Sometimes it just doesn't make any sense. Your PG had a terrible game and considering who was guarding him that should not have happened. The thing I noticed right away is that you played slowdown. I rarely go slow against a SIM. That being said, as poorly as you shot the ball I don't know if playing faster would have helped.

Very unlucky. I would say 90% chance you win that game, but it's not like 99% or anything. If you go normal you're more like 92-93%.

Your team is good, not great. No real PG is your biggest weakness. Having 1 passer would be nice. You have Wilson but he's really terribly defensively so I wouldn't start him. Your talent is good but not through the roof. I like Barnes Riddle and McDermott. Scales is fine. You should be fringe top25.

Mostly agree with cub. You had a really bad sim. I don't think your tempo choice had any real affect on this outcome, you should have been fine at any tempo, and should have had roughly the same advantage - and on the flip side, when you get a bad luck day, that's just what you get. I would have chosen normal because there was no compelling reason to try to play tall against a weak sim, but I don't think it moved the needle here. If anything, your distribution may have been a bit top heavy, perhaps try to get a 3rd scorer into your distribution (for starters and bench), with preference toward perimeter scoring for flex. You didn't get many 3s off, and I'm not sure if that was your intention or just a function of the bad luck day, but with flex, you definitely want more than 8 3FG attempts. I'd have wanted 12-15 with 41 FGA overall. But again, these bad luck days are goofy, the sim just pulls you in another direction sometimes, so if that's what happened, just curse the engine and move on. Don't want to overcorrect based off terrible luck.

Thanks for the feedback all.

It looks like I accidentally deleted the original post. Here is the game in question:https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/GameResults/BoxScore.aspx?gid=21817299&tab=boxscore

I'll just chalk it up to a bad sim and an upset on the road. It happens.