Originally posted by climberpete
I read somewhere that is was a count of how many SPs it would take to build the dot from scratch. So to get speed up to 60 it would take 48 + (12 *2) = 72
I don't know if it takes into account starting all skills at 8, I heard that it doesn't count equipment. This is more or less correct. It is a little more precise than this though....it uses the exact cutoff points of caps to determine the EL.
For example....this is my P -
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2436934 The calc is easy b/c he only has one skill above the 48 cap.
For all of his skills besides punting, we simply add their values up for a total of 152.98.
For punting, you have to evaluate what portion of his attribute points have a value of 1. B/c the 48 cap cutoff is actually 48.07, 49.02 pts in Punting have a value of 1.
To evaluate the 2nd cap(60.52)....61.02 - 49.02 = 12 * 2 SPs/attribute point = 24
To evaluate the 3rd cap...64.02 - 61.02 = 3 * 3 = 9
152.98 + 49.02 + 24 + 9 = 235 which is what it says on his profile page.
Every point in the build is accounted for (including skills that start at 8), and it does not count EQ.