This is the first post i have done in 3 years, but I am getting more frustrated with some of the results I am seeing.

I thought my Northeastern team in Allen would be pretty good this year with all starters returning, yet I stumbled along with a 19-9 season. The frustration is with my SF Garrett who I thought would be a stud and had a horrible year. Why do seniors seem to regress so much in this game? I have yet to figure that out. Maybe that is for another post

Also, the losses in conference, especially the 2 to William and Mary. They shot 27-30 FT in the 2nd half alone in that win and then beat me in the conference semi-finals. I would think that my IQ's would keep my team from the number of forced shots that they took over doubleteams. Also, I have a speed advantage at 4 of 5 starting spots, center being the position with no advantage.



Maybe I am missing something, just wanted to get this off my chest. Any feedback is certainly welcome.

First of all, I think using the 3-2 as your base defense every game was a huge strategic mistake. No doubt there were teams where the 3-2 was the way to go, but there is equally little doubt that there were some teams that you should've played a 2-3 against.

Another strategic error (and one you repeated for next season) was scheduling sim teams. You are in a conference filled with sim teams, thereby guaranteeing yourself a bad SOS. You need to counteract that by scheduling a tougher non-con filled with human teams. They don't all have to be world beaters, but taking on any additional sims is a bad mistake. That's why you can win 19 games and still have an rpi that isn't PIT worthy.

(Now that I look, you've repeated that mistake for your entire tenure. A bunch of seasons w. 18-22 wins and rpi's that never got at an at-large bid, and often not even a PIT. That's just inexcusable.)

As for the sf, I agree that he underperformed this season, mostly from 3p. But he only took 49 3p's, so with that kind of sample size, if he'd hit just four more 3p's over the course of the season, his 3p percentage goes from 30 to 39% and all of the sudden looks a lot different. Overall I agree that he underachieved, but not horribly so.

(He also overachieved as a jr by shooting 51% from 3p. The sample size in HD just isn't big enough to produce reliable individual results from one season to the next. It's not a senior slump, per se, just coming up on the wrong side of the dice. Sometimes that happens as a soph, sometimes jr, sometimes sr. It just stands out a heck of a lot more when it happens during sr year.)

Smarter scheduling and gameplanning guarantees you a spot in the postseason.

thanks for the feedback. Just to let you know I do try and schedule human coaches and don't always get accepted. In fact I sent you a challenge either for this season or next season that was not accepted. As the season draws to a close I will pick out sim teams that are not disasters instead of letting the game choose my schedule.

Please don't take offense, I'm very selective about who I schedule. We all send challenges that don't get accepted sometimes. But if you made getting an all-human schedule a priority, it simply wouldn't be difficult. It's also effective to send a sitemail to a coach you'd like to schedule. But it's just not that hard.