Quote: Originally Posted By cdew8 on 5/13/2009
Kinda like how a team can win by 2 points then lose by 58 two days later to the exact same team? Random stuff like that never happens in the real NBA.
And what a guy like you doesn't understand is the fact that these are stat tables v. stat tables, not human beings v. human beings. There are SO MANY other things in real life that can affect the outcome of a game (individual player emotion, crowd impact, good/bad officiating, coach motivation/energy, etc) that have no place in a game that is supposed to decide winners and losers based upon STATS and TEAM COMPOSITION.
Stat tables are FINITE and are accumulations of what happened over the course of an ENTIRE SEASON, THEREFORE, I don't expect my sim stat tables (players) to have the ups and downs of actual human players because they aren't human beings whose production is based on so many uncontrollable factors and INFINITE possibilities. Monkee has argued this in the past and I'm sure he'll back me here too.
The admins in power here continually fail to see that "extreme" randomness is a constant/persistent problem with their game and as long as they do so, their game will always be in the same vat of quicksand that its always known...its really that cut and dry.
If I thought the game worked how it should, would I really be leaving/stop playing?