In EHM this simply wouldn't happen. If a player is a potential 3rd liner with, say, 120 Potential Ability points, then he will never be able to progress beyond this once his current ability matches his potential, i.e 120/120. EHM players cannot become more than they were destined to be from the moment they were entered into the game. This is what I mean by the development being 'hard coded' in.
By the way, this might be true for some Attributes but IIRC it's not true for all (I'm pretty sure previous testing I did last summer had shown some Attributes can still grow after CA/PA match); I'm currently compiling some more testing now (looking at all Attributes yearly for over 300 players over 12 years with the data compiled in spreadsheets), so we'll see if my memory is correct/if it's still occurring.
Honestly, many of the older so called EHM experts were often mistaken in their views (and some still profess things that are wrong!); I strongly believe you simply can't accept that all "commonly held views" on EHM07 and the new EHM are correct (part of the reason this summer that I've made all my testing results public is to address this)
Bottom line is I don't care that a handful of guys who shouldn't be stars/superstars can be, and the fact that I deal almost exclusively with retro rosters means I don't want that to actually happen
Also, looking at just "one small thing in isolation" as proof of anything good doesn't work for me (like the claim that the game engine/scoring is so accurate...but since the save % isn't the scoring being accurate isn't actually accurate) - if the development on the many hundreds of players that are good/top players isn't good then your example becomes just another example of overall poor development IMO
FHM dug itself a deep hole, and the fact that FHM2 was better than FHM is meaningless to me;
I don't compare FHM and EHM, I compare FHM to the claims FHM fans/developers make about FHM (and so far the results have not been good, which is why I tried repeatedly to recommend don't hype the game, don't compare it to EHM, just let it stand on it's own.....if it's actually any good it'll be fine IMO, but based on years of past history raising expectations is simply a bad idea IMO)
You guys can go ahead and respond if you want, but I'm gonna try to let this go now...