Need advice for developing Players

Looking at it more.  That player got 281 points in that season - this can explain the drop in her potential from a High Top 6 to a High Top 9 - EA played their cards.  Clearly EA is using a rolling counter that measures the points a player has in a given year that runs from 0 - 255.  When she scored her 256th point it rolled over to 0 - and at 281 she was credited for only 25 points - a poor season, hence her potential dropped.

@EA_Aljocan you tell the team developing NHL 23 that they have to make that hidden points counter not roll over from 255 to 0 for the next game?  Only a 10 minute fix I'm sure and we don't need players only scoring 40 more points than Gretzky fizzling out because of the rolling error.  This is the opposite of a simming penalty.  They can add a line:

if (player[x].seasonpoints==255) break;
else player[x].seasonpoints++;    // I'm sure programmers will get this even if they find it archaic

Or they can calculate it from adding the season points from different teams into one int variable bigger than 1 byte, and apply the bonuses that way, or they can just use a second byte per player to store that data.  Any of those should fix the issue.