Alex Kalinin wrote :
I have multiple 4,5/5 or 5/4,5. Although not 5/5, I think it's close enough and a bit too many. These players should be unicorns.
Proper gradation as I see it:
4,5-5 stars: generation talents, super rare
4: star players, national teams level
3-3,5: just good players, core of a team
2-2,5: rotation
Less than 2: stay away
Anyways, my point is: youth is a bit too accessible and limiting the pool of young players by removing them from teamless market should push managers towards transfer market more. At least in theory.
Whereas in reality we currently have the situation where its:
4.5+/4.5+ : quite hard to find on list and can be expensive, but are pulled from youth reasonably often
4.5+/2.5+ : decent trainees and reasonably easy to find/cheap
4/4+: Maybe ok if already good enough to get in your 1st team and have decent xp - otherwise don't bother
Anything less: look to sell what you have to a newbie who might need them as temporary starter and steer clear of buying unless you're only doing so for the xp training
I agree that it's not perfect at the moment - personally I think the proportions of players available are fine and it's the potential drop-off that is too much - a 4 shouldn't be so far off a 5 in terms of each stat.
It's difficult to change mid-stream though as people have already reacted once to changes in effective player value when initially Learning was the key stat and not a lot else mattered. Now it feels like Potential is the key thing thing that matters. People dumped their high learners and flipped to high potential. We're in a cycle where people are dumping the average potential players they have and not surprisingly nobody wants them so its release or nothing.
If he switches again so the players people have dumped are suddenly useful again managers are going to get increasingly frustrated.
You could change the way the actual ratings are shown in stars though I suppose - would only really work if the low potential players have already been pushed out of the game or you shift to a rating out of 10 with smaller steps between them.