From recent CS ticket


Assists have gone overboard.

Assisist in the new engine are a bit high and the player distribution doesnt even make sense.

Wayne Davis picks up 11 assists in this game and is averaging 7.4/game.  He as 72 SPD, 65 BH, and 68 PASS.   Hardly top assist worthy numbers.

The engine shouldnt just "create" assists and hand them out because it can.  They need to make sense based on player ratings.

http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=0&pid=1732598

Mully, the engine has always been a little absurd re: handing out assists to guards who don't have a lot of distro like this one. If you look at the real-life assists leaders, the vast majority are double-digit scorers. But in HD, the way to rack up assists for a guy is to give him less distro. Since it doesn't have any actual impact on the game I don't worry about it though.

mully - were I CS and answering a ticket why, my answer to you would be he plays in the game at times when he is the best passer on the team by a long shot, with lo distro and playing PG, a perfect storm to generate assists.  I am making this example up, but if a backup, lo distro, PG with 60 PA pass plays 20 minutes with all 30 pass teammates, he might get 75% of the assists on the floor, which could add up to 5 or 6 or 7 in this new engine, but if a starting PG with 99 PA is playing with 99 Pass teammate at SG and another 90 pass teammate at center, and has equal distro to everyone else, he may only get 33% of the assists on the floor, which may be 2 or 3.

This is sort of true in real life, at least from my perspective, both from watching and coaching, for a guy to be a high assist guy, he needs to play with a team that lets him dominate the ball, if a team has multiple PG capable or operating type guys, the assists get spread around - think Miami Heat in the pro's vs Boston Celtics

Mully... a few things to keep in mind...

- He's #2 on your team in minutes played.
- He's obviously got a very low distro from the guard spot, so plays are being setup for OTHER people... they have to get the ball from someone.
- He's your 3rd best passer on a 4-1 team that is scoring at a good pace.  So someone has to be getting credit for the assists.  (20 may be high, but it's a small sample size right now)

I think it's rebounding that's broken, not assists.  

You guys are too logical for me!

Thanks for the feedback.