if your total distro is 100, you MUST adjust other guys in order to kick up one or two players distro

if your total distro is 50 or 60 or 70, you CAN adjust other guys - but you have the option to easily adjust up one or two guys and not adjust others

There are an awful lot of ways to do it, you find what works well for you. One of my current teams has:

5- primary scorer
3- secondary scorer
3- primary bench scorer
2-bench
2-starter
2- bench
1-starter
1-starter
1-bench
0
0

So my starters are:
5-3-2-1-1
My Bench is:
3-2-2-1-0-0

Posted by Trentonjoe on 2/3/2020 10:52:00 AM (view original):
There are an awful lot of ways to do it, you find what works well for you. One of my current teams has:

5- primary scorer
3- secondary scorer
3- primary bench scorer
2-bench
2-starter
2- bench
1-starter
1-starter
1-bench
0
0

So my starters are:
5-3-2-1-1
My Bench is:
3-2-2-1-0-0

Agreed. There's a zillion ways to run distro. It's not a matter of right or wrong. Using the entire 100 is not "better" than using 1 to 5. And vice versa.

It's about finding a style that works for you. And when you make adjustments, you're comfortable with how they change the outcome. If you're a coach that isn't comfortable with what you've been doing, try another style. Don't be stubborn. It may be the difference that gets you over the hump.

I remember discussing distro with 0nly, and other elite coaches. And I got to talking with a certain other elite coach about his distro.... here I was losing sleep over whether to give my 7th man a 5 or a 6. And this coach gives two scorers 20, another scorer 10 and that's it. Never changed it and dominated that season!

Distro also needs to be a good match for your personnel. I don't feel it's ideal to use the same distro for every roster you have. Play to your strengths

In a nut shell, I want my best scorers to take as many shots as is reasonable. I don’t want the sim to have to make a hard decision. The dude with 90 perimeter chucks it up, the freshman with a D IQ doesn’t....

I’ve always used the following formula

100-90 PER/ LP - 20%
80-89 - 15%
70-79 - 12%
60-69 - 7%
50-59 - 3%
below 50 - 1%

then I tweak my higher guys based on IQ to give more or less distribution and give me a total of 100.

The absolute most I will give a guy would be 30% (May go up to 35% if he’s far superior than the rest of your team). Any more and you are susceptible to consistent double teams.

As others have said, there's no right or even "best" answer.

One thing to keep in mind is that in-game, distribution is always going to be based on who you have on the floor at any given time. So if a players minutes might vary from game to game due to foul trouble or the tempo that your opponent is using, that can throw your 100 scale distribution, or # of target shots, or whatever you are trying to do with distribution, off.

Like some others in this thread, my total team distribution is going to vary. Usually somewhere between mid to high 40's (if I have a young or less offensively talented team) to mid to high 60's if they're older and more developed and talented. And I may adjust certain players distributions from game to game based on position match-ups and the kind of defense my opponent plays.

I usually settle into 10-8-7 for the top 3 scorers in the starting lineup, and 8-7-5 for the top 3 on the bench as default. The rest get 0-3 depending on IQ. Some small adjustments based on matchups and growth.

One way I start the season sometimes, if I really don’t know what I’ve got: I add up the LP and Perimeter, and divide by 10; then adjust a little based on IQ. This gets me much closer to 100 (sometimes over), and I always slide toward the system at the top by conference play.

I am happy to have launched such a lively discussion, lol.

I ended up going with a "start your best player at 15 and stairstep it backwards from there" sort of plan.

That's the worst way to do it!!!!


I kid, i kid....

I believe that player performance deteriorates when allocated more than some percentage of distro.

My understanding is that distro actually operates - as I think someone noted - for the five guys on the floor at a given time.

SO, if your starters all set at 10....10-10-10-10-10

BUT at some point in the game three of your starters are out and the guys on the floor look more like 10-1-5-10-4 then each of the guys who show 10 as their number will be allocated 33% of the distro.

That doesnt determine what one should do, but folks should keep in mind that distro is applied in the moment and not as an aggregate calculation over the game

Posted by Trentonjoe on 2/4/2020 10:55:00 AM (view original):
That's the worst way to do it!!!!


I kid, i kid....

Lol

Posted by metsmax on 2/4/2020 12:01:00 PM (view original):
I believe that player performance deteriorates when allocated more than some percentage of distro.

My understanding is that distro actually operates - as I think someone noted - for the five guys on the floor at a given time.

SO, if your starters all set at 10....10-10-10-10-10

BUT at some point in the game three of your starters are out and the guys on the floor look more like 10-1-5-10-4 then each of the guys who show 10 as their number will be allocated 33% of the distro.

That doesnt determine what one should do, but folks should keep in mind that distro is applied in the moment and not as an aggregate calculation over the game

Agreed to this. Also, on a team last year I had a PG with +2 3PT frequency with 15 distro and a C with 25 distro at -2 3PT frequency and they shot equal amounts. Positioning and 3PT frequency and other factors play into how many shots people shoot. If your team is constantly getting played negative, your one 3PT shooter will shoot more. Stuff like that play into it.

Posted by A_B_G on 2/4/2020 10:16:00 AM (view original):
I am happy to have launched such a lively discussion, lol.

I ended up going with a "start your best player at 15 and stairstep it backwards from there" sort of plan.

That's my style for the most part! Nice choice!

Posted by Sportsbulls on 2/4/2020 2:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by metsmax on 2/4/2020 12:01:00 PM (view original):
I believe that player performance deteriorates when allocated more than some percentage of distro.

My understanding is that distro actually operates - as I think someone noted - for the five guys on the floor at a given time.

SO, if your starters all set at 10....10-10-10-10-10

BUT at some point in the game three of your starters are out and the guys on the floor look more like 10-1-5-10-4 then each of the guys who show 10 as their number will be allocated 33% of the distro.

That doesnt determine what one should do, but folks should keep in mind that distro is applied in the moment and not as an aggregate calculation over the game

Agreed to this. Also, on a team last year I had a PG with +2 3PT frequency with 15 distro and a C with 25 distro at -2 3PT frequency and they shot equal amounts. Positioning and 3PT frequency and other factors play into how many shots people shoot. If your team is constantly getting played negative, your one 3PT shooter will shoot more. Stuff like that play into it.

I'm thinking this is classified under the "the PG touches the ball on every possession. So his distro is sometimes is wacky" theory.

I'm not sure the 3pt frequency is affected very much by the defense played against you. Unless they are set at 0 (I think). If they are at 0 I think the defense positioning can alter how many 3s are taken. But if a player is set at +2, he's forcing 3s as much as possible, no matter what. At least that's how I see it game thru my eyes.

The numbers you used above, 25 C and 15 PG.... you would know much more than I would, it wasn't my team. But it could've been impacted by WHO was subbed in. For instance, if those were your two highest distros, when the game began, the C took most of the shots. But if he was first to sub out, then your distro could've became 15-3-3-0-0 in favor of the PG and now HE took all the shots. (The "-3-3-0-0" was an example of other distros on his team. I do not know what they actually were).

It's things like this why distro can confuse some coaches