I've asked repeatedly for the ability to see players' tov%, as well as being able to search for it and sort by it in the draft center, only to be flat out ignored by uknowho.
I just realized that I never submitted a ticket about it. Not that it will necessarily do any good, maybe I'll get a response about it, something I've never gotten here.
anyway, here's the ticket I submitted:
"Hello. I would like to inquire about the lack of an important stat being displayed for players as well as the fact that we can't search for it or sort by it in the draft center.
That stat is tov%, or turnover %. From the knowledge base:
2. # Now that we have picked a player, we must determine what he will do with the ball. There are three things he can do: turn the ball over (3), shoot (5) or be fouled (4). Every player has a real-life turnover percentage, field goal attempt percentage and times fouled percentage that is relative to his total number of actual possessions. At this point, many factors can adjust those percentages and affect whether we go to step 3, 4 or 5. Generally, we will view the chance that he shoots as the amount remaining after modifications to fouled percentage and turnover percentage. These factors include: the man defending the player, the rest of the defense, the type of offense, the type of defense, a player’s fatigue value, any team under-possession penalty and the player’s over-possession penalty.
So, from this section of the knowledge base, it is turnover % that determines a player's likelihood of turning the ball over - not turnovers per 48 minutes, total turnovers or assist to turnover ratio (the only things we can see as well as search/sort by). In addition to this, it tells us there's a thing called fouled percentage which tells us how likely a player is to get to the line.
With the normalization that you have attempted to put in place, owners cannot rely on either totals or per-minute stats to determine how good a guy is at getting to the line or how prone he is to turn the ball over. We have to break out a calculator or surf the web to try and find the information that we need - assuming the info is out there (players before turnovers were kept as an official stat, for instance).
It would be like using the current system for rebounding without giving us the oreb% and dreb% percentages. We would simply be guessing on the old players (prior to offensive rebounding being kept as a stat in the NBA) and for the most part have to put way more effort into building teams - so much so, that, I would bet many owners would give up.
Since this sim is driven by the advanced statistics, we need to be able to see, search for and sort by all of these advanced statistics.
It is with all of this in mind that I beg of you to please, give us the ability to see a player's tov%, as well as their fouled%, and to be able to search for the stat in the data base as well as sort our results by it. I believe this would help every owner better understand the sim and quit needlessly blasting WIS about it."
Thoughts?