Could anyone care to explain how a basically all D2 Pulldown/Dropdown team loses to a Sim AI team. I can't seem to figure it out myself
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A little bit of bad luck for sure, but your team is very poor defensively.

Oh, not your team.  But Brandeis.

My team.  In a bit of a depressed funk as I just watched my season completely end in one game.  About time to start recruiting for next year.  Was counting on five and five at least..  Most of my recruiting class has big potential in defense.  I was hoping I could survive until it kicked in, but obviously not.

his team being poor defensively shouldn't have resulted in a loss....
cabrini has 7 playable players, none better than 50 at D, no super fast/athletic guys, no low post presence, no sniper from the perimeter
just weird

Been trying to noodle out what the bad strategy was.   At this point, might be just time to start playing the freshmen . . . 

you know folks, occasionally the worse team has to beat someone or this game would not be very much fun...

Really though, I am just trying to figure out what I did wrong.  Strategy, lineup, anything.  I'm not railing against the computer gods or saying that this should be impossible, however I find it likely that I must have done SOMETHING wrong to make it close enough for that to come into play.  I want to figure out what that thing was.

the def for 4 of your starters was 21, 30, 36 and 14. That 93 from the other guy only goes so far, especially  if zone works as the new popular theory holds. Your opponent's perimeter players will always have a relatively weak defender on them. You were outrebounded and you failed to convert your opponent's TOs into pts as effectively as he did.  Of course, the other lineup looks like a bunch of walk ons, and much of this could be said about them, which I suppose is where the random aspect of it all comes into play. My advice is recruit or develop better defenders.

Most of my class this year has big potential in defense, as does Hays(Still)  I am right now trying to survive THIS season.

I suppose I am going to move Marden to primary backup, Collins to SG and Hays to starting SF and White to PF.  Should improve both rebounding and defense, albiet at the expense of offense. . . .

Maybe the potential is there, but your team is below-average in terms of both ATH and DEF, so they can easily be burned on that end of the court even by teams without elite scorers.  And on top of that your team is young with uninspiring IQs.  So that makes you more prone to variance in your team performance.  That means you're going to lose some games you think you should win.  This is definitely one of them.  Probably 8 or 9 times out of 10 you beat that team.  With better IQs it would be 9.9 times.  Lot of bad luck at play here.  You have to be careful not to overreact to bad beats and make mistakes in later games by overadjusting.

Develop your players. Play .500 ball all season while they develop, and get ready for your CT. Study your biggest conference foes this season and spend the next month gameplaning how to beat them in the CT. When its time, just win the CT and take that auto bid. Your players should have developed some by then, maybe you pull off a rd 1 win. I don't see anything more than that as a realistic possibility, barring luck and whatnot... I see your dilemma, as another NT miss would lower your prestige yet again, taking you very nearly back to where it all began, and that must be frustrating. Remember, its only 1 game, small samples sizes, and micro-managing is often detrimental. Try to divide the season into quarters and make it a goal to win each quarter. Try not to make too many overall team adjustments (still maintaining any of your game-to-game game plan decisions natch) until after each "quarter" and look for performance trends over the quarter. Keep stats somewhere off site so you can track quarterly changes...good luck.

IQ differential is huge as well.

Posted by dacj501 on 5/18/2011 1:09:00 AM (view original):
Develop your players. Play .500 ball all season while they develop, and get ready for your CT. Study your biggest conference foes this season and spend the next month gameplaning how to beat them in the CT. When its time, just win the CT and take that auto bid. Your players should have developed some by then, maybe you pull off a rd 1 win. I don't see anything more than that as a realistic possibility, barring luck and whatnot... I see your dilemma, as another NT miss would lower your prestige yet again, taking you very nearly back to where it all began, and that must be frustrating. Remember, its only 1 game, small samples sizes, and micro-managing is often detrimental. Try to divide the season into quarters and make it a goal to win each quarter. Try not to make too many overall team adjustments (still maintaining any of your game-to-game game plan decisions natch) until after each "quarter" and look for performance trends over the quarter. Keep stats somewhere off site so you can track quarterly changes...good luck.

Well, I pretty much followed your recipe.   Finished the regular season 17 - 9, won the CT, won a first round game and lost in the second round.

Posted by 4green2 on 6/14/2011 7:02:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dacj501 on 5/18/2011 1:09:00 AM (view original):
Develop your players. Play .500 ball all season while they develop, and get ready for your CT. Study your biggest conference foes this season and spend the next month gameplaning how to beat them in the CT. When its time, just win the CT and take that auto bid. Your players should have developed some by then, maybe you pull off a rd 1 win. I don't see anything more than that as a realistic possibility, barring luck and whatnot... I see your dilemma, as another NT miss would lower your prestige yet again, taking you very nearly back to where it all began, and that must be frustrating. Remember, its only 1 game, small samples sizes, and micro-managing is often detrimental. Try to divide the season into quarters and make it a goal to win each quarter. Try not to make too many overall team adjustments (still maintaining any of your game-to-game game plan decisions natch) until after each "quarter" and look for performance trends over the quarter. Keep stats somewhere off site so you can track quarterly changes...good luck.

Well, I pretty much followed your recipe.   Finished the regular season 17 - 9, won the CT, won a first round game and lost in the second round.

that's great
you ought to be able to build from that...
I'm glad someone had some success this season following my ideas...my own team missed the NT