I've made these discoveries and posted them in other threads, so here is a summary. Many will see this as cheating. I'll make no judgement on that. Use this at your own discretion.
Occasionally you get an email that says a player's "Stock is Rising" or he is "Overachieving". This means his potential went up. If a player is near a potential benchmark, he can actually go up in potential. Basically if he is B+ he might become an A. You can see this by sorting by potential in Roster Management to see how your guys stack up. They can also lose potential by getting a "Starting to Struggle" email.
Here is how to manipulate that. Those emails start in mid May, perhaps the second week or so. They tend to happen to players on hot or cold streaks (the flame icons next to the player). Here is the big kicker...they happen only on Wednesdays and they can happen on any Wednesday. This means you can sim every Wednesday on your franchise season until you get the email you want about the player you want. Think your guy is overrated? Knock him down this way. Underrated? Drive him up.
Some rules here: You only seem to be able to get one email about any player a year, so no taking your "D" prospects into "A" status. You can get a low B guy to low A in a few years though. This also works on Wednesdays during the playoffs, but I'm not sure if your team has to be in the playoffs or not.
Here is another loophole to help. When a player gets on a streak, demote him to your Class A team. They don't actually play games at that level, so that hot streak he is on will never end. He stays hot all season, increasing the odds that he gets a potential email. This works really well in September when minor league games are over and these guys are some of your only players who stay on a hot or cold streak.
As you can see, you can really reshape your roster in a just a couple of seasons if you are patient with this. Again, I'll leave it to you to decide whether this is ok to do. It will allow some course corrects on OSFM potentials that you might not have agreed with.
Occasionally you get an email that says a player's "Stock is Rising" or he is "Overachieving". This means his potential went up. If a player is near a potential benchmark, he can actually go up in potential. Basically if he is B+ he might become an A. You can see this by sorting by potential in Roster Management to see how your guys stack up. They can also lose potential by getting a "Starting to Struggle" email.
Here is how to manipulate that. Those emails start in mid May, perhaps the second week or so. They tend to happen to players on hot or cold streaks (the flame icons next to the player). Here is the big kicker...they happen only on Wednesdays and they can happen on any Wednesday. This means you can sim every Wednesday on your franchise season until you get the email you want about the player you want. Think your guy is overrated? Knock him down this way. Underrated? Drive him up.
Some rules here: You only seem to be able to get one email about any player a year, so no taking your "D" prospects into "A" status. You can get a low B guy to low A in a few years though. This also works on Wednesdays during the playoffs, but I'm not sure if your team has to be in the playoffs or not.
Here is another loophole to help. When a player gets on a streak, demote him to your Class A team. They don't actually play games at that level, so that hot streak he is on will never end. He stays hot all season, increasing the odds that he gets a potential email. This works really well in September when minor league games are over and these guys are some of your only players who stay on a hot or cold streak.
As you can see, you can really reshape your roster in a just a couple of seasons if you are patient with this. Again, I'll leave it to you to decide whether this is ok to do. It will allow some course corrects on OSFM potentials that you might not have agreed with.
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