Let's say you have an uber starting 5 like below:

Name	Yr.	Pos.	A	SPD	REB	DE	BLK	LP	PE	BH	P	WE	ST	DU	FT	TOT
Point Guard	Sr.	PG	79	99	59	99	29	19	19	99	99	79	89	79	A	848
Shooting Guard	Sr.	SG	89	89	69	99	39	69	99	79	79	79	89	79	A	958
Small Forward	Sr.	SF	89	89	79	99	79	79	89	69	69	79	89	79	A	988
Power Forward	Sr.	PF	99	79	89	99	89	89	49	59	59	79	89	79	A	958
Center	Sr.	C	99	79	99	99	99	99	39	49	49	79	89	79	A	958

What would be your distro for this lineup?

The reason I ask is I've heard time and again from WIS that distro is "touches", but all to often I see distro translated into shot attempts in my games. Obviously you want the Point Guard on this uber team touching the ball as much as possible with his SPD, BH, and P so he can setup his teammates all 4 of which can score at will. In real life, that Point Guard would probably "touch" the ball 40% of the time and probably average 10 assists a game. I'd expect a real life distro be something like PG-40, SG-15, SF-15, PF-15, C-15.

Now in WIS, I'd be afraid to pump any distro in him because his PE. I'd probably run something like PG-0, SG-25, SF-25, PF-25, C-25.

Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

Posted by Weena on 2/6/2012 2:37:00 AM (view original):
Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

I'm not buying that "Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function". It seems if I give a PG who has ratings and on a team similar to above a small % of distribution, his assists go up exponentially. Which is why I posed the question.

Posted by hackerhog on 2/6/2012 10:38:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Weena on 2/6/2012 2:37:00 AM (view original):
Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

I'm not buying that "Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function". It seems if I give a PG who has ratings and on a team similar to above a small % of distribution, his assists go up exponentially. Which is why I posed the question.

Then by all means, give that terrible offensive option some distro.  Just because you're wrong is by no means reason to stop doing it.

Posted by hackerhog on 2/6/2012 10:38:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Weena on 2/6/2012 2:37:00 AM (view original):
Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

I'm not buying that "Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function". It seems if I give a PG who has ratings and on a team similar to above a small % of distribution, his assists go up exponentially. Which is why I posed the question.

The engine is quirky/wrong. It does think that pg's who have more distro can't also have strong assist #'s.But that should not impact your thoughts on distro.

That said:

1. That pg is still a good person to give distro to, just set to -2.
2. Assists are kind of cosmetic, I wouldn't worry too much about them.
3. Weena is right, distro is about plays run for a specific player, it is not "touches".

Posted by girt25 on 2/6/2012 11:43:00 AM (view original):

Posted by hackerhog on 2/6/2012 10:38:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Weena on 2/6/2012 2:37:00 AM (view original):
Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

I'm not buying that "Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function". It seems if I give a PG who has ratings and on a team similar to above a small % of distribution, his assists go up exponentially. Which is why I posed the question.

The engine is quirky/wrong. It does think that pg's who have more distro can't also have strong assist #'s.But that should not impact your thoughts on distro.

That said:

1. That pg is still a good person to give distro to, just set to -2.
2. Assists are kind of cosmetic, I wouldn't worry too much about them.
3. Weena is right, distro is about plays run for a specific player, it is not "touches".

+1

Posted by ll316 on 2/6/2012 11:10:00 AM (view original):

Posted by hackerhog on 2/6/2012 10:38:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Weena on 2/6/2012 2:37:00 AM (view original):
Distro is the number of plays run for the player. This normally will end up in a shot but it also could end up as a foul or TO. Your PG will set up plays and pass like a PG with or without distro. Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function.

I'm not buying that "Distro does not affect how often the PG handles the ball during his normal PG function". It seems if I give a PG who has ratings and on a team similar to above a small % of distribution, his assists go up exponentially. Which is why I posed the question.

Then by all means, give that terrible offensive option some distro.  Just because you're wrong is by no means reason to stop doing it.

So I'm wrong by assigning him 0 distro? Cause that's what I've always done.

Read first. Post later.

I simply posed the question because I found it interesting when in experimenting against teams I know I can beat... if I give him a few distro points instead of 0, his assists go up.

Forget I even asked.

That could be because the teams you're playing give up more total buckets...  Just saying.  Based on everything I've ever seen assists are slightly inversely related to distro.  Give them more distro and they'll get less assists because they take more shots.  That said, the highest-scoring player I ever had is one of his team's all-time assists leaders as well.  But not nearly so much so as the PG he played with, who almost never shot and ended up 15th all-time in Knight D3 in assists.