Mark said: I think Genie Scout is a great tool and I still use my Genie Scout ratings. I believe there are 2 main issues with Genie Scout and I use my own calculations to correct for these.
The first is the positional rating out of 20. Genie Scout uses a very low adjustment for this and we know from FM Arena testing that the Genie Scout adjuctment is far too low.
Here is my previous information on this subject Adjustment for Positional Rating
After looking at the percentage impact in the FM Arena Attributes testing table for Playing Position Rating over the last few years, it worked out to be very close to 2.5% per point or 1/40th. Then I calculated what Genie Scout uses for a reduction, which is quite a minor adjustment. I took a download of around 1000 wingers and looked at the differences in ratings against their positional ratings out of 20. Moving from 1/40th to 1/46th was the nearest to the adjustment.
Here is the formula for Excel =A1*(1-(20-B1)/46)
In the formula A1 is the location of the rating you want to manipulate and B1 is the location of the position score out of 20.
This is about 2.17% reduction for each point under 20.
In summary, you will need to allow for the adjustment for their positional rating out of 20 ie you need to multiply their GS Rating by 100% minus the difference between 20 and their positional rating multiplied by 2.17%. For example if their GS rating is 50% and their positional rating is 19, it is 20 - 19= 1 multiplied by 2.17% is 2.17%. Take this off 100% = 97.83% multiplied by 50.00% is 48.91%.
The second is the potential rating. I havent posted about this previously but after reading much information on the subject I use the following.
Adjustment for Potential Rating
For an outfield player, if the players age is under 19 I use the Genie Scout Potential Rating (PR). Otherwise I do an adjustment. Here is my Excel calc. IF(AGE<19,GSPsnPotRating,IF(AGE<26,(26-AGE)/8*(GSPsnPotRating-GSPsnsRating)+GSPsnRating,GSPsnRating))*(1-((20-PR)/IF(PR<11,1,2))/46).
It is slightly different for GKs. But I am sure people can adapt this to meet their needs.
The first is the positional rating out of 20. Genie Scout uses a very low adjustment for this and we know from FM Arena testing that the Genie Scout adjuctment is far too low.
Here is my previous information on this subject
Adjustment for Positional Rating
After looking at the percentage impact in the FM Arena Attributes testing table for Playing Position Rating over the last few years, it worked out to be very close to 2.5% per point or 1/40th. Then I calculated what Genie Scout uses for a reduction, which is quite a minor adjustment. I took a download of around 1000 wingers and looked at the differences in ratings against their positional ratings out of 20. Moving from 1/40th to 1/46th was the nearest to the adjustment.
Here is the formula for Excel =A1*(1-(20-B1)/46)
In the formula A1 is the location of the rating you want to manipulate and B1 is the location of the position score out of 20.
This is about 2.17% reduction for each point under 20.
In summary, you will need to allow for the adjustment for their positional rating out of 20 ie you need to multiply their GS Rating by 100% minus the difference between 20 and their positional rating multiplied by 2.17%. For example if their GS rating is 50% and their positional rating is 19, it is 20 - 19= 1 multiplied by 2.17% is 2.17%. Take this off 100% = 97.83% multiplied by 50.00% is 48.91%.
The second is the potential rating. I havent posted about this previously but after reading much information on the subject I use the following.
Adjustment for Potential Rating
For an outfield player, if the players age is under 19 I use the Genie Scout Potential Rating (PR). Otherwise I do an adjustment. Here is my Excel calc. IF(AGE<19,GSPsnPotRating,IF(AGE<26,(26-AGE)/8*(GSPsnPotRating-GSPsnsRating)+GSPsnRating,GSPsnRating))*(1-((20-PR)/IF(PR<11,1,2))/46).
It is slightly different for GKs. But I am sure people can adapt this to meet their needs.
I hope this helps someone.
Hey can u share ur gs rating file with me please?