i found the current changelog link but its just a dumb forum post with the last couple years. something seems different to me about subbing than i recall and i need to decide if im crazy and/or stupid, or if something possibly changed at some point, any point, so that i can at least pretend that is why?

on a related note, anyone aware of any changes to sub patterns - particularly, if there was a circumstance previously where subs were not allowed, when they 'should have been' (according to basketball rules or whatever), and now they are allowed? any time in the last 5 years or so, i guess?

"need to decide if im crazy and/or stupid"

hmmmm... im going to to guess:
a) crazy.

i just starting reffing in real life.

theres alot of rules and **** to remember... and now you want me to remember to beckon the subs in?!?!

so, gil, yore saying...

dude is tired.
dead ball occurs

dude stays in game ?

guess i never looked at it that close

wait... you are saying you previously noticed (you think) a glitch where subs wouldnt be let in when they are needed and allowed..
and now you cant find that happening anymore?

well, not exactly - i just feel like subs happen more - or specifically, periods of time where no subs are allowed, like 4m periods, i just am not seeing them like i used to. so i'm wondering if there is a situation where subs should have been allowed, that got fixed - something along those lines - that would explain some of the difference.

maybe its partially just perspective, i'm looking at this primarily on a low d1 team, where volatility is not a concern (maybe even a friend), as opposed to where i left off and volatility was enemy #1. aberrations and edge cases were important; now they aren't, so maybe its all frame of reference.

however it seems different enough that i am think it could be both... and hoping there was a change somewhere that impacted subs somehow. would like to be able to find that old changelog!

i feel like i might be able to find old pbp or two from 2015ish if that wold help?

Posted by kcsundevil on 11/21/2019 12:21:00 AM (view original):
https://www.whatifsports.com/locker/site_updates.asp?sport=HD&numdays=5436

thanks much!!

unfortunately i didn't really find what i was looking for there, but i kinda wanted to look there first. dug more, read dev chats as a result found some 3.0 changes and looked more closely. i think this is potentially a big one - 10/2016 (from the critical news forum - left off the full change log)

• Shot Clock set at 30 seconds

i don't know what all the ramifications of that are, but i suspect my issues partially relate to that change. if the change was done in a vacuum, reducing the shot clock by 15% would create more, shorter possessions - which would in theory allow more sub opportunities, and reduce the time elapsed between subs (which fits my original observation - seeing fewer several minute periods without a sub). if the change was not done in a vacuum, all the stuff they muck with in that area is a candidate.

its probably mostly that i haven't looked at a fb/fcp team in about 7 years, but it just feels slightly more 'off' than i can justify just based on that, the few years i retired, and the different context of the team i was looking at. i really kinda wonder what all they did in there with that change, if they just changed a 35 to 30 somewhere in the code or what...