Anyone else share the level of frustration when you recruit a freshman with high potential only to have him in red by the beginning of his junior year? I know exactly how potential works, so I'm not asking for an explanation of how it works.. However, I don't understand how you can have a high potential category at the start of your freshman year only to end up in red by the beginning of their junior season. Any opinions about tweaking on how potential works? Anything you would change?

I don't really have a problem with it. I think there has to be varying degrees of improvement potential. Maybe they could tweak the wording of it. But I'd say if a kid gains 20 pts (which would be in excess of 20% increase), calling it high potential sounds about right. You can always invest more in your O/D if your guys are maxing out earlier than you'd like.

Slowing down the rate of improvement is really the only thing that could change that I think, but then there would be complaints about players not improving fast enough. 

maxing a guy's potential by the beginning of a junior year means you get to use his peak performance for 2 years, that's a good thing

Red also doesn't mean maxed out. If a guy is high potential but with only 21 points of improvement he may still have 5 points to go at the beginning of his junior year if he's red. Either way it's not that big of a deal, if I recruit a guy knowing he's going to get 21 points of improvement and gets that by the start of his junior year I know I have him at his max rating for 2 seasons.

I'm assuming most people seem okay with the way this functions, which is fine. Although, I understand the dynamics of the improvement rate, I think improving 6x-7x in your freshman and sophomore seasons might be somewhat unbalanced compared to the junior and senior seasons, especially with high potential, even if it's on the low end.

Posted by deer454 on 1/28/2014 3:34:00 PM (view original):
maxing a guy's potential by the beginning of a junior year means you get to use his peak performance for 2 years, that's a good thing

 

Yeah, definitely. Much better than to hit his stride at the beginning of his junior year compared to the end of his senior season, no doubt.

Posted by emy1013 on 1/28/2014 3:30:00 PM (view original):
Slowing down the rate of improvement is really the only thing that could change that I think, but then there would be complaints about players not improving fast enough. 

soft caps?

i guess that doesnt necessarily address this specific complaint, but it does alleviate most in this body of complaints, if you will...