http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=12620

One of the areas I struggle is with Player Distribution. I tend to view my team as balanced and generally wind up with a balanced distribution. However, I notice teams that "load" players. Think I have a pretty good team this season and getting ready for NT bids. I would appreciate any thoughts or insights on whether should be "riding" a few players with loaded distribution, or trust the results to this point with a generally "balanced" distribution.

Thanks.

At quick glance, this team should have a balanced distribution. You have multiple guys who can score but no true superstar scorer. Your percentages are fine with everyone who should be scoring, scoring. How are you going to load someone's distro here and improve your team's efficiency? Your 5 top scorers are all close to equally efficent as they are now. I'm not looking at your team to find ways to improve it, but for your team a balanced distro looks like the best way to go in general. You may be able to surprise some teams in the NT that see you have scorers all over the floor by changing it up for a game to pound it inside on a team prone to fouling or by playing the outside game (just got beat by someone who pulled this, even though I saw it coming and planned for it... oh well) etc etc etc. I don't see distribution as a problem here.

There is nothing wrong with having a balanced distro, heck my #2 scorer on my Nebraska Wesleyan team (who is ranked 4 spots behind your team) is a guy coming off the bench. If you have quality players at multiple positions no reasons to load up. That being said if I see a huge advantage from a team playing M2M then I will feed a certain player high distro and he might score 20, but that's part of the fun of game planning.

I actually think it is easier to game plan against teams that have one guy scoring 20+ points, especially in M2M defense.

It is very dependent on your roster.  My UMass squad

http://www.wisjournal.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=8818

Is about the most unbalanced team I have ever had.  Anderson leads D1 in scoring and Novak is up there too.  No one else is any good, or they are a freshman.   My other team is way more balanced and isn't like that at all.  Either can work.