A general forum fact was that average was 7-19 points of improvement and high was 20+.  Today, I found out otherwise.  Here is a message from CS I got today:

I believe you are mistaken in the max average improvement - it's 21 points.

The potential ranges are defined as:
- Low = less than 7 points
- Average = 7 to 21 points
- High = 21+ points


Just thought everyone should know.  

i think most of us published 6-19 or 7-19 for a long time. but this was corrected to:
low, 0-6   (less than 7)
medium, 7-20  (7 and up, less than 21)
high, 21+

which is basically what CS said, but for some reason they have no overlap between low/avg, and they do on avg/high. i think that is just a simple mistake, and the exact ranges is what i posted there.

I think you're really saying the same thing.  I'm guessing 7 even and 21 even both qualify as average, but even if your potential is 21 points the odds are overwhelmingly against you ever showing 21 points of improvement, you'll probably just get to 20.9 or 20.99 and it'll still look like 20.  I'm fairly sure that ratings are truncated rather than rounded, so to see the full 21 of improvement you would need to totally and absolutely max out the category.  Given what we know about how slowly things improve as you approach the max value, that seems like it would be very difficult indeed.

I had always heard average was up to 21, how long ago was it 19?

Posted by dahsdebater on 9/20/2012 9:59:00 PM (view original):
I think you're really saying the same thing.  I'm guessing 7 even and 21 even both qualify as average, but even if your potential is 21 points the odds are overwhelmingly against you ever showing 21 points of improvement, you'll probably just get to 20.9 or 20.99 and it'll still look like 20.  I'm fairly sure that ratings are truncated rather than rounded, so to see the full 21 of improvement you would need to totally and absolutely max out the category.  Given what we know about how slowly things improve as you approach the max value, that seems like it would be very difficult indeed.

ratings are truncated, at least, im damn near positive. i am not saying the same thing though. low i think goes up to 6.99 points, 7 flat is medium. medium i think goes up to 20.99 points, 21 flat is high. not that the difference really matters but think about this. you can see 93 mediums in this game, right? but can you see 94 mediums? no. anything 94 and up is always low, because 94 + 7 would be 101.

you can see 79 highs in this game too, which would give you 79 + 21 = 100. 80 is where you never see highs, because 80 + 21 is 101. so its got to be (in the recruiting search part of the world), 0-6.99 is low, 7-20.99 is medium, 21+ is high, at least it seems that way to me.

also, its worth noting, in the assistant coach emails part of the world, you CAN get a high on 80 points (in player thoughts message)i. i think the same is true for low/medium at 6 points. so i think in assistant emails, 0-5.99 is low, 6-19.99 is medium, and 20+ is high. same thing might apply to low/medium, but im not sure, never really paid attention.

ive also had categories that were high in recruiting go up 20 exactly, before getting the capped message. and ive had the same with 6 mediums. so from a capped message standpoint, 0-5 = low, 6-19 = medium, 20+ = high. but then there is usually 1 point of improvement that can still be gotten, albeit very very slowly.

so im thinking that is basically the whole story, and effectively why saying low = 0-5 or 0-6, and medium = 6-19 or 7-20, and high = 20+ or 21+, are all basically accurate.