Thanks for working on this Eugene.
It seems player valuation will never be as accurate as it use to be, purely due to some of the new AI factors.
I saw a youth player of Manchester UTD with 80% potential ability in his position.
Genie Reccomends 6M. But I am a rival team in the same division, not only that, but I think the larger teams that consistantly produce good players (real madrid, man utd, barcelona etc) ask a massive price for promising youth players, probably because its essential to them they have so many players from their own country registered in their squad in the future.
In this case after bidding 6m. Manchester UTD suggested 27 million instead:
I wondered if there was any way to calculate the projected value of a player, based upon factors that seem to affect the asking price of the AI. A few I can think of:
1. Clubs will always ask for more money if they know that you are a larger reputation club with a larger transfer budget.
2. Rival Clubs are more unwilling to sell a player.
3. Homegrown players may be worth more in their country of origin due to the limitation on how many foreign players may be registered (league rules)
4. Player happiness etc
5. Sale club reputation, players more likely to stay at a club with a larger reputation than yours. (Maybe manager rep also comes in to play).
I'm sure theres more to it and I know Eugene will know more than me, but I just wondered if there is any hope of gaining accurate value estimation given how complicated this seems to have become.