Would the sim have knocked them down to normal or slowdown? Fatigue definitely hurt them in the second half but idk if a drop to normal tempo would have saved them - a lot of players were already in foul trouble (they had 22 first half fouls!). Slowdown I'd think would definitely increase their chances of holding onto that lead.

I doubt it personally. I think the swings are built into HD. And that's not a circumstance where auto adjust tempo is useful at its peak.

I use auto adjust a lot. But I feel it's more usefully designed for if running slow and behind, than it is for if you're ahead and want to coast. I have no data. It's just my opinion of comfort within how I've felt it works best.

I love the topic tho. Lots of good things to discuss here

maybe - it couldn't have hurt - not sure enough to swing that 7 point loss, but definitely feels like it would have helped.

'the swings are built into hd' - sort of. feedback exists - but it acts 'in real time' - meaning on each decision, it can be a factor. there is no game-level swing or whatever. this necessarily means that when feedback is pushing against you - the fewer possessions / actions for it to act on - the less it acts. in general (and in 95% or more of cases), if you have a decent lead in the 2nd half and feedback is pushing against you pretty hard, you want to be on slowdown. not saying we can just wave a wand and make that happen - but if we could - we'd definitely want to.

Posted by gillispie1 on 9/14/2020 11:55:00 AM (view original):
maybe - it couldn't have hurt - not sure enough to swing that 7 point loss, but definitely feels like it would have helped.

'the swings are built into hd' - sort of. feedback exists - but it acts 'in real time' - meaning on each decision, it can be a factor. there is no game-level swing or whatever. this necessarily means that when feedback is pushing against you - the fewer possessions / actions for it to act on - the less it acts. in general (and in 95% or more of cases), if you have a decent lead in the 2nd half and feedback is pushing against you pretty hard, you want to be on slowdown. not saying we can just wave a wand and make that happen - but if we could - we'd definitely want to.

Exactly what I said.... except without the Gilmagic Haha