I set my players to go 50% for Honeycutt and 50% for Terry, but I was playing against a full court press sim. Terry was going against a terrible defensive center. Anyways, Honeycutt took 40+ shots and Terry only 9. Was that because of playing against a press? I really felt I could have won the game with equal shots.

Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:09:00 PM (view original):
Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

I always play Honeycutt on the worst defender between pg,sg, and sf. I will recruit 3 point guards this year. But why didn't Terry take any shots when I set him to 50? I'm still learning, but want to have fun anyways. I'm not going to win anything this year, so I want Honeycutt to be the scoring leader. Actually, hitting 38% of threes with all the shots he takes is pretty effective. Equates to 57% in twos.

Posted by johnnyluv151 on 12/31/2016 3:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:09:00 PM (view original):
Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

I always play Honeycutt on the worst defender between pg,sg, and sf. I will recruit 3 point guards this year. But why didn't Terry take any shots when I set him to 50? I'm still learning, but want to have fun anyways. I'm not going to win anything this year, so I want Honeycutt to be the scoring leader. Actually, hitting 38% of threes with all the shots he takes is pretty effective. Equates to 57% in twos.

Okay, I understand, you're trying to get a better matchup.

Well, in press, players are always doubling. So even though their SF is a weak defender, it's not like a 1 on 1 matchup.

I think you should look to put the players in their most suited position first and then go from there. It's hard sometimes not to overthink this game but it can happen.

Also, 38% isn't bad at all but in HD, guys will regularly shoot 45% from from 3 even when taking A TON. It doesn't really mimic real life that way. Not saying he's doing poorly but he'd just be more efficient if playing SG or PG and taking fewer shots.

As for why that guy didn't shoot, that is a little weird but not too surprising actually. I've found that it is really hard to get your Center to take a lot of shots. They just won't do it, I don't know why.

Posted by johnnyluv151 on 12/31/2016 3:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:09:00 PM (view original):
Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

I always play Honeycutt on the worst defender between pg,sg, and sf. I will recruit 3 point guards this year. But why didn't Terry take any shots when I set him to 50? I'm still learning, but want to have fun anyways. I'm not going to win anything this year, so I want Honeycutt to be the scoring leader. Actually, hitting 38% of threes with all the shots he takes is pretty effective. Equates to 57% in twos.

Why don't you give me your distro from last game and I'll try to figure it out.

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by johnnyluv151 on 12/31/2016 3:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:09:00 PM (view original):
Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

I always play Honeycutt on the worst defender between pg,sg, and sf. I will recruit 3 point guards this year. But why didn't Terry take any shots when I set him to 50? I'm still learning, but want to have fun anyways. I'm not going to win anything this year, so I want Honeycutt to be the scoring leader. Actually, hitting 38% of threes with all the shots he takes is pretty effective. Equates to 57% in twos.

Okay, I understand, you're trying to get a better matchup.

Well, in press, players are always doubling. So even though their SF is a weak defender, it's not like a 1 on 1 matchup.

I think you should look to put the players in their most suited position first and then go from there. It's hard sometimes not to overthink this game but it can happen.

Also, 38% isn't bad at all but in HD, guys will regularly shoot 45% from from 3 even when taking A TON. It doesn't really mimic real life that way. Not saying he's doing poorly but he'd just be more efficient if playing SG or PG and taking fewer shots.

As for why that guy didn't shoot, that is a little weird but not too surprising actually. I've found that it is really hard to get your Center to take a lot of shots. They just won't do it, I don't know why.

It is weird, because earlier in the year I set him to 40% and he had 31 points and 14 boards, but that was against a man D. I think the full court press had something to do with it, but why did Honeycutt take 41 shots set to 50%? Oh well, I think I did a good job of coaching, but still lost.

Bingo.

Look at that game he had 31 points. He was playing PF not C.

There ya go!

My best guess is since you set them to equal distribution, it was letting the SIM decide, which guy had the better mismatch. Honeycutt played 30 minutes and Terry played 23 minutes, which would be part of the reason.

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 4:24:00 PM (view original):
Bingo.

Look at that game he had 31 points. He was playing PF not C.

There ya go!

Could be part of it, except Honeycutt still had the shots per minute advantage. Terry played 37 minutes to Honeycutt's 25.

For some reason, if a guard and center are set to equal distro, the guard will normally get most of the shots.

Big men just don't shoot as much as guards and SF for some reason. And Center in particular shoots very little. In my experience at least.

Edit- to clarify they shoot very little with comparative distribution as guards. Guess they are the lunch pail type players and leave all the showboating to their smaller friends.

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 4:37:00 PM (view original):
Big men just don't shoot as much as guards and SF for some reason. And Center in particular shoots very little. In my experience at least.

Edit- to clarify they shoot very little with comparative distribution as guards. Guess they are the lunch pail type players and leave all the showboating to their smaller friends.

Seems logical. 24 of the top 25 players with the highest amount of field goal attempts are guards in D-1 college basketball this year.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/statistics/player/_/stat/field-goals/sort/fieldGoalsAttempted

Also, another point if I may add. Based on one of the developer chats I've read, distribution refers to touches. Not all touches with the ball will result in a shot.

Posted by thewizard17 on 12/31/2016 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by johnnyluv151 on 12/31/2016 3:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 12/31/2016 3:09:00 PM (view original):
Mind if I give you some tips on your team

- Why is honeycutt playing SF? He's your best PG. By a lot. At worst, he should be SG.
- Please cut Matsuda. That ath and def makes me really sad.
- The engine doesn't really like it when one guy takes all the shots. There is some sort of adjustment where his efficiency will plummet if he takes greater than 40% of the shots or something.
- Where are all your guards? you have 4 Freshmen bigs to go along with your Soph big (who you should cut immediately). Try to balance out your roster and make sure you'll always be able to start upperclassmen at all positions. Next season you are in TROUBLE as you'll have to start a guy at PG with about 30 pass.
- Your bigs ath/def is pretty low. That might be okay if they were monsters in reb/blk but they aren't. Try not to get bigs with ath/def below 40. That's about bare min.

I always play Honeycutt on the worst defender between pg,sg, and sf. I will recruit 3 point guards this year. But why didn't Terry take any shots when I set him to 50? I'm still learning, but want to have fun anyways. I'm not going to win anything this year, so I want Honeycutt to be the scoring leader. Actually, hitting 38% of threes with all the shots he takes is pretty effective. Equates to 57% in twos.

Why don't you give me your distro from last game and I'll try to figure it out.

50 % Honeycutt & 50 %Terry, that's it.

My C is tied for the most shots on my team with a PG I'm trying to rein in. I think the same C led the team in attempts last season. Maybe he's a black hole. Once the ball goes in, it never comes out.