Just to echo Jan Itor, it's a killer in I.1 here as well. My current fans evaluation of my just finished season (as I described it above) has now declined to 2.5 balls. That's going to have effect all through next season. It's an indefensible system.
you've lost your last league game and your last tv game. Now, God forbid if that opponent were your rival too!
I consider potential as a thing that should prevent teams which started first to have best trained squad so easily - if anybody could be hall of famer they would just train their players. Now they have to bother to choose the ones with potential or based on expenses and their competition prefer the ones with just right for them. If you can train (and be able to pay) everyone to all-around legendary skills this game would be boring as newer teams almost could not catch up because the shorter time of training. I guess that was an important reason why potential was added to the game (i wasn't there in Season 3, didn't read the news release about this thing).Potential and salaries are limits to prevent all legendary rosters and forcing you to looking for best impact/price ratio both at the moment and long term. Not that bad thing I guess.