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Originally Posted by RchW
It happens and I find it one of the better things in the game. We all know players that are 3-4 year wonders and then drop off into obscurity. As evidence meet Julio Medina. His AAA numbers forced me to find a spot for him this season (2017). He was supposed to be a backup, but I never guessed that he would hit 36 HR and force two much better potential players to the bench. I don't expect him to continue for very long.
In my experience the actual moves to meet potential. Not the other way.
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I think what was being talked about was the actual ratings. In past version player ratings (i.e. Contact, Control, etc.) could be higher for current than potential, in effect "giving away" the fact that a player was on his way to having their ratings decline. This made it easy to trade away players who had taken potential hits, particularly as players aged.
What you're seeing is the difference in how overall and potential ratings are calculated. Potential can be based on all players in the league on the same scale or just players at a given position. It may be that you have potential based on all players in the game or there are just a lot of high potential youngsters at the position. Either way, I know there's a option to prevent this sort of thing from happening or it was programmed away recently. I haven't seen this in any of my games in OOTPX in the last several months.