Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 2/17/2010
Of course not. What you're saying is common sense, there's literally no chance I'd be able to get opinions from 50% of HD users.

But what I am doing is getting opinions from the cross section of users who know HD the best and care about it the most, so to me that is worthwhile. Perfect? Of course not. Still useful? Absolutely.

Quote: Originally Posted By zhawks on 2/17/2010mmt I agree with you that it isn't the whole community but that doesn't mean that there are not good ideas there

Quote: Originally Posted By mmt0315 on 2/17/2010
1) Mentoring program - Its simply a waste of their time trying to set something like this up and HD can use their time in more efficient manner, on things more important like the Simengine. I agree that it doesn't need to be very formal or take a lot of seble's time. I'd like to see something very similar to the HBD mentoring thread...I think that having a pinned list of coaches who are open to sitemails and a few general guidelines (don't just sitemail and ask "So how do I win at this?") would be great.

4) I have no problem at all with EE. If a team is going to consistantly recruit guys whose evals all say "He has a chance to leave after a year or two" and that same team happens to lose 3-4 players, I'm fine with that, and Ive spoken to various coaches who are as well. The ones complaining are primarily those losing the players. My biggest beef with EE is that it tends to be very random on who leaves and who doesn't. I think that there should only be 20-25 kids every season whose evals give the "Will likely leave early" message, but that these 20-25 players should absolutely never see their Senior season. (Possible exception if injuries become a larger part of the game and we see players suffer season ending injuries)The current impacts can determine whether they play 1, 2 or 3 seasons.

Quote: Originally Posted By mmt0315 on 2/17/2010

1) Mentoring program - Its simply a waste of their time trying to set something like this up and HD can use their time in more efficient manner, on things more important like the Simengine. The problem of a ghost town is not as complicated as the 20 page threads Ive seen. They are worried about their bottom line. Fine, makes sense. 1) Eliminate FREEHD; 2) Put Rewards points back; 3) Get rid of the gift cards Seble was talking about.

As Mlat showed in his research almost no coaches are playing for free under the old rewards points system (I think it was 2 per 10 seasons or something). This will get the vets back to their old DIII dynasties which in turn is good for the game.

Perhaps I'm underestimating, but I just don't see this as taking alot of time and resources for WIS. The onus would mostly be on the coaches. Agreed on the rest.

2) Impact of Def rating. I think it works the ways its intended. Some people want it to be the only rating reflective of how an individual player will defend. It was never intended to work that way, and I frankly dont see a problem with it being tied to other factors. (SP/ATH/IQ).

Personally, I disagree with this. I don't view def rating in a bubble, nor do I think it should be viewed that way. That said, having a guy with good sp/ath and really low def is like alot of real life players who are talented but don't have the will or desire to play defense ... and those guys are defensive liabilities in real life.

3) Sim Engine in general. I personally dont see a problem with it now that the post potential players have cycled through. Sure its easy to point to anomolies in the simulation, which is normal considering how many games are simmed daily you can probably find several a day. But in general it gets it right. What does need to happen and Ive been complaining about this for over a year is more player variations - which it seems is being done in the new update.

I think you're in a very small minority on this one.

4) I have no problem at all with EE. If a team is going to consistantly recruit guys whose evals all say "He has a chance to leave after a year or two" and that same team happens to lose 3-4 players, I'm fine with that, and Ive spoken to various coaches who are as well. The ones complaining are primarily those losing the players.

Those evals are meaningless, and you know it. They say that for every single 4/5 star player. Seble has openly admitted that the EE process can be improved upon. FWIW, I currently don't have any BCS teams and want to see things improved.

5) I dont think FT shooting should improve more than a maximum of a full letter grade. Its unrealistic to think an F FT shooter can suddently become a C+, its just not how FT shooting works.

Yes, sometimes it does. Not all the time, and not like before (when anyone could become an A/A+ ft shooter), but some guys do make big leaps in ft shooting.

6) Prestige - I dont agree with most of whats there on this subject. IMO (as Ive stated in various threads) Prestige needs to be broken into two. Baseline prestige used for hirings (this goes to supply and demand). Current prestige used for everything else. Baseline should never under and circumstances change.

Interesting, and don't necessarily disagree. I think leaning more heavily on baseline prestige for hirings (maybe 75% baseline and 25% current, or something like that) would be a great change, actually. (I'm going to add it to the thread ... thanks for participating!) The bigger issue though is how current prestige is determined.

7) I agree with everything he has there regarding recruiting and in game strategy.

Quoted for posterity.

In general I'm not saying Im right or that all those suggestions are nec. bad. Im just saying that Im sure its not even close to a consensous and I hope WIS doesnt make changes based on the forums as it seems they did with potantial. At that time if you remember, you had about 10 coaches screaming at the top of their lungs for potential, WIS changes it and you remember the results. I didnt wanna really debate his points

Whoops, sorry. Lol.

as theyve been done at length in other threads. But just wanted to put it out there that he doesnt speak on behalf of the community. There are plenty of coaches that never comment in the forums and a ton of others that rarely visit them.

I agree they are not a consensus of all WIS coaches. That's virtually impossible, and really just stating the obvious. Again, they're meant to reflect the sentiments of a cross section of HD coaches that is very active and knows and cares about the game. And I definitely think there's significant value in that.

Quote: Originally posted by dalter on 2/17/2010But what I am doing is getting opinions from the cross section of users who know HD the best and care about it the most