I'm at a loss as to how this player could be so dominate in D3 ball throughout the entire regular season.

Yes, he went up against Sim AI for the first 10 games. But in conference play -- in the best D3 conference in Allen that is almost full of human coaches -- he still continued to average 34 points a game and shot 44% from the field and 40% from three point range.

He would seem to be average in everything for a D3 guard with the exception of having very good athleticism. But even the athleticism is only very good, it isn't elite.

I'd be very surprised to see this guy put up decent shooting numbers in a backup roll where he'd be facing lesser players. To see him perform this well and with the distribution so unequally balanced, really strikes me as odd.

Thoughts?

He's got a 1:45 assist-to-turnover ratio! Talk about a black hole.

He'd probably be an even better scorer at SF where he could put that LP to use.

Also I love that he averaged 3.1 ppg the previous season...

Why was he not double teamed

That guy isn't even the tip of the iceberg, check out swarthmore in D3 Knight. I personally love the stratgy, only because its something different and somehow it works. But he has taken 2 pretty average players and built a team around them and they continue to win

Yeah, this player putting up those kind of numbers is very odd when you take into account the player ratings. Maybe he just has that "it". I have had loads of players better than him from a ratings perspective never even have his "average" game a single time over their careers, never mind a season.

Well it does help that not 1 of the human coached teams plays a man to man defense. To me that is a little ridiculous that nobody in that conference plays man.

I have seen this before in DIII Tark and all I had to do was DT the player in question. Shoots a low percentage and never passes. Player (and therefore team) shoots 30% and loses. Easy. This coach is probably doing this because no one plays man to man, and also because it is his best option. I would do it too.

It gets difficult when you have a guard and then a big splitting evenly 50 shots per game or 25 each. Then you pick your poison.

Quote: Originally Posted By tannermcc on 3/09/2010Why was he not double teamed

Yup, never understood it when you see a coach jam all their distro into one player and nobody bothers to double team them, yet it happens quite often. And this guy isn't even good enough to rise above it like some.

Well, only the zone teams can select to DT him but they probably should have played a 3-2. And they also play fastbreak uptempo. Not sure of the reality of fastbreak in WIS but in RL he is doing the ol catch and shoot like Stephen Curry does.

no, man teams can as well... he just didn't happen to play any.

I woud think this team woudl do better if he woudl spread the Distribution out a little and, while there isn't much offensive talent in the starters, at least give, say, curtsinger some D. As it stands, despite the gaudy looking scoring numbers, the O efficiency contribution of that player is pretty darn close to neutral with those turnovers. Once he gets into conference play, he's worse than neutral. 43% overall shooting and 37% three shooting. If you strip out the three conference games against the SIMAI it gets worse: 41% overall shooting and only 36% from three. Actually a negative value high volume player. Pretty much if it weren't for that one game against Goucher, his stats against human coaches would look truly horrific; 39% overall shooting and 33% from three.


What I am curious about on his game log is what happened around York and saint mary's on his schedule. Two games, not with limited minutes either, he has one and seven shots, then goes right back to huge volumes.


He's also rather inconsistent if you look at the game log. He has some really good games, mostly against sims, and some really stinkers, mostly against humans.

press is a continuous DT in theory

I've started doing this against press teams (and select others), since there's nothing they can do about it.

Quote: Originally Posted By arssanguinus on 3/10/2010I woud think this team woudl do better if he woudl spread the Distribution out a little and, while there isn't much offensive talent in the starters, at least give, say, curtsinger some D. As it stands, despite the gaudy looking scoring numbers, the O efficiency contribution of that player is pretty darn close to neutral with those turnovers. Once he gets into conference play, he's worse than neutral. 43% overall shooting and 37% three shooting. If you strip out the three conference games against the SIMAI it gets worse: 41% overall shooting and only 36% from three. Actually a negative value high volume player. Pretty much if it weren't for that one game against Goucher, his stats against human coaches would look truly horrific; 39% overall shooting and 33% from three.


What I am curious about on his game log is what happened around York and saint mary's on his schedule. Two games, not with limited minutes either, he has one and seven shots, then goes right back to huge volumes.


He's also rather inconsistent if you look at the game log. He has some really good games, mostly against sims, and some really stinkers, mostly against humans.

You are saying shooting 33% from the arc is horrific??