Quote: Originally posted by uglyskunk3 on 2/27/2010

George Washington vs. Towson , 1984

0 assists!

IWIN!

Obviously whatever engine they were using was broken.

so VD has coach (at least) 14,492 HD games. And in one of those games his team amassed 0 assists.

crazy, but within the realm of possibility

No offense, but you've coached 358 seasons and this is the first time you've seen this. So once in probably 8000 games it's happened. That's .000125% of the time. There are definitely things that need to be addressed, but I don't understand the theory behind posting every time something odd happens. Twice this season D1 schools have had one assist. It's not hard to believe that a team could be held to none. If a team had 19 would you be astounded if in another game they had 20?

Quote: Originally Posted By giantfan62 on 2/27/2010No offense, but you've coached 358 seasons and this is the first time you've seen this. So once in probably 8000 games it's happened. That's .000125% of the time. There are definitely things that need to be addressed, but I don't understand the theory behind posting every time something odd happens. Twice this season D1 schools have had one assist. It's not hard to believe that a team could be held to none. If a team had 19 would you be astounded if in another game they had 20

yes, when odd things happen we should all just ignore them and assume everything is working as expected. dont mention them, dont seek others input or validation, just drink the wis kool-aid that randomness explains everything.

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Here's what you should do:
Find the number of D1 games this season where a team only made 14 FGs. Find the average and standard deviation of assists. Calculate a z-score to see what the probability of getting 0 is. See if that makes it more reasonable.

No one doubts that the current engine is "broken." Everyone is glad a new one is on its way.

I've been making note of it during the testing in the test world, that the A/T ratio is very messed up in the game. Too many TO's against presses generally and not enough assists period.

You can have a 99/99/99/99 PG and give him varying distro and you STILL won't even get a 2:1 ratio.

So FAR in the testing phase I see no changes to the problem.

It looks like there were only 7 FGs that weren't a tip in or were the result of a steal (and of those 7 a couple of times a player drove and scored). I think this is more the result of what slowdown does to the engine creating very low scores and statistical anomalies.

I agree A/TO is broken.