Walkons and O/D practice Topic

Fairly inconsequential but has anyone else seen a problem with walkons not practicing the same O/D that the rest of your team does?  I picked up a walkon this season and he came in with F IQ in the M2M I practice as well as an F in the press.  After one practice he is still F in M2M but D- in the press.  I only practice/play M2M.

Anyone else notice something like this? 
12/8/2010 12:31 PM
After reading your post I went and looked at a walkon on my Baylor team and the same thing happened to him. He was F in everything but is now a D- in press despite my team only practicing M2M.
12/8/2010 1:02 PM
Players do learn offenses and defenses besides the ones you run and practice, and there's some speculation as to what causes players to learn certain non-practiced formations better than others. I'd say luck probably plays some role, and that's probably what happened here. If you could assign a numerical value to O/D ratings, let's say an F is anything below 20. Now let's say your walkon started with knowledge of 19 in the press but 15 in M2M. Well maybe his M2M rating is now 18 (and thus still an F) but his Press randomly increased one point to a 20 which is the baseline for a D-.

I'd say wait until you've had 5, 10, 15 practices and see what the results look like. Without any data to back me up I'd still say you'll see that your walkon will be much stronger in M2M than Press.
12/8/2010 1:33 PM
No, it doesn't take 4-5 practices to move off of F IQ, especially if the player has any WE. 
Walkons are supposed to come in with non-F IQs in the offense/defense you run, at least that's how it used to work (?).  (Maybe it assigned them IQ in the team's historical (original) offense/defense).  But he's clearly not practicing my offense either. 

Ticket submitted.

12/8/2010 4:06 PM (edited)
Update: 
According to CS, he has "low potential" in IQ and therefore will improve slowly despite high WE.  Since when do players have a cap on IQ?  I thought IQ improvements were purely a function of practice, SH, and WE?  
12/8/2010 5:00 PM
If there is an IQ potential, that should probably be listed in FSS.
12/8/2010 5:18 PM
there is no iq potential, to my knowledge, nor has there ever been. iq progression is based on primarily GPA, work ethic, practice time, with a bit of playing time thrown in for good measure.
12/8/2010 5:29 PM
CS responded with a correction, there is no potential for IQ, they meant that his ratings had low potential.  But apparently he will improve more slowly than most.  Took 3 practices to move him from F to D- which I've never seen with 70 WE and 23 minutes of practice each.  No real consequence here since he's a walkon. 
12/9/2010 7:37 AM
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