[Rain King]

A few things here.

1.) It was touched on above, but if you are using scouting then the potential rating could change just based on the the scout's opinion at that time. Scouts tend to become more accurate in their ratings the more established a player becomes and/or the more they see them.

2.) Player's underneath talent's do change. There is a setting within your leagues Development settings that controls how often that occurs.

3.) Injuries can affect potential (as well as current) ratings.

4.) Once a player gets to 30 the game no longer considers them to have "potential" and so instead shows their current and potential rating as being the same. It is still possible that their ratings can develop in some ways, but mostly from that point they are going to decline.


My favorite way to play the game is with Current Ratings (2-8), but no individual Potential Ratings aside from the "Overall Potential" (20-80). This feels more realistic to me as you don't get mucked up in the specific potential ratings and look more at the overall potential of the player. If you want to know more about their potential from there you can read the scouting report.