A loss in potentials impacts actuals?

Cowboys3356 · 08-07-2013, 10:04 PM

If you have an established player, say 30 years old, suffer a reduction to their potential ratings will that impact their actual ratings or are the two completely separate with no impact after the player's actual development has finished which it presumably has at 30 years old.

Thoughts?

Questdog · 08-07-2013, 10:27 PM

no, it for SURE will impact the player......WHEN, is not so sure.....older players will decline regardless of their potential ratings, but those with good potential ratings will decline slower than those with poor ones......

Think of potential ratings as a force pulling the actual ratings toward itself......it is not the only force acting on the actual ratings, however, and other forces (i.e. aging) work either against it (an old player with good potential ratings) or in concert with it (an old player with poor potential ratings)....of course, when all the forces acting upon the actual ratings are headed in the same direction, the trip is much shorter.....

P.S. I did experiments on this a while ago to figure it out, so this is not mere speculation......

Cowboys3356 · 08-08-2013, 10:34 AM

Thanks for the response and good to here you tested this theory. I have always felt like there was a connection and I like the way you describe it as the potential ratings being one of many forces pulling a player's actual ratings toward their eventual decline.

08-07-2013, 10:04 PM	#1
Cowboys3356 All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,571	A loss in potentials impacts actuals? If you have an established player, say 30 years old, suffer a reduction to their potential ratings will that impact their actual ratings or are the two completely separate with no impact after the player's actual development has finished which it presumably has at 30 years old. Thoughts?

08-07-2013, 10:27 PM	#2
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	no, it for SURE will impact the player......WHEN, is not so sure.....older players will decline regardless of their potential ratings, but those with good potential ratings will decline slower than those with poor ones...... Think of potential ratings as a force pulling the actual ratings toward itself......it is not the only force acting on the actual ratings, however, and other forces (i.e. aging) work either against it (an old player with good potential ratings) or in concert with it (an old player with poor potential ratings)....of course, when all the forces acting upon the actual ratings are headed in the same direction, the trip is much shorter..... P.S. I did experiments on this a while ago to figure it out, so this is not mere speculation...... Last edited by Questdog; 08-07-2013 at 10:31 PM.

08-08-2013, 10:34 AM	#3
Cowboys3356 All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,571	Thanks for the response and good to here you tested this theory. I have always felt like there was a connection and I like the way you describe it as the potential ratings being one of many forces pulling a player's actual ratings toward their eventual decline.