Quote: Originally posted by seble on 3/12/2008Wanted to give everybody a heads up that we'll be adding a new feature next week, most likely Wednesday or Thursday.
There will be a team setting called Defensive Positioning that will allow you to indicate whether you'd like your defense to extend out to perimeter or sag into the paint more. It's a +3 (guard perimeter) to -3 (guard paint) setting.
Along with the new setting, each player in the database has been designated as a Perimeter, Midrange, or Paint offensive style.
This will indicate how a particular offensive player will be affected by the defensive positioning. For example, if you're facing a team filled with players designated Perimeter, then you'd want to shift your defense toward the perimeter (a plus setting) and vice versa for a team of Paint players.
The positioning setting will impact your own team's defensive rebounding (the further away from the basket, the harder to rebound). It will impact your opponent's turnover and foul chances slightly, frequency of 3pt shots vs. 2pt shots, and of course both 2pt FG% and 3pt FG%. How much of an impact depends on the setting and the range designation of a particular offensive player that has the ball.
The setting will be available to all teams, but will only be used by the SimEngine for leagues starting after the release date.
I'll monitor this thread for a while if anyone has questions.
Just catching up to this and I've read some of the responses but not all, so apologies if I'm repeating something.
Please clarify that the “offensive style” designations are only there for the defensive positioning to work. In other words, they do not, on their own or otherwise, affect the quality of their offensive performance.
If this is not the case – if the “offensive style” designations have effects beyond the defensive positioning – this is, in my opinion, a bad idea unless it comes with further coaching options associated with it.
Thanks.