This gets brought up a lot. There is nothing hidden, but there is some things that some coaches look at that others think are meaningless. Does it help the coaches? Who knows. I feel it helps me, but I guess I haven't had the most success either. The coaches that I know that look at the info all say the players over performed or at least met expectations whereas before it was random who would be a beast/bust.

Posted by jbob23 on 7/21/2010 8:24:00 AM (view original):
If your talking about the H.S. stats of a recruit they are useless except the free throw percentage. If your just talking about ratings then other things matter as well when it come to stats. For instance who you play against, how they gameplan and IQ's. All those things could lead one player to being a little better then another when you expect different.

Along with that I do believe there is some randomness to the engine so when nothing else can be explained sometimes it's just the randomness and nothing else.

of course there is randomness.  this is simulation.  random variables are what simulations use

Posted by mccabemi on 7/21/2010 10:01:00 PM (view original):
my  conspiracy theory is that the more time you spend on the site, and the more pages you view in a single day, the better your team will do.

i also have contemplated that theory. 

Posted by oldave on 7/22/2010 7:41:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mccabemi on 7/21/2010 10:01:00 PM (view original):
my  conspiracy theory is that the more time you spend on the site, and the more pages you view in a single day, the better your team will do.

i also have contemplated that theory. 

actually, so have i.