Intuition, something that all good managers have.

There is considerable opinion that the numbers mean nothing, I have to sit on the fence with this, as when looking for a potential purchase, I always check out the players numbers, particularly how many skill points to next *.

I then take in consideration the age of the player, general overall fitness, then their primary skills and finally their secondary skills. If you find a player that is fairly balanced in all 3, then it is a good chance he has been managed, and I put this into the process too.

Then I rely on my luck in judgement, so far, well I am perhaps 65%-35% to the good.

Oh and I am League / manager lvl 5, so only a junior. ;-)