how high would you give in distribution to one player?  i have been giving a very high distribution to one guy - peterson - on my team. do i need to scale it back?  should i be letting him dominate my distribution or spread it around a bit more?

Name	Yr.	Pos.	A	SPD	REB	DE	BLK	LP	PE	BH	P	WE	ST	DU	FT	TOT
David Peterson	Sr.	PG	59	97	2	47	2	10	72	74	57	75	87	58	B	640
Johnny Thomas	Sr.	PG	77	73	1	64	3	24	18	55	71	39	83	55	D+	563
Richard Hill	So.	PG	43	79	1	33	2	1	54	50	34	48	87	69	B	501
Gary Bates	Jr.	SG	43	61	3	47	14	21	39	50	62	44	76	79	B-	539
John Smith	So.	SG	56	40	27	69	11	21	23	14	25	38	69	72	C	465
Anthony Farrell	Jr.	SF	57	29	44	36	26	80	49	13	19	51	68	77	C-	549
Robert Fowler	Jr.	SF	56	42	53	45	51	59	30	23	31	47	74	68	C-	579
Virgil Frisk	Fr.	SF	60	44	36	50	18	53	16	34	36	25	61	66	C+	499
Mitchel Lee	Fr.	SF	41	55	33	42	14	8	19	37	31	33	65	60	C-	438
Eric McConnell	Sr.	PF	41	38	48	49	62	68	34	18	1	54	68	53	C+	534
Keith Bernardini	Jr.	PF	36	39	63	45	34	64	14	7	8	71	76	55	C+	512
Richard Clark	Sr.	C	39	21	89	39	63	56	19	17	11	74	75	82	C-	585
Averages	-	-	51	52	33	47	25	39	32	33	32	50	74	66	C	534

Yr.	Pos	GP	GS	MIN	FG%	FG3%	FT%	OREB	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
D. Peterson	Sr.	PG	14	14	26.5	.418	.361	.777	0.6	1.9	2.6	3.6	1.4	0.0	2.4	26.8
J. Thomas	Sr.	PG	14	14	25.4	.477	.000	.660	0.4	1.6	5.1	2.1	0.8	0.0	1.8	5.5
R. Fowler	Jr.	SF	14	14	20.5	.489	.214	.673	1.6	4.2	1.4	1.7	0.9	0.4	2.4	9.4
R. Clark	Sr.	C	14	14	19.6	.429	.000	.750	2.3	8.0	0.4	0.8	0.6	0.8	2.6	2.1
A. Farrell	Jr.	SF	14	12	18.7	.561	.000	.588	0.9	4.3	0.5	1.4	0.7	0.1	1.9	8.0
K. Bernardini	Jr.	PF	14	0	17.4	.465		.818	1.7	5.7	0.1	0.9	0.6	0.9	1.4	4.1
E. McConnell	Sr.	PF	14	0	16.6	.457		.647	1.6	4.9	0.2	1.3	0.6	1.2	1.5	7.6
R. Hill	So.	PG	14	0	16.1	.433	.444	.800	0.2	0.7	1.1	1.4	0.7	0.0	1.1	6.3
V. Frisk	Fr.	SF	14	2	16.0	.558	.000	.732	0.7	3.4	1.3	1.0	0.6	0.0	1.2	5.6
G. Bates	Jr.	SG	14	0	11.1	.636		.769	0.1	0.8	1.4	0.6	0.4	0.0	1.2	2.4
J. Smith	So.	SG	13	0	7.2	.800		.900	0.4	1.3	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.3	1.3
M. Lee	Fr.	SF	8	0	8.9	.750	1.000	.500	0.4	1.9	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.0	2.1
Averages						.469	.353	.719	10.6	37.9	14.9	15.1	7.6	3.6	18.4	80.4
Opp. Averages						.412	.308	.692	12.4	37.1	10.4	16.8	8.7	3.4	25.6	71.4

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Name	Yr.	Pos	GP	GS	MIN	FGM	FGA	FG3M	FG3A	FTM	FTA	OFF	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
D. Peterson	Sr.	PG	14	14	371	120	287	48	133	87	112	8	27	37	51	19	0	34	375
J. Thomas	Sr.	PG	14	14	356	21	44	0	1	35	53	6	23	72	29	11	0	25	77
R. Fowler	Jr.	SF	14	14	287	46	94	3	14	37	55	22	59	19	24	12	6	34	132
R. Clark	Sr.	C	14	14	274	12	28	0	1	6	8	32	112	6	11	8	11	36	30
A. Farrell	Jr.	SF	14	12	262	46	82	0	1	20	34	12	60	7	19	10	1	26	112
K. Bernardini	Jr.	PF	14	0	244	20	43	0	0	18	22	24	80	2	13	9	13	19	58
E. McConnell	Sr.	PF	14	0	232	37	81	0	0	33	51	22	69	3	18	9	17	21	107
R. Hill	So.	PG	14	0	226	26	60	8	18	28	35	3	10	16	20	10	0	16	88
V. Frisk	Fr.	SF	14	2	224	24	43	0	1	30	41	10	48	18	14	9	0	17	78
G. Bates	Jr.	SG	14	0	155	7	11	0	0	20	26	2	11	20	8	5	0	17	34
J. Smith	So.	SG	13	0	93	4	5	0	0	9	10	5	17	5	1	3	0	4	17
M. Lee	Fr.	SF	8	0	71	6	8	1	1	4	8	3	15	4	3	1	2	8	17
Totals						369	786	60	170	327	455	149	531	209	211	106	50	257	1125
Opp. Totals						348	844	84	273	220	318	173	519	146	235	122	48	358	1000

cut back. his fg% is low and he's not drawing fouls or getting to the free throw line. u have guys that are making their shots when they get the chance. and its potentially much easier to defend just one guy

raise Farrell too

Posted by yanks250125 on 4/20/2012 2:18:00 PM (view original):
cut back. his fg% is low and he's not drawing fouls or getting to the free throw line. u have guys that are making their shots when they get the chance. and its potentially much easier to defend just one guy

Not getting to the free throw line?  Seriously?  The guy is averaging 8 free throw attempts per game.  I'd say that's getting to the line.

***Edit***  Just checked Yanks, and of your five teams, you've only got one guy who averaged or is averaging over SIX attempts a game (and that just barely).  So if his EIGHT attempts per game isn't enough, what is?

Yeah, he's getting to the line if you look at it that way. 

Think of it like this.  Peterson is attempting 1 free throw per 2.56 field goal attempts.  The rest of his team is averaging 1 FTA per 1.45 FGA.  Team total of 1:1.73.  So yes, he's getting to the line, but imagine if other guys had more field goal attempts...they would likely get to the line more often than that one guy.  Obviously that has a lot to do with the amount of 3's he's taking, so maybe the solution is to cut down on the amount of 3's he's taking since 36% isn't all that great in the first place?

What do my teams have to do with anything?  But just for fun, my 5 teams average 1 FTA per 2.11 FGA and your 2 teams average 1:1.98. 

Are these numbers close to real life?  This year's Final Four teams averaged 1 FTA per 2.56 FGA. 

Was using your teams for comparison's sake.  36% from three would be equivalent to shooting 54% from two, so that's not that bad either.

Taking threes out of the equation (since players rarely get fouled on threes), he's averaging 1 FT for every 1.38 FGA.  That's not too shabby, no?  Now given that he's shooting almost 78% from the line, I think that yes, I would try to cut down on the threes just a bit and try to draw more fouls. 

Back to the original question though, I think I would lower his distro a bit and spread the ball around a little more.  There are some players on that roster capable of putting the ball in the basket.

Right now Peterson's offensive efficiency is appreciably lower than your team average and your starters' average; that's a pretty good indication you need to dial him back.  And as someone above said, both of your SFs need to see more of the ball.

If nothing els I'd bump someone else up to try and stop double teams

well, I've been bumping him down a few points and adding them to farrell over the last few games, trying to figure out his sweet spot.