2011-12 players are now available Topic

The 2011-12 players are now available.  Anyone affected by All-Defense will be updated when those are announced.

Keep in mind that real life stat totals for this season are all pro-rated to an 82 game season, so there are no special fatigue worries with these guys due to the shortened season.
5/1/2012 1:44 PM (edited)
seble.....who does the position effectiveness? do they actually know basketball at all or just math formulas?

andre iguodala 98% sf? thad young 98% pf? thats terrible and philly is just the first team i looked at....just pay someone to do them manually....hell id do it for cheap


.well done getting them out early this year though....that was waaaaay sooner then i expected
5/1/2012 11:29 PM
Nothing is done manually (outside of adjusting a few listed positions).  It's based on how the player's statistical profile fits each position. 
5/2/2012 1:59 PM
I understand the desire to get them out quick but why wouldn't someone go through and check some things first? Dwayne Wade is a PG? Jason Terry isn't 100% at SG?

It would take less than a day.
5/2/2012 3:01 PM
Other than a few exceptions, players should be the same effectiveness from year to year.  There are 2 years that Larry Bird isn't listed as 100% at SF.  This has all been pointed out before........
5/2/2012 6:31 PM
Posted by seble on 5/2/2012 1:59:00 PM (view original):
Nothing is done manually (outside of adjusting a few listed positions).  It's based on how the player's statistical profile fits each position. 
1- This makes no sense at all and
2- I have a hard time believing this. In fact there is no way seble is correct on this.

example:  Shaq and Dwight Howard.

Tell me what about Dwight Howard's stats is different from Shaq's?  You can't because they are essentially the same and yet Dwight is 100% PF and Shaq is only low 90's. 

Ohhhhhh.  You mean his personal height/weight statistical profile??!!!   You use THAT to measure position effectiveness? I'm pretty sure Shaq wasn't anywhere near 300lbs in 1993. 

5/2/2012 10:41 PM (edited)
The point of the PE change that took place last time was to make the game MORE open, but I guess that got forgot when the 11-12 players came out.
I'm pretty sure Shaq wasn't anywhere near 300lbs in 1993. 

He actually was very near 300lbs - he just had an incredibly low % of body fat, but that's beside the point.  It's really dumb.
If h/w play such a role, then why isn't Barkley 100% at SG?  6'4" that's not even 100% at SF (the position he played on defense most of the time even though he was 100% at PF).  Oh... it's because of the statistical roles... Like how PF and C are virtually the same position now, yet there are so many guys that are 100% C that aren't even close at PF.  For example, Wilt, one of the most athletic players of all time (he ran track, did high jump, etc.  He wasn't this lumbering, slow giant like Shaq after he got fat), is not 100% at PF (or even higher than 90).  But whatever.  I'd honestly like to see every player 100% at at least 2 positions.  Then I could fulfill the "What If?" principle of ... what if Shaq & Wilt played on the court together?  Or Wilt & Gilmore.  Or Wilt & Kareem.  Or Wilt & Wilt!
5/2/2012 10:54 PM
A quick look at some defensive ratings: The three best defensive wings in the league (INPO) are 75, 76, and 83 (thats Iggy, LBJ, and Trick or Treat Tony). Now, lets look at some notables below 70 (just for comparison, Brandon Wright (now one of my favorite sixth men in the database because of this and his otherwise fantastic season) is a 97; Sasha Pavlovic is a 79, Derrick Rose is a 75, hell Cole Aldrich is an 83 (albeit anything can happen in <300 minutes (see Jeremy Lin's perfect 100 in 2010-11))):

Below 70(.1): KG, Camby, Howard, CP3, Rondo,Leonard, Asik (could be in the 90s), JOAKIM NOAH (67, you shitting me?), Thabo Sefolosha?, TYSON CHANDLER, TYSON CHANDLER, TYSON CHANDLER, um, Shawn Marion, Varejao, Luol Deng (58, hmmm apparently derrick rose is the best defender in chicago's starting lineup??????), Avery Bradley (53, yeah, 53), Pierce (51), Grant Hill is tied with Vlad Radmanovic and Lester Hudson, oh yeah and the defensive player of the year (60) is tied with Steph Curry, Kirk Hinrich, and Yi Jianlian. Not sure how the Defensive ratings are done but goddamit, I'd been looking forward to these stats coming out for weeks, planning who I thought would be good values (like say Chandler having one of the all time great seasons from an extremely low usage player, or Lebron James having one of the best seasons ever and then (and I was expecting mid-low 90s at least for both of them) and then this. Still love the site but the basketball portion is starting to look more and more like a ******* wasteland especially in the face of the leaps and bounds of progress in the basketball statistical analysis department happening all the time now (that sentence made more sense in my head :) ). This site could be fantastic as the world starts to embrace basketball analytics this decade the way they did with baseball and SABRmetrics last, but it seems like there is no effort being put in at all.
5/2/2012 11:00 PM
Great examples Ash.  These athletes all do things no one their size should be capable of.  There is no reason to limit them. 
At most they should have 3 categories g, g/f, f/c.

Any coach would kill to have a Shaq / Wilt combo!


5/2/2012 11:02 PM
many of those guys you mentioned, we4get1918, will get a boost when they announce the all-defense teams.  But yeah, defensive ratings are laughable.  All I really need to do is say the following:

Bill Russell has a defensive rating around 70 every year of his career except for his *ahem* last *ahem* one.

But all in all, I enjoy the sim.  It's just really, really sad that they can't get some things more right.
5/3/2012 12:41 AM
dont forget that Russell's last season was where he finally got his act together and played good enough defense to get named to the all d team, finally...


or maybe it was the season that the nba originally instituted nba all d squads - I forget which but it's got to be one of those two

unfortunately the player database is triple locked with secret codes like the red phone to the silos in the president's office

so manual adjustments of completely retarded output is nigh on impossible - it's not like someone could just click a few keys and turn 70 to 90 or such like...
5/3/2012 10:52 AM (edited)
plus if they did do that just about everybody would complain about how arbitrary it was to just manually adjust the defensive rating of a nobody schlep like Russell based only and solely on the opinion and testimony of everybody who knows anything about the game basketball
5/4/2012 7:16 AM
A couple of notes:

- There's literally no possible system for effectiveness or defensive rating that will please everyone.  Sure we could go through and subjectively change some guys, but that goes against the statistical nature of the game and wouldn't be based on any factual data.  I believe an objective (albeit imperfect) system is still better than a subjective system with arbitrary numbers being assigned.

- Height and weight are factored into effectiveness, in case that wasn't a widely known fact.

- I understand that seeing anything less than 100% is a turnoff for most coaches here, but in reality, effectiveness in the upper 90% range is not going to be big deal in game results. 

- Just to clarify, there were no changes to any of the formulas or logic for players this year.

- It's easy to adjust listed positions, so if you see any of those that are off just send in a support ticket and we'll review those.
5/4/2012 9:21 PM
6'11"  with 90% of fga's in the paint

is 10 points more of a PF than

7'  with only 68% of shots in the paint and can also handle the ball better?

We're not asking you to go through 1 by 1 and make adjustments.  We are asking you to change the way you categorize players entirely.

Lamar Odom  96% PG
Josh Smith 99% SG, 94% PG
and yet Shaq is only 90% PF.

Complete overhaul needed.







5/4/2012 9:47 PM
"Sure we could go through and subjectively change some guys, but that goes against the statistical nature of the game and wouldn't be based on any factual data. "

Kind of like what you did with Bill Russell by giving him a laughable number of blocks considering the pace of the game?  And Wilt for that matter, but Russell's are worse.
"- I understand that seeing anything less than 100% is a turnoff for most coaches here, but in reality, effectiveness in the upper 90% range is not going to be big deal in game results. "

9 0  is not high 90s.  It's ridiculous that any Wilt before his injury in 69 is not at least 97 or 98 at PF (should be 100%).  Tim Duncan is 100% PF... Wilt is waaaaaaaay more athletic than Duncan ever could even dream of being.  Even Shaq pre 2000s was much more athletic than Duncan at any point in his career.

Honestly, there should be no difference in PF & C in the sim.  The two positions have become essentially the same position in the NBA.  At no point will anybody be able to "take advantage" of anybody by playing any current PF at C or any current C at PF.  It's just something we'd like to be able to do for variety.  So why not do it?  You really, really should think about this one.
6'11"  with 90% of fga's in the paint

is 10 points more of a PF than

7'  with only 68% of shots in the paint and can also handle the ball better?

We're not asking you to go through 1 by 1 and make adjustments.  We are asking you to change the way you categorize players entirely.

Lamar Odom  96% PG
Josh Smith 99% SG, 94% PG
and yet Shaq is only 90% PF.

Complete overhaul needed.

Amen.



Oh yeah.  And tov%.  We need to see that.  I've been asking for this for years.  If something is that big of a part of the engine, we should have access to it.

Okay, i've wasted enough of my time since I know that you won't do any of the above or even take any suggestions ever given into mind and do anything with them.

5/4/2012 10:21 PM (edited)
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