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Originally Posted by kriscolic
I think that people often conflate "potential" with "ceiling".
Imagine an 18-year old behemoth, Joey Longball. He's the sort who can jack 500-foot dingers in batting practice. Scouts would say that he has an 80-grade ceiling for power (20-80 scale, like real life scouts use). His potential power, though, would reflect a scout's best guess as to how much of that power would translate into home run production during that players prime. If Joey can only crush fastballs, his potential power would be somewhere below 80. If, 3 years later, a 21-year old Joey has learned to hit breaking balls his potential grade would have improved to something closer to 80.
Hope that makes sense...
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Yea not a ceiling. I don't see that this has been specifically addressed but current ratings can go up and exceed previous potential rating. At least this is what happens with real players on three year recalc. I don't play fictional players so can't say what happens there.