB is probably right around 20 points.