
However, rather than being a direct estimate of his potential ability, a player’s perceived potential ability is based mostly on his age and perceived current ability. Perceived potential ability is shown relative to perceived current ability and works in a similar manner to perceived current ability in respect to gold, silver and black stars, and the knowledge and attributes (Judging Player Potential in this case) of coaches and scouts. Similarly to current ability, potential ability is estimated by coaches and scouts (by using their Judging Player Potential staff attribute) and presented in the form of perceived potential ability star ratings, with your coaches giving perceived potential ability star ratings for players at your own club and your scouts giving them for players at other clubs. Therefore, the potential ability rating that a player has at the start of his career (or at the start the game) is typically the maximum rating that his current ability can reach. Potential AbilityĮach player also has a hidden potential ability rating out of 200 that acts as a limit for his current ability and typically remains static throughout his career. You can check the date of the latest scout report on the report itself. Therefore, if a player’s perceived current ability star rating decreases it does not necessarily mean that the player has become worse, while if it increases it does not necessarily mean that he has become better.Ĭoaches always provide up-to-date information on your players but the perceived current ability given by scouts needs to be updated with new scout reports.

So a player with good weaker foot strength would have less of his current ability left to be distributed to his playing attributes.

As an example, Tackling is considered to be more important for centre backs than Finishing and so ‘uses up’ more current ability for centre backs than Finishing does.
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Eccentricity, Free Kicks, Penalty Taking, Rushing Out, Tendency To Punch and Off The Ball are zero-weighted for goalkeepers (no current ability is distributed to them).


In other words, playing attributes ‘use up’ or ‘cost’ current ability and more important attributes ‘use up’ or ‘cost’ more current ability than less important attributes. The more important an attribute is, the heavier its weighting. (Weighted) playing attributes– current ability is distributed to the player’s playing attributes on a weighted basis, with the weighting of an attribute depending on its supposed importance for the player’s playing position or positions.A player’s current ability is distributed to the factors of current ability, which are:
