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From: Golub

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I am scanning this Jozef K topic and I again can't find answer of my question, because in 11 seasons of my playing I was always thought that if you train allstar and superstar at the age of 23 with same skills, allstar won't be able to up although he didn't reached his potential cap so I concluded that age and potential is tight connected and again I say that I am quiet sure that there must be some scale of potential/age.

the higher the potential, the player can be trained to a higher degree.


And according to this sentence allstar will up at the age of 23, because he didn't reached his potential cap.

So there must be some year cap for every potential.

So there must be some misunderstanding between us :) But in every case, thank you!

From: GM-hrudey

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The only things potential does are:
1. inflate prices on the transfer market! ;)
2. determine how much skill a player can have before he is capped.

The jozefK topic gives some good numbers on how the caps may be calculated. Essentially, the potential determines the maximum sum that can be reached for the player before the training is slowed because of the soft cap. But it's not directly linked to age; a 25 year old player with starter potential who has received little training could arguably might not have hit the cap, while a 23 year old all star may already have been capped. You would need to know the players' skills and plug them into the formula to determine whether the player is capped or not.

From: Golub

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But you can't train that 25 starter player at that age he won't be able to get a single up although he hasn't reached his potential cap! Is this true or not? So age must be connected to the potential.

From: GM-hrudey

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But you can't train that 25 starter player at that age he won't be able to get a single up although he hasn't reached his potential cap! Is this true or not? So age must be connected to the potential.


He'll train slower than he would if he's 18 because he's older. But if his skills haven't reached the potential cap, he'll train just as fast (or slow) as if his potential were MVP. Potential sets the ceiling, and age/trainer level/elastic effect, etc of training affects how fast you get to that ceiling.

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Date: 4/19/2012 10:18:15 AM
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As others have said there is no age cap based on potential it all depends on whether the player has capped skill wise.

From: Muffins

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But you can't train that 25 starter player at that age he won't be able to get a single up although he hasn't reached his potential cap! Is this true or not?


I doubt its true, as far as I know,as long as your trainee is not capped, he can still improve, but at the age of 25 it'll be too slow that its not worth doing it,my 25 y/o star potential who has never got any training pop-ed in DV although it took 3 weeks 1on1 forwards with a lvl 4 trainer (speaking about trainer, I forgot to mention that trainer level also plays an important role in training speed in my previous post,my bad).

From: Golub
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I was exaggerated with my last post that when I said that he won't get a single up.

But if there is no age-potential scale why the training will be to slow for star and not to slow for MVP?

*star hasn't reached his cap, he is far away of his cap

Last edited by Golub at 4/19/2012 10:36:06 AM

From: Golub

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But if his skills haven't reached the potential cap, he'll train just as fast (or slow) as if his potential were MVP.


Do you have example?

From: Muffins

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As far as I know,it shouldn't slow down due to potential. Also the star might be slightly(1 or 2 weeks slower)than the MVP(same age) if he has a low sub-level in that particular skill while the mvp has a high sub-level in that skill

From: Golub

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Date: 4/19/2012 11:02:45 AM
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I am starting to figure this. If I understand everybody who try to explain me this, every player have potential cap and that is a limit of his opportunity to became a great player. And ages, height, trainer and other things just have influence of how quick he will reach his maximum.

So if this is true thanks for everybody :)))

Last edited by Golub at 4/19/2012 11:03:19 AM

From: lamchops

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Yup it sounds like you've understood.

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