I like when people try to uptempo me....

Well I'm going to put your theory to the test this season and see what uptempo can do. I really HATE turnovers but I would like to see if player stats will increase. It just seems to me that every coaching call has it's drawbacks turnovers being one of running utempo but I will see.

My Princeton team regularly averages 95 points per game.  Up tempo is awesome if you like gaudy stats and have the stamina to run it.

ok so what is the minimum stamina level to successfully run uptempo? I have a pretty nice bench but not sure about the stamina lvls.

i have an avg stamina of 72 btw.

I think it depends more on your opponents' stamina and depth.  If you have more sta and depth, uptempo should be an option.  Less, I don't think it should.

If you play 12 guys you want it 78 minimum.  If you play less, it should be higher.  I have found you start to see advantages when you have a 6 point advantage in stamina.

Thanks. I will see how this works.

Posted by ike1024 on 9/22/2011 9:13:00 PM (view original):
There's literally no way for you guys to back up what you are saying.  The only way to know would be to run millions of possessions with the exact same settings/ratings other than tempo.  

Same with you, but a few seasons ago I did run overall stats for every game involving end-of-season ranked human-coached teams against other top-50 RPI teams for Knight D2 and D3 and found that there were diminishingly small variances in per-possession outcomes between tempos.  Do the people that disagree with me have anything whatsoever to back up their assertion that tempo DOES impact per-possession results?  Or that's just how you want it to work so you're convinced that it must be?

The prerequisite to any of this is recruiting well, particularly in the backcourt with ballhandling. In my opinion/experience, FCP isn't like other defenses where you can overcome a weakness in recruiting by using a different strategy based on your own strength.

You can have an All-American level front court, and if the backcourt isn't above average also a good press team will tear you apart far more than you can take advantage inside.

So far so good going uptempo against FCP. My guys didnt have as many TO's as I thought they would but maybe the FCP I was playing against wasn't that strong. Overall my team is scoring more points going uptempo although I do notice slightly more to's from my pg's but not necessarily against the FCP. Would any of you run uptempo against a MTM? And a great MTM... guys with high speed, IQ and decent def ratings.

The conventional wisdom is you run up tempo when you have a more talented team.

I run uptempo when:

1. I have a STAMINA advantage
2. My opponents have a bad/short bench
3.  I have a significant IQ advantage (low IQ = more turnovers)

I agree it just seems people are quick to tell others to run uptempo against a pressing team but the people asking the questions are just going to run uptempo against the press and not pay attention to the depth of the press, the stamina guys they may play against going against the press. Yes the press tires quickly but not if the team running the press has a great rotation. I've seen coaches run an 11 man rotation with avg stamina 75-78 I'd say and going uptempo against these types of press teams may not be the best idea. Maybe I'm wrong but I actually ran uptempo against a guy running the press with a 9 man rotation and got murdered... I had at least 3 more stamina points on avg with a decent pg who had 4 to's .... I think going normal would have suited me. Then a lot of press teams run slow down tempos to conserve stamina too...

If your opponent is running 9 man with a fcp, then you absolutely should be going uptempo. If this isn't the situation to go uptempo, then what is?

I'm not saying it isn't the perfect situation for uptempo. My thinking was just like yours and I lost by 12 points. As far as my team is concerned it didn't work out. Maybe it was dumb luck. I don't really know. I know I lost the game that's all.