I'm going to start 2 new teams (for a total of 7, one in each of the 1 a day worlds) - I've already signed up, but would like to experiment with a few of them (build 12 guard teams, build teams where everyone is 90+ stamina, build teams focused on FT shooting as the predominant skill, build teams for a certain specific style of play) .

I've won titles with Motion/Man teams and a few FCP teams - nothing terribly unique about the team builds though. What are some ideas that I could experiment with?

I graduated college awhile ago. My experimenting days are over

Posted by Benis on 3/28/2020 11:34:00 AM (view original):
I graduated college awhile ago. My experimenting days are over

never too late to start again, Benis. Why have all of your fun when you're young?

Best ath/de/sp/reb you can find at the 3/4/5. Best ath/de/sp/LP at the 1/2/3. Kind of I gnore SB/PER/BH/PA. LP in bigs doesn’t hurt but landing guys with ath/de/reb/LP is extremely hard.

I think an all SG would be fun ...

I'm taking over a WVU team in Naismith - I'm thinking 12 guys that can all hit 3's with a lot of speed (regardless of position) and a combo FCP/Zone defense
with fastbreak - I feel like that's kind of similar to a lot of real life WVU teams in the last 15 or so years

Before their coach left Drury in Phelan did this with a team of every player having PER. I'd be interested in a lot of the experiments you mentioned. I think you could build a better all PER team than he did. I'd be super interested in a 90+ team average ST at D2 team. Keep everyone posted in this forum.

I've always wanted to see an all ST team with weak ratings elsewhere intentionally. Just ****** players with high ST.

Or vice versa..... a team of elite players with intentional low ST. I think this can be done fairly easily too. There are enough players that are great that have horrible ST. Also for those who don't know about THIS glitch, any player that starts with red ST, never gains any and consistently loses ST in the off season. So if you could find a good player with 72 red ST, he'd possibly get down in the high 50s Sr season.

Another idea which is by FAR the most intriguing to me, is an all-turtle team. Run a C with single digit speed (which is normal in some cases), a PF in the teens (that's really slow there), a SF in the 30s in 40s, and your guards could be like 80 ath 60 spd players with ball skills. The reason I'm intrigued by this, is because I feel SPD is one of the most important ratings in all of HD, but the most difficult to understand where it hurts you in the box scores without it. I would assume it affects the overall defense of your team, steals, defensive shooting percentages. And on offense, it would obliterate your shooting percentages. But I've never done it to find out.

(These rating estimates are for D2)

At D3, I would like to run a team where no one has a score over 70, in anything.

Posted by topdogggbm on 3/28/2020 4:32:00 PM (view original):
I've always wanted to see an all ST team with weak ratings elsewhere intentionally. Just ****** players with high ST.

Or vice versa..... a team of elite players with intentional low ST. I think this can be done fairly easily too. There are enough players that are great that have horrible ST. Also for those who don't know about THIS glitch, any player that starts with red ST, never gains any and consistently loses ST in the off season. So if you could find a good player with 72 red ST, he'd possibly get down in the high 50s Sr season.

Another idea which is by FAR the most intriguing to me, is an all-turtle team. Run a C with single digit speed (which is normal in some cases), a PF in the teens (that's really slow there), a SF in the 30s in 40s, and your guards could be like 80 ath 60 spd players with ball skills. The reason I'm intrigued by this, is because I feel SPD is one of the most important ratings in all of HD, but the most difficult to understand where it hurts you in the box scores without it. I would assume it affects the overall defense of your team, steals, defensive shooting percentages. And on offense, it would obliterate your shooting percentages. But I've never done it to find out.

(These rating estimates are for D2)

Here’s an example of what speed can do (I've been talking about this team a lot on the forums, apologize!):

My Lincoln team has a 64 team defense average (not top 25 for Phelan D2) and we lead the country in TOs because we have elite guard speed.

I think speed and TOs correlate a ton, especially in press.

There's this guy in jhines in Wooden who is like playing to win (and is damn good at it in the MW) but his thing is carrying 4/5 90+ shooters at all times and jacking threes from the 1/2/3. He recruits legitemate normal big men, but usually shoots 30-40 threes per game. He made a title game in season 108 at 34-0 shooting 30 threes per game with a backcourt of 2.8 3PA per game, 6.6 3PA per game, 5.4 3PA per game, 3.9 3PA per game, 6.1 3PA per game and even a 2 3PA per game and 2.9 3PA per game in the frontcourt. You see a lot of teams at all levels get up to around 30 because some players are taking like 12 per game, but jhines consistently builds teams with 4-5 elite shooters and 2-3 more viable shooters, including guys in the frontcourt (which is rare in HD). Its pretty cool and different from what one usually sees in this game. They are young and having a down year this year but they still have 4 guys with per over 88 and are happily taking 31 threes per game.

Posted by Sportsbulls on 3/28/2020 6:57:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 3/28/2020 4:32:00 PM (view original):
I've always wanted to see an all ST team with weak ratings elsewhere intentionally. Just ****** players with high ST.

Or vice versa..... a team of elite players with intentional low ST. I think this can be done fairly easily too. There are enough players that are great that have horrible ST. Also for those who don't know about THIS glitch, any player that starts with red ST, never gains any and consistently loses ST in the off season. So if you could find a good player with 72 red ST, he'd possibly get down in the high 50s Sr season.

Another idea which is by FAR the most intriguing to me, is an all-turtle team. Run a C with single digit speed (which is normal in some cases), a PF in the teens (that's really slow there), a SF in the 30s in 40s, and your guards could be like 80 ath 60 spd players with ball skills. The reason I'm intrigued by this, is because I feel SPD is one of the most important ratings in all of HD, but the most difficult to understand where it hurts you in the box scores without it. I would assume it affects the overall defense of your team, steals, defensive shooting percentages. And on offense, it would obliterate your shooting percentages. But I've never done it to find out.

(These rating estimates are for D2)

Here’s an example of what speed can do (I've been talking about this team a lot on the forums, apologize!):

My Lincoln team has a 64 team defense average (not top 25 for Phelan D2) and we lead the country in TOs because we have elite guard speed.

I think speed and TOs correlate a ton, especially in press.

Speed certainly correlated to TOs in the press. I would argue it is as important defensively as ATH.

cub is saying it’s more important in offense than people think; particularly when you have a massive advantage which is easier to do in the post positions. I think he is right.

BillyG used to argue something similar, I think his point was something like speed in posts turns the average scorers into elite scorers. The 100/100 ath lp guy in D1 is only average but that guy with 60 speed ( as opposed to 30) is way more efficient.

Posted by Trentonjoe on 3/28/2020 8:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Sportsbulls on 3/28/2020 6:57:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 3/28/2020 4:32:00 PM (view original):
I've always wanted to see an all ST team with weak ratings elsewhere intentionally. Just ****** players with high ST.

Or vice versa..... a team of elite players with intentional low ST. I think this can be done fairly easily too. There are enough players that are great that have horrible ST. Also for those who don't know about THIS glitch, any player that starts with red ST, never gains any and consistently loses ST in the off season. So if you could find a good player with 72 red ST, he'd possibly get down in the high 50s Sr season.

Another idea which is by FAR the most intriguing to me, is an all-turtle team. Run a C with single digit speed (which is normal in some cases), a PF in the teens (that's really slow there), a SF in the 30s in 40s, and your guards could be like 80 ath 60 spd players with ball skills. The reason I'm intrigued by this, is because I feel SPD is one of the most important ratings in all of HD, but the most difficult to understand where it hurts you in the box scores without it. I would assume it affects the overall defense of your team, steals, defensive shooting percentages. And on offense, it would obliterate your shooting percentages. But I've never done it to find out.

(These rating estimates are for D2)

Here’s an example of what speed can do (I've been talking about this team a lot on the forums, apologize!):

My Lincoln team has a 64 team defense average (not top 25 for Phelan D2) and we lead the country in TOs because we have elite guard speed.

I think speed and TOs correlate a ton, especially in press.

Speed certainly correlated to TOs in the press. I would argue it is as important defensively as ATH.

cub is saying it’s more important in offense than people think; particularly when you have a massive advantage which is easier to do in the post positions. I think he is right.

BillyG used to argue something similar, I think his point was something like speed in posts turns the average scorers into elite scorers. The 100/100 ath lp guy in D1 is only average but that guy with 60 speed ( as opposed to 30) is way more efficient.

Yeah I 100% agree with that. It's not like a 100 ath/ 75 lp 4 with 65 speed will suddenly be a stud, but if you have that 90+ LP the 65 speed is devstating.

I understand what speed does. I just meant I'd like to see a team with horrible speed. And see what kinda numbers that team can produce. It would have to be intentionally bad speed ratings

Posted by topdogggbm on 3/28/2020 10:42:00 PM (view original):
I understand what speed does. I just meant I'd like to see a team with horrible speed. And see what kinda numbers that team can produce. It would have to be intentionally bad speed ratings

At D2, you could be successful because you can get high enough rating in other places (mainly ath). At D1 you can’t because everyone else has ratings as well.