whatwasthat wrote:I wanted to know if once a player hits his Potential Ability, can his stats still improve
Stats (goals/assists/etc) are going to vary tremendously depending on team, teammates, coaching, etc - IMO if you had the exact same player playing for the exact same team with the exact same linemates and getting the exact same amount of ice time....you'll still have all the variables of your opponents! And any injury to any player would "change things"
Even in a "game" like EHM there are dozens of variables that interact every day of in-game play, and hundreds of variables in an in-game game.....and every time something happens everything is recalculated, so thousands of recalculations daily....if over a "career" you kept all of these calculations exactly the same while keeping the playing conditions of both Malkins exactly the same, and the opponents effect was kept exactly the same,
IMO you'd get exactly the same stats (but in reality many of the thousands and thousands of " significant decions" made by themselves/others over their careers would be different, so
this "sameness" would/could never actually occur)
Part of the "joy" of the game is that a player somewhere else might play better on your team (AND just because a player does "better" after leaving your team doesn't neccessarily mean they would have dome as well if kept on your team).....this is because of all of these "variables"
Regards
P.S. IMO the "numbers" I used are very conservative...I susoect is actually many millions of factors that would have to be kept exactly the same to compare the same player in the way you are talking
A player's Attributes would also vary "depending".....depending on things like practice time, coaching, facillities, injuries, etc. - and again I suspect IF the many many factors that would have an effect were kept exactly the same IMO you'd get the same "stats" (but this would/could never occur)
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