I looked at a few different things that I could get from the system.
First, Potential. Anyone with a Purple potential was on my list. How do we get them to purple? What makes them have a purple Future to begin with?
Next, Attributes. How close are they to their potentials? What are their total stats?
Last, Room to grow. Have they reached their FULL POWER!? How do they get there?
If these are your players, you might already know some of these questions and answers but wanted to give the league something to chew on before training camp and for my own selfish desires, I wanted to see who the BEST player in the league truly is. Or rather, who has the potential to be the best, actual performance is a whole other thing.
Part 1: POTENTIAL.
I took everyone’s potential letters and gave them a numerical value. A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=1. Took those values added them up and came up with a decent look at what might make that Future grade turn into lovely shade of Purple.
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The chart above is a nice screenshot of what I looked at but I will explain my findings. First, and easiest to notice, is that every single one of them, with 1 exception of Angel Reese has a total score over 40 points. Now obviously its probably nor that simple, but that is definitely a good starting point to say, if your guy doesn’t hit that 40-point potential benchmark, they probably won’t turn purple.
Second, I took the average of all these players, which comes out to 44. There are currently 8 players that fall below this average number. Now I can’t tell you what this means, but this shows where your player may fall in line with the other purple players. An example being my player, Justin Amos has a 43, which puts him below average in terms of all purple players, but he is the 2nd best SF behind Xue (who is a freak by the way, but we will get to him), so that’s actually not bad in the grand scheme of things.
Last thing to point out is that there is currently only 1 player who stands well above the rest in possible potential, and that is Xue Hoe, with a massive 52 points, and the only player to reach the 50 threshold.
Part 2: Attributes.
Now we’ve seen the potential, but where do all these players currently stand inside of their potential.
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This second chart is pretty self-explanatory but I will run through it anyway. I just totaled up all the stats to get a big combined number, and just like the Potential number that I calculated there was a pretty clear cut off, this time it was 1,000 total attribute points.
Now, there are a few outliers here to mention. As above we were looking at Potential, now we are looking at Currents. So it makes sense that not every person has hit this threshold as some of these players are still Blue, and that one Yellow guy. Interestingly enough, almost every Blue Current player, did not meet these 1,000 points as highlighted in yellow.
There are a few exceptions to point out, they are in orange. First one to note is Pee Wee Kirkland, he is currently the only P/P to be under the 1,000-point threshold. Next are Hoyt Timmerman, Herb Jones, and Antonio Gates. These 3 players are currently B/P but have reached that 1,000 threshold. Looking at their potential numbers Antonio is a 47 in Potential, Herb and Hoyt are both 46, so all 3-above average. Antonio and Hoyt are both late 20’s, but Herb is over prime into 31. My educated guess here is Antonio and Hoyt might hit P/P soon as they are both in range on the previous categories, and I can’t see the history to know of Herb used to be P/P or not, but my guess for him is that he might not ever reach it.
Last thing is that Xue continues to be a freak and is at a whopping 1238 attribute points, which is well above anyone else. Absolute Freak.
Final Part: Room to Grow.
This is the part that might help people with training camp because I calculated where they currently are, against their potential to see where they have the room to grow and maybe finally reach their Final Form.
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I wanted to pick on Pee Wee again here, because we already saw he was an outlier in attribute points, but he has the most room to grow among all other P/P, who all have 0-3, which makes sense as if you are P/P, there probably isn’t much more growing to do.
Herb Jones is another one we looked at as to why he hasn’t turned P/P and we can see he only hasn’t reached full potential in 1 category, so again, not looking like Herb will flip to P/P.
Another obvious point to show is that Mr. Yellow has the most categories with 10 that they have not reached potential in, which is why the system probably believes they can make it all the way to P/P.
So do with this information what you will. I had fun compiling it and maybe next year I’ll do a B/B and see if any might have the ability to change to a Future P, or it could be helpful to see if you train your Blue in a couple categories, if that will get him to flip.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks for reading!
