Quote: Originally posted by ryanderson on 5/26/2010ok so now a different issue with the new engine.. I had my SG set to 17 distro score 31 points (on 10-22 FG, 7-10 FT) in my 2nd exhibition game in Smith. I was playing against a full-court press, so as far as I know there was no huge mismatch that was exploited.

OK ... was 17 high or low compared to your other players

most others on the floor were 8-9 but I had 2 big men set above him at 22 and 18. I guess relative to other players he should be taking more shots, but 22 FGA compared to 4, 3, 8 and 4 FGA for my other 4 starters.
Just never expected him to take so many shots because last season in the old engine he had never attempted nearly as many shots with a 24 dist and never topped 30 pts

the Bates team also only had one non-freshman guard and he has a 23 DEF rating. Plus a SF with a 28 DEF playing guard.

I believe the new engine is supposed to look for and exploit matchups where it is relatively easy to get off a shot. If you have two players at 17 and one is matched up against a top defender and the other is practically unguarded, one should be able to get off more shots than the other. Your SG had huge advantages in the matchups.

Yeah I had something kind of similar happen. My PG took a ton of shots, all 2 pointers, when matched against an inferior defender.

Not really complaining, he was 12-16 from the floor and just abused a younger, slower, less athletic defender.

I think there were FAR too many games where teams were receiving single digit FT attempts in the old engine (especially if you ran slowdown); perhaps they've swung back a little too far the other way, but not that much.

The biggest difference I've noticed in the 5 games run in Allen is the number of fouls in the act of shooting. Those have increased quite a bit (may be due to my players having high ATH though).

In my first of the do-over exhibitions, the teams combined for 56 fouls (31-25); in the second, 42 (32-10). The overall totals are well above average, and the disparity in the second is jarring. The team with 32 fouls (home team) ran a half-court press / man-to-man against a triangle, and the team with 10 ran a full-court press against a flex; the team with 32 fouls was a lot slower.

Adding to the issues with three-pointers, I have guys set to +2 shooting far fewer threes than I would expect, i.e. in game 1: 9 attempts out of 21 (which also seemed like a lot of attemps overall for a guy at 25 distro); 4 of 11; and 3 of 8. (Those guys were also set to 25 dirstro and combined for less attempts than the first guy.) I pretty much want those guys shooting threes whenever possible. I know that won't be 100%, but it should be well over 50%.

Quote: Originally Posted By courtmagic on 5/26/2010Something still seems to be off. I just gave my line-by-line for Game 1 - World Allen a look over and I still have guys that are set at (-2 3pt shot) taking them.

Your team took 5 3-pointers in the game. All 5 were with under a minute and down by 6 or more. The 5 shots were taken by your two guards and your PF playing SF. Even if the settings were at -2, with that situation, taking 3's is the correct thing.

Good enough. I wasn't complaining like some, just looking for an explanation so I can better understand the new system, thanks.

I still think 3Pt shooting in this engine is messed up. Look at this player through 7 games. ****** PER, average speed, and average ATH and he is lighting it up. He's shooting 46% for the year from the arc.

http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx?
tid=0&pid=1480284

I've spotted several players like this incuding a center with a PER of 1 whos made more 3pters this season than his entire previous career.

This sim is pretty Jacked up but we will adapt maybe?

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Quote: Originally posted by colonels19 on 5/26/2010
I don't know about pouty, but the almighty HD guru dalter told me that one game is "literally meaningless" thus I must believe him...the game is operating perfectly...be gone.

Your issue seems to be that you want to be a dick ... nothing more, nothing less.



I'm just agreeing with what the know-it-alls of HD believe to be true.

I talked to Dalter. He believes that you should never post in the forums again.

Quote: Originally posted by reinsel on 5/26/2010I agree with Iguana, I think one thing does seem to be a trend, is that fouls are up for:Pressing Teams and All teams with B and C level defensive IQs.

I am going to agree with reinsel's observation. I have a young team with nine B-C IQs. Playing man-to-man, I am averaging almost 20 fouls per game with a high of 31.

My FTA rate (FTA / FGA) is currently .61. In real-life division 1 last year the highest was .529

FTAs are mainly up for all of my guards. My starting SG will surpass his 32 game FTA total in probably 6 games this season, getting roughly the same minutes and distro as last season. Two of my backup guards are getting .85 FTA/FGA, so almost 1 free throw attempt for every FGA. That's nuts.

THe last year sim world totals are irrelevant to the discussion, it doesn't need to match last year. DO you have the real life division three highest FTA/FGA after five games rather than the whole season, on hand?

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