Posted by FW_Kekionga on 6/4/2020 4:11:00 PM (view original):
If we're talking lower divisions I'll throw out my season 98 Iba Elmhurst D3 team. This is ported over from the Best RPI Ever thread. If I remember right we would have been the 2nd highest rated team in D2 by one point overall as well as being highest rated in D3. Haven't had a team that good since, wish I had taken a screencap of the ratings.

Quote post by oldave on 1/5/2018 11:33:00 AM:
Elmhurst - Iba A+ FW_Kekionga CCIW 34-0 .6659 - 1 .7492

Elmhurst is playing Elmira (shaf5576 ) in D3 title game tonight in iba season 0098

Elmhurst is 4 point favorite

Elmurst beat Elmira 73-58 at Elmhurst in season opener



FWK has been a successful coach in 53 seasons but is still seeking his first NC ring.

Elmurst has 7 seniors (one is SR5) 4 juniors and one soph.
Elmhurst has 717 ovr AVG.
Elmhurst has zero players from illinois
4 are from Puerto Rico
2 from Hawaii
3 from Europe
1 South Dakota
1 Kentucky
1 Indiana

Elmhurst, Season 98, IBA DIII

A+

FW_Kekionga

CCIW

35-0

.6713 - 1

.7532

For some reason I'll ALWAYS remember that team. And I don't play D3 and didn't then Haha. I just remember seeing it and thinking.... what the? How did that happen?!

And even crazier, of all D2 worlds, Iba seems to be kicking my butt the most (especially rolls, but I'm not starting on that one here! Errrrrrr). So to accomplish what you did with a tough D2 over top of you...... bravo

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Posted by topdogggbm on 6/1/2020 4:20:00 AM (view original):
I saw some humble sharings in the profile thread. So I figured I'd share one here. I think this team had an argument for best D2 team ever. At the time I was just getting my feet wet (it was my 2nd ever title) and i didn't realize what i had. But although "overall rating" doesn't tell the whole story, i had 5 of the top 22 players in the country. And the ratings were worthy. And we finished with the 2nd highest rpi. I was proud because I saw other Coaches Corners mentioning it was the best team they had saw at the time. I know my imgur doesn't show ALL ratings. But it's all I had saved. I think I have 1 random screenshot of extended ratings somewhere. But it would take me forever to find. We started that season 700 overall as a D2 team.

https://imgur.com/a/oZdm0tJ

living in the good ol days! I'll never top that.

that was a hell of a team. I like the 27-0 road record on top of the 35-0 overall record.

It really was. And not having any extended pics of the ball skills and scoring categories are leaving out the real strength of the team. I know I have one I'll just have to dig really hard to find one. But that team was in the best D2 conference in Smith, based off history and dynasty rankings. The coaches have a combined 80-100 titles there at that time. Myself, arfy, snewell, devilowl, just to name a few, but all 12 were human controlled I think. Maybe one sim.

The OP has higher ATH/DEF sure (and he's a top notch coach too. Shout out to my friend vip!), but I haven't seen a team out that I feel was better than this one as a "team". I know exhibition isn't important, but we beat D1 #12 and #23 by 20+ points each that season in the exhibition games. Of course it was just preseason rankings, I don't remember how those two teams ended up. I'm one that doesn't believe ATH/DEF is "everything" anymore. I've had a D2 team with 77/77 ATH/DEF and still believe this Post roster would've easily beat them too.

I'll dig for a few days and see if I can find a full team screenshot. Without it, it don't do justice for that team.

I've had a DII team with 75 ATH / 85 DE.

We got 2nd rounded by a Sim coached human team that of course had their centers take threes and of course all went 1-1 or 1-2.

7.0.3

Ouch! Yea the combo of 75/85 might be the highest I've seen. Especially the DEF. It's really hard to get 85 DEF as a team at D2. It takes getting Fresh with high starting defense.

I've started to believe that with defense there is a level of "overkill" (as in, how much better is an 85 team gonna be defensively than a 80 team really?) But that team shouldn't have been a 2nd team surely

I wasn't even recruiting crazy Ath/De.

There was a guy on that team who was drafted and another guy with 93 ath/reb and 100 de/lp.

recruiting for growth

that is a really good team but they don't press and i guess i struggle to believe they are even competitive when it comes to best ever on an odds to win a title measure. i'm not even including superclasses in that, but emy's point is valid. their defense is really good but the rebounding seems not super awesome which combined with not pressing means in terms of the possession battle, they are significantly behind a pretty good number of teams. the off/def looks really good but the best lower division teams ever both dominated the possession battle and were beastly on the fg%/3pt% battle.

i'll also note that some of those old school elite teams which were pushing the 80% to win the title mark... they were doing it in worlds that were substantially fuller and more competitive than today.