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Originally Posted by highandoutside
One additional question, with Dev - On / Recalc- Off, and “base potential ratings on rest of career”, is a player’s development Likely to follow the arc of his real career, but with more variability than straight-up recalc? Or will the potential ratings fluctuate with whatever random path the development engine takes him on?
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Potential ratings have always been a bit murky to me... From the manual:
"A potential rating (such as Contact Potential) is your scouting director's assessment of how good this player could possibly become at this ability over time. (If you have scouting turned off, you still see potential ratings. It's just your coaching staff providing the information instead.)"
I assume - but am far from certain - that the assessment is garnered primarily - but probably not exclusively - from the player's future historical stats.
Based upon that assumption, plus how Dev ON and Recalc OFF work, I would say that potential ratings would be very much a crapshoot. Kind of like the equivalent of a scout saying "I saw this guy workout once and he looked great. But I have no idea what position he plays, what age he is, and what is intellect and work ethic. But based only upon that one workout, if I had to rate his potential I rate it as pretty high..." I mean, I wouldn't think that the scout's assessment would take into to account the random whims of future player development, especially if Development is set to a high number.
Maybe OOTP knows when recalc is off and ignores the player's historical stats other than the current year, and bases a sort of wild guess off of only the player's current-season stats.
If someone could clarify this, that'd be cool
