Quote:No, understanding how to use growth potential to evaluate players is the one of the very most basic concepts of being evaluating. It is the equivalent of basic arithmetic to the entire field of mathematics. 

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You don't get it.  The field of mathematics is easy.  It's predictable with certainty.  You can't debate 2+2=4... You can assert it with confidence.  

 

You asserting or projecting a player's potential growth is nowhere near as accurate.  It's very much debatable.  You may say a certain player doesn't have high potential whereas someone else may disagree.  In your arrogance you think you are doing something, call it "evaluating".... that has some kind of foundation.  In reality even your foundation is very shaky.  Your "basic arithmetic" can be very wrong.  If someone knew how to quantify "growth potential" then you would have a lot more success.  Right now you're just GUESSING.  Call it what it is.

 

I'm not saying you SHOULD know better.  The point is, even a lot of teams don't.  

 

I'll leave you with a snippet from Jim Mora.  He's not talking about evaluating players, but the gist of the message still rings true to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHipzGL4dwM

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