Quote: Originally Posted By prezuiwf on 5/28/2010
I admit I'm not as experienced as many others around here, but my understanding is that in DIII, a guy with a 95 rating in anything is probably going to be very successful at that thing, even if his other ratings are bad. I actually had a guard with a 97 defensive rating when I took over my current team, and that was my best season of HD; in fact, the only guy to graduate after that season was the 97 defensive guy (who didn't even start, but I suspect shut down opposing guards when he came into the game), and lo and behold, my team did worse the next year.

Your team did "worse" the next year because you played a much easier schedule. You had a sim-built sked that first year and won 21 games w. an rpi in the 70's. The following year you clearly played a much harder schedule, going 13-15 but with an rpi of 113.

Also, it's very careful to "suspect" anything here, particularly with the old engine.

So I wouldn't be too deterred by his poor ATH and speed ratings. Would it be good if he had 80 in both? Sure, and in fact it would probably make him one of the best defensive DIII players ever. But with 95 defense, I suspect opponents will still have a lot of trouble with him, or at least you guys you match him up against won't score nearly as much as they should.

Sp and ath are just huge when it comes to defense. I can promise you that if you relied on guards and sf's with high def and really, really low sp and ath, you would be disappointed by the results.