Whoever I sign will be my backup this season. I play Triangle/press

Recruit A:
Ath - 45/high
Sp - 61/avg
Reb - 47/avg
D - 18/avg
LP - 1/avg
Per- 45/avg
BH - 70/avg
Pass - 70avg
WE - 59
FT% - 68/low

Recruit B:
Ath - 45/avg
spd - 58/avg
Reb - 47/avg
D - 47/hi
LP - 42/avg
Per - 55/hi
Bh - 30/avg
P - 41/avg
WE- 47
FT% - 57/low

A is a great BH/P for an SF, but I'd rather have avg. BH/P and better Reb/Def plus some LP play in an SF.

Give me B, definitely.

How about the ath/sp/FT advantage that A will have?

B, by a long shot. It's not even close. D high and PE High & everything else is roughly even except BH & Passing. I played Press for 7 seasons, and you'll definitely need the very good Def rating. One thing you out though was Stamina. With a press D you're gonna need good to excellent Stamina.

It's definitely close courtmagic, no way either player is better by a longshot. Originally I thought A was better then I started thinking I liked B more, I think it's close because A will be more athletic and faster and a much better ball handler and passer and better free throw shooter. B should be a better scorer and defender, however player A being more athletic and faster and having great BH could lead to him being actually a pretty good scorer.

Stamina wasn't included because both will end up in the 90s. Also player A has more versatility and I could play him at 3 positions while player B is locked into the SF role.

My thinking was based just on using him as an SF. If you can eventually give him minutes at a G, A is excellent as a swing man. That's really ridiculous BH/P for an SF and if I were strong with my bigs, I'd take A, but I hate having an SF with terrible LP because SF's who are strong LP players and at least avg. PER are very tough to handle, especially with solid SP/Ath.

A may be a better SG than a an SF.

I assume we're talking D-II here.

Quote: Originally Posted By kmasonbx on 4/24/2010How about the ath/sp/FT advantage that A will have

with potential and the hard caps player A may, or may not have an decided advantage over player B. A lot depends on what those avg potentials translate to.

they could end up at:

player A
ATH - 45 +20 = 65
SPD - 61 +10 = 71

player B
ATH - 45 +19 = 64
SPD - 58 +19 = 77

Honestly, I'd sign player A but only as a guard. He has solid bh/passing, but that reb advantage he'd have over the other guards would be nuts. Player B is the better true SF, and based on what I look for in small forwards this isn't even comparable. I want scoring over bh/passing on my small forwards.

Honestly I think people underrate how important BH is to scoring. In my last 2 seasons on my Bryant team my SG was my leading scorer with similar distros. 2 seasons ago it was a SG with 76ath/82sp/89per/84bh and he averaged 14ppg. Last season my SG had 60ath/84sp/84per/98bh and averaged 16ppg. For their careers both players played the same aount of games with the 1st player playing 400 more minutes and the second player scored 3 more points for his career while shooting a better percent from the field and from 3.

LP is a player's ability to score in the paint. If your SF doesn't have any (Player A), he'll just be a guard.

And I agree with Furry, he'd be a fantastic rebounding guard.

Thing is A doesn't have the speed to be a full time guard, only spot duty. I think both are best suited for the SF position. I could also go with option C and just sign both, lol.

Here is an example of a PG I used at SF on this ID and he was very productive as a scorer despite a 1 LP. http://whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Stats.aspx?tid=12214&pid=1487030

Odd, he only got 81 FTAs on 366 FGAs.

b but his ft sucks

The FTs were due to 2/3 of his shots being 3s, and my team sucking so he didn't get end of game free throws.

This whole thread is now moot, somebody else jumped on player B and they have an enormous distance advantage, so no choice but to go with player A, thanks for the input guys.