Oh -- and billyg, this player is a sample size of one (but a four year career almost exclusively as a starter) but I also haven't played in the new sim with another small forward just yet in the Allen world.

 with a 50 rebound rating  out of a 2/3 zone I wouldn't consider that to be a real bad number that's basically 5.5rebs over 40mins and thats not real bad for a SF after all if he has a game that he gets 1 or 2 boards at a sf position he isn't going to come back and pull down 10-12 in a game to pull the avg back up. I would be happy with those numbers but that could be why I'm a mediocre coach also. :)

The first guy I posted is all new-engine.  The 2nd was either all old engine or perhaps 1 season of new engine.  Probably all old.

As somebody who has basically made a career in D3 recruiting big guys with terrible DE ratings, I am almost positive that DE has nothing to do with rebounding.

I've had a number of guys average 8+ RB/game with single digit DE ratings.

I've never studied numbers to confirm this, but I'd be shocked if DE correlates to rebounding. 

kujay, I think the real reason is the HD gods are punishing you for poaching Johnson from me 4 seasons ago.  The sisters at AMC put a hex on him when he signed with you.

Posted by kujayhawk on 1/20/2011 5:02:00 PM (view original):
And I get the bigger picture that rebounding is not working as it should.

But am I crazy in thinking that in a WIS 2-3 zone that the SF and PF should be interchangable?  I know in real life it would make a difference but if it does make a difference in the sim, I have to admit to ignorance in understanding why.

One thing that's always stunned me about HD is that the position a player is playing does greatly impact his stats. Something is clearly quite hard-wired into the engine, which sucks.

Posted by kujayhawk on 1/20/2011 4:58:00 PM (view original):

Thanks for the input guys.

I hadn't heard anything regarding defense impacting rebounds so I didn't post it.  I'm also thinking it doesn't, although if somebody has a recent support ticket that would indicate it does, I'd love to see it posted.

For those of you that posted examples, any chance you'd be willing to confirm they played in the new engine.  I'm guessing that zbrent's did but I don't know about dahsdebater's examples.  If it is the old engine, I think it's apples to oranges.  I used to take good advantage of SF rebounding in the old engine but it doesn't seem to work now.

He was new engine.