So this guy was green in SPD when he signed, he's gone up 8 points since, but has already turned black. I thought the "green" potential meant 28+ My question is, if he's already black at +8, there is not way he gets to 28 points gained right? Anyone have any experience with this? Did I just get unlucky here?

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=5085&pid=3499338

He'll get to 28. You were unlucky, in that he was the low end of green. At black, they can still get 20-21.

Posted by rlharri on 11/18/2016 5:49:00 PM (view original):
So this guy was green in SPD when he signed, he's gone up 8 points since, but has already turned black. I thought the "green" potential meant 28+ My question is, if he's already black at +8, there is not way he gets to 28 points gained right? Anyone have any experience with this? Did I just get unlucky here?

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=5085&pid=3499338

Green = 28 or more
Blue = 21 to 27
Black = 7 to 20
Orange = 3 to 6
Red = 0 to 2

The ratings you see on most pages are truncated as whole integers (i.e. if your player is sitting at 97.01, you will see 97 in red where as previously he might of been at 97.00 and still could have 3 points thus it was orange). When players are generated they also are generated as a whole integer (i.e. All non-transfer recruits are generated X.00000) but after that they increase/decrease based on practice minutes/play time as a decimal (including in-between seasons).

However, player improvement # are rounded (i.e. he started the season at 97.01 and has increased to 97.6 now, thus a 0.59 improvement which is rounded up to 1 (this is why some people see instances where on the Season Change screen it says +1 even though the actual rating hasn't moved at all).