What is the best way to determine the potential in an international?  Are internationals on the old system of growth (the system before potential where WE was the major indicator and they grew basically in the areas where they practiced.)?  Once you sign an international are they included in the assistant coaches evaluation email that says where the areas of best growth are?  Thanks for the info.  

The ONLY way to determine the potential of an international before signing him is to use scouting trips.  Internationals are not on the old system of growth, or you'd hear tons and tons of gripes and complaints.  And yeah, they will be included in your AC's evaluation email. 

Thanks sol_phenom3.  In other words it is a crap shoot to say the least.  You need to either spend a bunch on scouting trips to determine the growth potential or be content with the current numbers.

Posted by jjwarden on 5/7/2011 2:41:00 PM (view original):
Thanks sol_phenom3.  In other words it is a crap shoot to say the least.  You need to either spend a bunch on scouting trips to determine the growth potential or be content with the current numbers.

Bingo

The potentials of internationals generally seem better than their North American counterparts from what I've noticed. I think I've recruited one bad international where I wanted to cut the guy. 

Depends.  I signed a guy with okay cores (well, very nice REB) who had 96 WE from Russia without scouting him much, and in the end he was high in REB/DEF and basically low everywhere else.  I also scouted a guard from Italy whom I was very interested in landing, but after just two scouting trips I learned that he was low in BH/PASS and only average in SPD (and his SPD was pretty poor for a DI guard).  I have seen plenty of internationals on other teams develop into superstars though.