Well, I was going to do the best all-time lineup (from my own teams) exercise, but then I accidentally brushed the mousepad with two fingers, my browser took me back, and the whole post was erased. So here's some musings about what I'd do.
It makes for some tough choices, and depends to some degree on what kind of offense you're planning to run. If I'm going flex, I can sacrifice a bit of rebounding from the three and just gun everyone down from the outside, just using Maryville alumni. I can roll three guards that average 60 ATH, 80 SPD, 65 DEF, 99 PER, 65 BH, and 80 P, using
Anthony Hopper, Kyle Ryan (before archived ratings, but he was 70+ in ATH and SPD and 99 in PER), and Scott Hendricks. But even in a flex, I probably wouldn't do that, because there's always Alan Mericle (Maryville, pre-archives), who finished at roughly 80 ATH, 80 SPD, 40 REB, 90 DEF, 20 LP, 40 PER, 75 BH, 75 P, B- FT. It's hard to leave Mericle off an all-time D3 team, because he can be a lockdown defender at any guard position and can pour in the points, even if he can't shoot from the outside. A Hopper/Hendricks/Mericle backcourt would be unbelievable in a fastbreak offense. Although in a fastbreak offense, it might be tempting to replace Hopper with Jack Isabel (Dallas, pre-archives), who topped 60 ATH, 80 SPD, 70 DEF, 75 BH, 70 P, and had that fastbreak trifecta of 35 LP, A- FT, and 95 ST that would send him to the line trip after trip after trip.
And that entire discussion is totally ignoring
Allen Hick, who has already been mentioned in this thread as an all-timer at SF. It's hard to leave him off, but do you take him over Mericle? I think I go Mericle.
I do think I have an easier time inside. I haven't had many dominant post players, so I'd probably go with Theo Erving (Austin, pre-archives), who topped 60 in ATH, SPD, SB, LP, and PER, topped 70 in DEF and REB, topped 30 in BH and P, and had B- FT and 97 stamina as my power forward. At center, I'd take
Nathaniel Crowley from Dallas. I did have some pretty good bigs on my Greensboro teams in Wooden, but I don't think any of them would've beaten out Erving or Crowley.
So yeah, there's six backcourt players and two forwards. I think Hendricks, Mericle, Erving, and Crowley are four starters, and the fifth is a choice between Hopper (ideal as perimeter-oriented PG), Isabel (ideal as slashing PG), or Hick (who would play SF, move Mericle to SG, and move Hendricks to PG). It's a tough exercise. And where did all the players like this go? I still have a couple D3 teams, yet these are all from my first couple years at WIS.
3/24/2016 4:20 PM (edited)