Is there any evidence that overplaying the perimeter, for instance playing +2 as opposed to -2 creates more turnovers either on a man to man or full court press? Any thoughts?

for a long time, it was a forum fact that playing a + setting generated additional turnovers. i'm not sure this is actually true, however, and doesn't seem to be mentioned like it used to be, in the +/- tradeoff discussions. i think if anything, its a very minor effect. really should know this one but its been on my list for at least 6 years, and never got to cross it off... i did try and concluded it was small or nothing. kind of a big difference there but still, its at most a secondary or tertiary consideration. i don't consider it at all anymore.

The short answer is...any conclusive evidence in this game is hard to come by.

The long answer is...what a long answer sounds like. My DII man team has had pretty bad team BLK stats for the past two seasons, yet every time I've played more than a -2 I've noticed that we've typically had a higher than average number of blocks per game. The reactionary part of my brain wants to say "obviously the strengthened interior defense leads to more blocks" but the rational part of me says "duh, the more your opponent shoots inside the more possibilities for blocks there will be". Similarly, it seems like the more a team focuses on perimeter defense the more they'd be in passing lanes, so the more likely they would be to get steals. So, if you're team is a one trick pony, and has no balance, then it might be the case that your teams style of play helps exacerbate these effects over the course of a whole game.

However, though this might happen in real life, its no guarantee that it actually happens in this engine.

Sometimes I feel like I'd be best off just running a 0 every night and not worrying about it.