Obviously there are a ton of factors with regard to distro. TO's, assists, etc.

However, I set my two big men last game at 14 and 12 distro respectively, and my SG and SF spots and 4 and 6 respectively...

None of them were in foul trouble and all played similar minutes. None shot an irregular amount of FT's. Bench distro was more or less even.

My guards took 21 shots and my bigs took only 9.

Anyone else have this problem at all when distro doesn't do what you say it to by such a large margin?

In my experience, I always have to give even more distribution to the bigs against a fullcourt press. To me, the defense makes a difference as well.

I feel the same as swift. I believe the D will force certain players to handle the ball more and at times take more shots.

I'm pretty down on distro when i can set up my team with my starting sf at 50 my back up sf at 40 a sg at 5 and a center at 5 and my center takes more shots than the SF's without getting any offensive rebounds in multiple games it just leaves me thinking that it's crap

A player getting doubled can also dictate how few shots they might get. I have had some games where distro didn't make sense too but not that often.

Something I never hear much about, but which plays a far bigger role, IMHO, than anything -- who else is on the court with each player? Grantduck, in the game you refer to, your SG got on a substitution schedule with 4 bench players -- therefore, even though he had a lower dist. compared to other starters, he probably had a higher one than most guys on the court with him, and therefore took more shots. Everyone thinks setting distributions is a perfect science, but with the hockey-style substitutions, these settings almost never work out as planned because you can't prepare for who'll be on the court...

Definitely. If you have all starters with 15 distro and all backups with 5, if only one of the starters is playing, it would multiply his distro. Not a math major so someone else can do the math here. I think though that with the starters each one would get a "possession opportunity" 1 out of every 5 times. With one starter in it would be maybe 1 out of 2 or 1 out of 3. Something like that.

learning how to handle distro is one of the most fun parts of the game, as far as I am concerned, it works exactly how it theoretically should over the course of a season, but in any one or two games, it can be a little goofy,

what jeff said about who is on the court with who is very important, for example, if all the starters were set to 15% and played exactly 20 minutes - all together, and 4 reserves were set to 1%, with the 5th reserve set to 4% and also played 20 minutes all together, the 4% reserve would have run for him approx 2.5 more plays than ANY of the starters, and the reserves would get approx 62% of the plays that the starters got.

this is not immediately intuitive, and confounds at times even some of the top coaches.

Quote: Originally Posted By grantduck on 1/23/2010
Obviously there are a ton of factors with regard to distro. TO's, assists, etc.

However, I set my two big men last game at 14 and 12 distro respectively, and my SG and SF spots and 4 and 6 respectively...

None of them were in foul trouble and all played similar minutes. None shot an irregular amount of FT's. Bench distro was more or less even.

My guards took 21 shots and my bigs took only 9.

Anyone else have this problem at all when distro doesn't do what you say it to by such a large margin?

It's probably just a coincidence, but with my other ID, I set my PG to 4 (about 10% of the starters) last night, and he took 10+ shots.

I've been noticing some things lately, though, but I can't tell if it's just coincidental. Only one thing that I felt was pretty egregious, so it maybe it is.

Edit: actually, it was with this ID.