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130305.51 in reply to 130305.49
Date: 2/7/2010 6:11:58 AM
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I am not asking to be the same, but i am having hard time to understand the necessity to change the current system. Reduce our profit maybe? and force us to train more balanced players, with more affordable salaries? Just a thought.


the profit correlates with the salarys, so it won't be a key for it ;) And here the system is for everyone the same, so that this argument works.

Also i would say price change before and after PO will make the profit higher, because there you need other prices.

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Date: 2/7/2010 12:44:01 PM
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Yes a player could become capped before reaching the salary that we estimate he will be capped at. This would most likely happen if he was trained well rounded leading to a lower salary yet a high number of skills. This is because we use the salary as a means of estimating simply because we know the cap and the salary formula are both dependant on the skills. With the salary formula changing to meet the changing economic conditions this is becoming an increasingly ineffective means of estimating when a player will become capped. As I had suggested in another thread a more accurate and applicable means of estimating potential caps is the total number of skills and something we should transition to using instead of a salary number which will fluctuate.

The issue is that we don't know if the potential cap is a weighted mean,because if we only see at the sum of skills,a big man with legendary potential could reach the legendary level in all the primary skills,but he could have a total sum of skill included the "guards skills" below than a center with lower primary skills and higher "guards skills"

Last edited by Steve Karenn at 2/7/2010 12:44:15 PM

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130305.53 in reply to 130305.52
Date: 2/7/2010 1:31:19 PM
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Completely agree that we would need to figure out if it is weighted. However this can be done by collecting enough data on the total skills of a capped player and their distribution. We have done similar to this in order to break down the salary formula and figure out how its computed. My point is that its not efficient to measure when a player will be capped with a standard that will be fluctuating over time (salary).

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Date: 2/7/2010 2:01:13 PM
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Sum of skills has its limitations, probably more than the salary method. Using the example of allstar potential, the minimum sum of skills before hitting the cap is probably in the neighbourhood of 50 (a uni-skilled C) with the maximum (for a very balanced player) being in the 100 range - maybe even more.

The salaries for the salary method can be updated every season without too much trouble.

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130305.56 in reply to 130305.38
Date: 2/11/2010 2:44:15 PM
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So, it makes sense that the two would be tightly correlated.



Ok, I think it is interesting that you use the term "tightly correlated" and that you did not say that the potential cap is proportional to salary. You are studying physics, so I am pretty sure you know the difference. ;-)

This brings up a question that is highly debated:

-Do potentials have sub-levels?

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130305.57 in reply to 130305.56
Date: 2/15/2010 7:40:00 PM
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-Do potentials have sub-levels?
Great question.....I was going to ask that myself.