Green, Red and Black Colors Topic

muskies85
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Hey guys I should probably know this but can someone tell me exactly what these colors mean on the player profile pages. When they are red does that mean to put 0 minutes on that skill and when green put as many  as possible on that skill. When black that would mean they still have average potential right? Thanks in advance for anyone who wants to explain this to me!
12/1/2011 4:12 PM
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Red means he's got around 0-6 points of improvement left. Green means 21+. I don't see black as a color, all the average is white on my screen. How you allocate your practice minutes is personal preference.

12/1/2011 4:18 PM
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I would not put zero minutes into the red categories unless it's a case where the guy's starting rating is already low (like a PG with a rebound rating of 1). Red categories are not maxed out until you receive the note from your assistant coach saying so. The red merely indicates it a low-growth area (<5-6 points growth remaining). Think of it as the same as a "low potential" message on the Player Thoughts e-mail. 

At least that's my understanding of how to interpret the change. 
12/1/2011 5:05 PM
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Be warned- 0 in a red category can on occasion result in a loss of the attribute's points
12/1/2011 5:08 PM
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What does blue represent?

www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx

12/1/2011 7:19 PM (edited)
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Blue is the new Green and Orange is the new Red
12/1/2011 7:21 PM
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I like the new changes with the colors but it would be nice if they also added a color to differentiate low potential vs a player who is completely maxed out so you could put 0 minutes in the category.
12/1/2011 8:10 PM
gvsujulius
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It would be nice if they put a legend on the player profile page, all these color changes are hard to keep track of!
12/1/2011 8:19 PM
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Posted by skinzfan36 on 12/1/2011 7:21:00 PM (view original):
Blue is the new Green and Orange is the new Red
The orange still looks red to me. Anyone else notice this?
12/1/2011 10:27 PM
rednu
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Posted by car_crazy_v2 on 12/1/2011 10:27:00 PM (view original):
Posted by skinzfan36 on 12/1/2011 7:21:00 PM (view original):
Blue is the new Green and Orange is the new Red
The orange still looks red to me. Anyone else notice this?
Yeah, but as my wife would say, I'm blind anyhow, so it may well be orange. 

I am noticing though that I'm getting an awful lot of error messages when I go to open up player cards now that the blue and orange have replaced red and green. 
12/1/2011 11:34 PM
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Posted by rednation58 on 12/1/2011 8:10:00 PM (view original):
I like the new changes with the colors but it would be nice if they also added a color to differentiate low potential vs a player who is completely maxed out so you could put 0 minutes in the category.
I am pretty sure that "maxed out" is a forum fact that does not really exist ... at least as far as not going down is concerned.

I have never ever noticed a difference.
12/2/2011 2:32 AM
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Posted by hughesjr on 12/2/2011 2:32:00 AM (view original):
Posted by rednation58 on 12/1/2011 8:10:00 PM (view original):
I like the new changes with the colors but it would be nice if they also added a color to differentiate low potential vs a player who is completely maxed out so you could put 0 minutes in the category.
I am pretty sure that "maxed out" is a forum fact that does not really exist ... at least as far as not going down is concerned.

I have never ever noticed a difference.
Not sure what you mean by you've never noticed a difference. Maxxed out does exist, or why do we get emails from the assistant (and I know that another point of growth is theoretically possible even after getting the asst coach email). Basically the way I understand it is that movement (both up and down) slows at the ends of the bell curve of potential. When you get the maxxed message you can go to 0 and most of the time the rating will not drop. Occasionally you may see a 1 pt drop over time. Folks can choose to do the same thing and maximize their use of practice minutes or they can leave some minutes in as insurance and not. I hope most other people choose not.
12/2/2011 5:27 AM
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Maxed out exists, yes.  You stop going up.  However, that does not prevent you from going down if you put in zero minutes.  I am pretty sure they did not add anything in that says, once you get to here, 0 minutes is OK.  That part is the "forum fact" ... much like Averaging your defenders for the Zone ... that i do not believe is true.
12/2/2011 10:03 AM
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Posted by hughesjr on 12/2/2011 10:03:00 AM (view original):
Maxed out exists, yes.  You stop going up.  However, that does not prevent you from going down if you put in zero minutes.  I am pretty sure they did not add anything in that says, once you get to here, 0 minutes is OK.  That part is the "forum fact" ... much like Averaging your defenders for the Zone ... that i do not believe is true.
cool. Maybe we should play since I know my guys will progress faster than yours!
12/2/2011 10:19 AM
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Depends on what you mean by "0 minutes is ok."  The rate of decline in a maxed-out category with 0 practice minutes is certainly not 0, but it is very, very close to 0.  You can easily have a guy come in as a freshman with a maxed out category, leave it on 0 practice minutes his entire career, and never see a drop.  Maybe small offseason gains are countering the small in-season losses.  Who knows?  What I do know is that you can definitely leave maxed-out practice areas at 0 and only very occasionally see any decline at all (to the point that it registers as the loss of a rating point).
12/2/2011 10:33 AM
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