No More Preseason Player Improvement Emails? Topic

colonels19
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I didn't get the email in my coach box that says where each guy is at high/low...makes practice planning much simpler...did they get rid of these or what?
12/29/2011 8:59 PM
isack24
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Why do you need it?
12/29/2011 9:08 PM
pepwaves
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I found it helpful sometimes to determine the cap for average potential. When a player had 20 point of improvement left for a category with average potential (according to FSS), the email designated that category as having "big potential." Granted, that was basically a glitch. 


12/29/2011 9:14 PM
colonels19
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Because it tells me what every guys potential is without me having to click on every single individual player to find out...makes practice planning a one stop shop if you will...I would keep that email open side by side with my practice plan and boom...easy as pie
12/29/2011 9:26 PM
isack24
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That's true, but that attribute would still be colored blue, wouldn't it?
12/29/2011 9:27 PM
isack24
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Posted by colonels19 on 12/29/2011 9:26:00 PM (view original):
Because it tells me what every guys potential is without me having to click on every single individual player to find out...makes practice planning a one stop shop if you will...I would keep that email open side by side with my practice plan and boom...easy as pie
Scroll down and use the color-coded attributes.  Even easier.
12/29/2011 9:27 PM
colonels19
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Ahhh, I hadn't noticed that, thank you :)
12/29/2011 9:32 PM
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Or even easier its on the right side of the screen so you dont even have to scroll down
12/29/2011 9:57 PM
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Posted by isack24 on 12/29/2011 9:27:00 PM (view original):
That's true, but that attribute would still be colored blue, wouldn't it?
It'd be colored black in this new system because it's the highest value in the average range (7-20).
12/30/2011 10:58 AM
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Oh, I just assumed that the player thoughts e-mail was how the post-recruiting game viewed potential, which to me meant that it would have just been transferred to over the color-coded ratings. 

12/30/2011 11:03 AM
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Yeah, it was probably supposed to work that way...but there was some kind of disconnect in the way FSS and the player thoughts email interpreted potential. I had a few players who had "average" potential according FSS, but then when I received the player thoughts email, they had "big potential". It actually happened a few times with players listed as having "low" potential according to FSS too. Then the player thoughts email omitted the category...meaning they had "average" potential.

I'm guessing there was just a one point discrepancy between the point range for each system. So not really a big deal, but definitely exciting to discover when your player has 20 points of possible improvement instead of 7. (Bryan Currie was one such player who surprised me).
12/30/2011 11:11 AM
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Yeah, I knew about the disconnect, but I didn't know that the player thoughts e-mail was wrong and FSS was right.  I'm not explaining myself well, so I'll ask a question instead.  Are we sure that the color-coded ratings don't have the same disconnect?
12/30/2011 11:14 AM
isack24
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I do not miss Bryan Currie...
12/30/2011 11:15 AM
pepwaves
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Posted by isack24 on 12/30/2011 11:14:00 AM (view original):
Yeah, I knew about the disconnect, but I didn't know that the player thoughts e-mail was wrong and FSS was right.  I'm not explaining myself well, so I'll ask a question instead.  Are we sure that the color-coded ratings don't have the same disconnect?
I don't think it was necessarily the case that the player thoughts email was wrong per se. The FSS range for average potential (7-20) was just different than the range in the player thoughts email (7-19).

But, as for your question...I'm not sure. For some reason though I seem to remember reading that the color-coded ratings are directly correlated to FSS. The player thoughts email was a different system altogether. I could be wrong of course...
12/30/2011 12:14 PM
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they could be wrong

or
 
it could be that the two sets of data were measured at different times

or

it could be some difference in how they handle rounding - some really minor difference

One huge difference NOW is that the colors update so that we get ongoing data

12/30/2011 12:17 PM
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