I have a stack of blank 3X5 cards on my desk and I am constantly making notes about changes to make or data to check. I don't store old data on my hard drive but I have a 3" stack of old cards that I refer back to. I also have a calculator which I use to double check WIS on their listed shooting percentages or other stats and I also use it to figure out projected RPI and SOS data.

As far as the personality thing, I like to create backgrounds for my players. For example, I have had players win state track and field events, junior rodeo championships, and participate in water polo, martial arts, and community theater. I have had players who played in jug bands. danced in ballets, and won watermellon seed spitting contests. I also create their school majors such as Forensic Botany, Scandanavian Literature, Oceanagraphic Geology, and Ancient South American Languages. I have had orphans, foster kids, only children, and one player was the 13th of 15 siblings. I think it makes my practice time yelling and halftime speeches more realistic. Sometimes it makes assigning roommates on the road a real challange though.

I used to invite each team to my house for dinner during the preseason but it got too expensive so now we just have them over for dessert. Plus, it cuts down on broken china.

As reinsel said, "Sometimes, when I am alone in the car, I pretend to make recruiting calls to imaginary basketball players. I am totally sure that I can stop. Really."

+11111111111111

As frustrating as this game is sometimes, there are a ton of ways to have fun with it. Guess that's why we're all addicted.

Holy crap!  (billyg's neighbor.)

YES on loading up for a title game.  That may have been obvious from my song choices.  But I haven't made a final four for a while, so now I have to do it for sweet sixteens.  (Elite eight games play at 11 a.m. PT, if I'm drinking for those well then we'd be talking a non-HD problem.)

p.s. I also write down / print things like weena instead of saving.  I have folders crammed with HD stuff.  And many many notebooks of old sim baseball stats.

This is either really, really into it or I'm a bit too obsessed...I went to the Wilson uniform website a while back and designed the home/away/alternate jerseys for my Oberlin program.  I've also sent CS a few tickets suggesting that there be a choice on the "Office" tab for us to assign our players #'s or have them randomly assigned one as soon as they show up on our roster.  During recruiting this season I also came up with this little twist to try to sway players to sign with a school: Ofensive Focal Point offer. This would be used when recruiting a player that's either an absolute stud JUCO/transfer or a frosh with a ton of High-highs. Instead of just offering him a guaranteed starting spot, you also tell him that he's going to be the focal point of your offense, which would come with some sort of built-in distro and minutes promise that you'd have to use when they show up on your roster. Anyway...I'm really, reall, really into this game.

And for those of you who didn't laugh at the uniform design [or maybe did]...here's the link.

http://uniformdesigner.wilson.com/uniformdesigner/index.html

Posted by Weena on 9/20/2012 3:53:00 PM (view original):
I have a stack of blank 3X5 cards on my desk and I am constantly making notes about changes to make or data to check. I don't store old data on my hard drive but I have a 3" stack of old cards that I refer back to. I also have a calculator which I use to double check WIS on their listed shooting percentages or other stats and I also use it to figure out projected RPI and SOS data.

As far as the personality thing, I like to create backgrounds for my players. For example, I have had players win state track and field events, junior rodeo championships, and participate in water polo, martial arts, and community theater. I have had players who played in jug bands. danced in ballets, and won watermellon seed spitting contests. I also create their school majors such as Forensic Botany, Scandanavian Literature, Oceanagraphic Geology, and Ancient South American Languages. I have had orphans, foster kids, only children, and one player was the 13th of 15 siblings. I think it makes my practice time yelling and halftime speeches more realistic. Sometimes it makes assigning roommates on the road a real challange though.

I used to invite each team to my house for dinner during the preseason but it got too expensive so now we just have them over for dessert. Plus, it cuts down on broken china.

And that's why having weena in your conference is always a good thing.

Posted by coach_billyg on 9/20/2012 3:19:00 PM (view original):
any time i win a championship (which is not very often these days, but ive done it since the beginning), i always blast queen's we are the champions, usually about 5 or 6 times, until my wife threatens to kill me. i often will load up on bourbon in celebration of making the NT game, so if i win, i can celebrate in style. and if not, well, i can mourn appropriately. so occasionally, i will join in with freddy mercury, and then i get to play it about twice before the wife steps in :) the fact that she is always sleeping at 2 in the morning doesn't really go my way, but you know, i make due.

i generally dont give pep talks or anything, but during the NT, i will get pretty into games (especially if sobriety has long since went out the window). my wife no longer comes in the room when i explode in, "YOU MOTHER ******, WHAT THE **** ARE YOU THINKING!!", "OH MY GOD, YOU PIECE OF ****" or similar several times in rapid succession. those are the bad games. occasionally i have realistic 3 point celebrations (the kind you have as a fan at a big game, not as a player) as well. ever since i looked out the window mid game and saw my drunken neighbor (he was robbed, hog tied for 2 hours during the robbery, not long ago - so hes kind of over the deep end lately) standing on his lawn, looking around totally discombobulated, with his double barrel 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, i make sure to actually close my windows before reading any NT pbps. im not sure if i roused him with my yelling, or if he was just having one of his 2 am drunken strolls with a shotgun over his shoulder (they were a pretty common thing for a while there), but i figured i better err on the side of caution :) and just to note, i really don't live in a crazy whacked out area or anything. im not big on signing my life away for X number of years (especially when X is 30) to own something, so i like to live cheaply, but not at the risk of safety. we actually live in a pretty safe area for cincinnati. its just sad my neighbor went through such a messed up ordeal. hes doing better now though, and its been months since ive seen him outside with his shotgun, or outside wasted at all. and the crack whores who we never saw before the ordeal, who became a multiple times a week thing, they are gone, too. but i still havent stopped closing my windows, that one time did kind of freak me out :)

Judging from the number of times you reference getting drunk in your posts, to the total number of posts made, it would seem like you get a little polluted before pretty much ANY game! 

I'm sure i am on the site way to much. I have all the end of season and start of season stats on all my recruits. I read all my pbp and often find myself yelling, not aloud, to my players when they make mistakes. I even once stood up and thru a chair across the room when i thought the refs made a bad call.......not really but i did see someone do that once....My wife has finally learned to humor me when i start talking about my team to her.

I don't read Pbp unless it is sweet 16 or later or real important game. I do find myself constantly checking my teams like the ratings have somehow improved more since the last time I logged on. I was driving to Kansas from Michigan and passed Greenville which I coach at d3 and I told my wife as we drove by.... Why would a recruit want to play here? She said what? I said nothing I coach this team, she laughed at me and said I was crazy. 

Posted by emy1013 on 9/20/2012 7:16:00 PM (view original):

Posted by coach_billyg on 9/20/2012 3:19:00 PM (view original):
any time i win a championship (which is not very often these days, but ive done it since the beginning), i always blast queen's we are the champions, usually about 5 or 6 times, until my wife threatens to kill me. i often will load up on bourbon in celebration of making the NT game, so if i win, i can celebrate in style. and if not, well, i can mourn appropriately. so occasionally, i will join in with freddy mercury, and then i get to play it about twice before the wife steps in :) the fact that she is always sleeping at 2 in the morning doesn't really go my way, but you know, i make due.

i generally dont give pep talks or anything, but during the NT, i will get pretty into games (especially if sobriety has long since went out the window). my wife no longer comes in the room when i explode in, "YOU MOTHER ******, WHAT THE **** ARE YOU THINKING!!", "OH MY GOD, YOU PIECE OF ****" or similar several times in rapid succession. those are the bad games. occasionally i have realistic 3 point celebrations (the kind you have as a fan at a big game, not as a player) as well. ever since i looked out the window mid game and saw my drunken neighbor (he was robbed, hog tied for 2 hours during the robbery, not long ago - so hes kind of over the deep end lately) standing on his lawn, looking around totally discombobulated, with his double barrel 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, i make sure to actually close my windows before reading any NT pbps. im not sure if i roused him with my yelling, or if he was just having one of his 2 am drunken strolls with a shotgun over his shoulder (they were a pretty common thing for a while there), but i figured i better err on the side of caution :) and just to note, i really don't live in a crazy whacked out area or anything. im not big on signing my life away for X number of years (especially when X is 30) to own something, so i like to live cheaply, but not at the risk of safety. we actually live in a pretty safe area for cincinnati. its just sad my neighbor went through such a messed up ordeal. hes doing better now though, and its been months since ive seen him outside with his shotgun, or outside wasted at all. and the crack whores who we never saw before the ordeal, who became a multiple times a week thing, they are gone, too. but i still havent stopped closing my windows, that one time did kind of freak me out :)

Judging from the number of times you reference getting drunk in your posts, to the total number of posts made, it would seem like you get a little polluted before pretty much ANY game! 

i plead the fifth (of jack)

Posted by coach_billyg on 9/21/2012 12:09:00 AM (view original):

Posted by emy1013 on 9/20/2012 7:16:00 PM (view original):

Posted by coach_billyg on 9/20/2012 3:19:00 PM (view original):
any time i win a championship (which is not very often these days, but ive done it since the beginning), i always blast queen's we are the champions, usually about 5 or 6 times, until my wife threatens to kill me. i often will load up on bourbon in celebration of making the NT game, so if i win, i can celebrate in style. and if not, well, i can mourn appropriately. so occasionally, i will join in with freddy mercury, and then i get to play it about twice before the wife steps in :) the fact that she is always sleeping at 2 in the morning doesn't really go my way, but you know, i make due.

i generally dont give pep talks or anything, but during the NT, i will get pretty into games (especially if sobriety has long since went out the window). my wife no longer comes in the room when i explode in, "YOU MOTHER ******, WHAT THE **** ARE YOU THINKING!!", "OH MY GOD, YOU PIECE OF ****" or similar several times in rapid succession. those are the bad games. occasionally i have realistic 3 point celebrations (the kind you have as a fan at a big game, not as a player) as well. ever since i looked out the window mid game and saw my drunken neighbor (he was robbed, hog tied for 2 hours during the robbery, not long ago - so hes kind of over the deep end lately) standing on his lawn, looking around totally discombobulated, with his double barrel 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, i make sure to actually close my windows before reading any NT pbps. im not sure if i roused him with my yelling, or if he was just having one of his 2 am drunken strolls with a shotgun over his shoulder (they were a pretty common thing for a while there), but i figured i better err on the side of caution :) and just to note, i really don't live in a crazy whacked out area or anything. im not big on signing my life away for X number of years (especially when X is 30) to own something, so i like to live cheaply, but not at the risk of safety. we actually live in a pretty safe area for cincinnati. its just sad my neighbor went through such a messed up ordeal. hes doing better now though, and its been months since ive seen him outside with his shotgun, or outside wasted at all. and the crack whores who we never saw before the ordeal, who became a multiple times a week thing, they are gone, too. but i still havent stopped closing my windows, that one time did kind of freak me out :)

Judging from the number of times you reference getting drunk in your posts, to the total number of posts made, it would seem like you get a little polluted before pretty much ANY game! 

i plead the fifth (of jack)

Nice (and glad you didn't take offense).

I am so glad I'm not alone, I was just ******** to my girl about getting a ****** seed in the NT the other day and she looked at me like I was F'n crazy...I told her she needed to get a team to understand...she told me I need to get a new hobby, damn women they just don't understand the amount of stress that comes with being a WIS head coach!!!! 

A fellow Naismith coach and I have made play-by-play broadcasts for each other, complete with sound effects and crowd noise.  To make the play-by-play more interesting, we usually setup the play with some passing, drives, pump fakes, etc.  I've gotten pretty good at reading between the lines to add this stuff.  Kind of a pain in the ***, but makes for great listening for the other coach (I'll broadcast one of his big games and vice versa).  Lots of inside jokes in the broadcast, too.  

Posted by p6453 on 9/20/2012 4:29:00 PM (view original):
This is either really, really into it or I'm a bit too obsessed...I went to the Wilson uniform website a while back and designed the home/away/alternate jerseys for my Oberlin program.  I've also sent CS a few tickets suggesting that there be a choice on the "Office" tab for us to assign our players #'s or have them randomly assigned one as soon as they show up on our roster.  During recruiting this season I also came up with this little twist to try to sway players to sign with a school: Ofensive Focal Point offer. This would be used when recruiting a player that's either an absolute stud JUCO/transfer or a frosh with a ton of High-highs. Instead of just offering him a guaranteed starting spot, you also tell him that he's going to be the focal point of your offense, which would come with some sort of built-in distro and minutes promise that you'd have to use when they show up on your roster. Anyway...I'm really, reall, really into this game.

And for those of you who didn't laugh at the uniform design [or maybe did]...here's the link.

http://uniformdesigner.wilson.com/uniformdesigner/index.html

I like the ideas on jersey numbers and offensive focal point.

Posted by ldhmnh on 9/19/2012 7:08:00 PM (view original):
I've always been quite the stats Nerd.  When I was a kid 9-12 years old, I would shoot free throws into my Nerf Hoop on the wall, but to administer the element of "stat-Nerd-iness" I would make up schedules for my college team (usually Notre Dame), and shoot free throws.  If I made all three, I won convincingly.  If I made 2 of 3, I won minimally.  If I missed more than I made, I lost, etc....  I would record all my wins and losses on a sheet of graph paper; onto the schedule I had made before I started. I would later add the element of "playing ranked opponents or playing good teams on the road," and move the strip back, to make it tougher to win.  
After a while, I accumulated a ton of irrelevant stacks of papers with all these schedules and fake scores on it.  I would do similar Nerdy-stat stuff for baseball and football.  Now, I find myself doing the same (albeit, much more tamed down now).  But that brings me to the subject heading question - "how in to it are you?"  

• Do you read your play by play report of your game and act like an annoucer (even throwing in a little crowd noise when your team goes on a roll?
• Do you save the win/loss records of your teams each year?
• Do you find yourself talking to yourself sometimes (usually after games), acting like you're in the post-game press conference, answering the questions the reporters had about the game?
• Do you find that winning and losing sets the tone for your day?
• Do you love the recruiting time more than the non-recruiting time because you get an update every three hours?
• Lol, I'm sure there's other quirks I have while playing Hoops Dynasty, but I'd like to hear yours...

Thanks for the thread, I love reading these posts, I use to keep made up stats after made up stats for almost every sport, baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. I would do free throws, 3 pointers, just play a game as both teams, and even just make up stats using dice when I was a kid. I'd compute batting averages, era's, rbi's, points, assists, goals, give out imaginary MVP 's, cy young's, and even play out imaginary careers. I remember doing stats and math- multiplication/division when I was 6 to figure this stuff out.

I definitely now spend much time looking at HD stats and game planning but comparatively I would say I have my "obsessions" under control and don't keep my own stats. Definitely bad losses or big games ruin my day and big games get my heart rate and blood pressure up.

Creating your own play by play with crowd noises is pretty awesome.

Awesome thread ldhmnh.

one of the better reads in a long time on here. glad i am not the only one who does some the same stuff as other coaches. i use to line up my baseball cards in thier positions and have the other team hit pennies. the big red machine never lost a game. man the money i lost out on ruining the cards of the late 70's..............