1/16/2020 11:29 PM

Richard Wakefield


Sr. | 6'2" | 188 lbs. | 3.5 gpa
Mt Blue HS Farmington, ME
Recruited By: coachdeal10 (#117 SG)
POSRATING
SG781
ATHLETICISM 100
SPEED 85
REBOUNDING 28 7
DEFENSE 97 2
SHOT BLOCKING 2
LOW-POST 80 1
PERIMETER 92 1
BALL HANDLING 48
PASSING 33
WORK ETHIC 68 6
STAMINA 70 1
DURABILITY 78 1
FT SHOOTING B

OFFENSE IQ
Flex: A-
Motion: A-
Triangle: C
Fastbreak: D-
DEFENSE IQ
Man to Man: A+
Zone: C
Press: D-
Potential is indicated by colors: Very Low, Low, Average, High, Very High
1/16/2020 11:34 PM
holy ****, that is a crazy good off/def type player, thats awesome! i kinda like that happened, its the one cool thing about the population being so low. its also the green lp/per hitting big that makes it happen, which is cool, but its also a calculated risk - which is usually how they slip through. but man, that defense is incredible! i am very much of the mindset that all it takes to win championships is 2 core strengths (off, def, reb, guard skills) per player, talent beyond that is nice but largely superfluous. so i don't mind his crap reb / pass, even though it means he's not a natural sg or sf or anything else.

the only thing i actually care about is the stamina, if he was +20 stamina it would make him soooo much better. that may sound weird when hes already amazing, but the law of the diminishing returns in this game implies that elite players usually can't get much better adding core ratings. this guy could, with reb and pass, because he hasn't maxed those abilities out, either of which would be a core (with more pass, hes a sg, with more reb, hes a sf - or a swing between both?). but in the off/def areas, adding 20 ratings is basically 100% worthless. you could take 20, even 40 away without making a dent.

on the flip side, there are no situation where you experience greatly reduced returns on stamina for your best players (assuming you have best players, if you say well my best player is an awful freshman, or my 10th best player would be a top 3 player on any other top 5 team, then this doesn't really apply). the reason is, there is no point where stamina stops increasing the minutes a starter can play. for top players, there is pretty much always a significant gap between their minutes and the guy who is playing less because of it (which is often the worst player of the bunch, like of the guards, or bigs - assuming you are doing the work to set your rotation up right, not just running straight 10 man all the time).

in short - stamina is by far the most valuable marginal rating for this guy, its not even close - and that is true for almost all elite players.
1/17/2020 1:36 AM
Hey Lil' Wizzy!

He slipped through the cracks cause coachdeal10 is a stud steeped in A10 greatness.
1/17/2020 1:26 PM
It probably helped that he was in Maine with only 3 major D-1 schools in New England. Anybody outside of New England and 500 miles probably isn't scouting this guy.

At the start of his career he was really positionless. His starting LP/PE was 33/19, no guard skills, couldn't rebound, so pretty easy to see why D-1 teams passed on him. Didn't even have any speed to start 43.

Only position I would probably put him at in D-1 is SF, but might work out really well running a press at D-2 at SG. He's under 2 turnovers per game, which isn't too bad considering his BH/P.
1/17/2020 1:33 PM
Posted by dillon_b12 on 1/17/2020 1:26:00 PM (view original):
Hey Lil' Wizzy!

He slipped through the cracks cause coachdeal10 is a stud steeped in A10 greatness.
Damn, I'm still Lil' Wizzy. I thought that beatdown my Rutgers squad handed the A10 would've gained some respect around here.
1/17/2020 1:37 PM
Pretty ironic that the coach that left KU in shambles after questions started rising about possible recruiting violations regarding a SR transfer named Derek Templeman is now complaining about another coach's recruiting practices.
1/17/2020 2:21 PM (edited)
Once a Lil Wizzy always a Lil Wizzy.... And that beat down u handed out to the Phelan A10 was so bad it didn’t just scare u enough to move away from the North East (AKA A10 country), it scared you enough to leave the planet (Phelan world). But I’ll admit.... I miss the yearly *** whoopin my Rams got to hand you and Rutgers...! Those were good times! I’m gonna smoke a victory cigar tonight as a toast to you and your help at elevating an A10 team to an A+ prestige! Here’s to you my Lil Wizzy! (Lighter sound)
1/17/2020 1:50 PM
Coach hit the high/high lottery. His ath/speed could have easily topped out at 88/70, with scoring at 60/45. Even with the great defense, he’d be an afterthought at D1 if that happened.

I take flyers on these kinds of players at D1, but I usually get mocked for it.
1/17/2020 4:37 PM
going back a couple years, to the early days of HD-3
Turned into a scoring machine @ D2. He showed up as an unranked recruit at the D2 level.
https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?pid=3606887
1/18/2020 8:01 PM
Posted by oldwarrior on 1/18/2020 8:01:00 PM (view original):
going back a couple years, to the early days of HD-3
Turned into a scoring machine @ D2. He showed up as an unranked recruit at the D2 level.
https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?pid=3606887
I could actually see a player like that, based on the ratings at the start of his career, with a bit of luck, drop down to a D-3 school.
1/18/2020 10:44 PM

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