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I've noticed that once a player is around respectable, he's about a 75-80% FT shooter. I figure anything above that is virtually pointless. Even an average FT shooter is usually above 70%.

Too small a sample size. There was a post in the BB-Global forums about a guy who found a player with FT ratings from 1-20 and their FT % when the players had over a certain amount of FT's shot. There was a clear upward trend, and while I don't remember how many FT's the player had to take, I know it was more than 20.

Check this out http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...

I think an average FT level of mediocre or above is sufficient for any team. Of course, the more the better, but at higher levels, the difference is insignificant.

In my recent PL game, 4th quarter and 1 second left I get fouled. Player shooting free throw misses his only free throw of the game and the other team gets the 3pt buzzer beater. In overtime, 0 seconds left another player of mine is at free throw line, misses his 2nd shot and I lose the game. :(

Oh yeah forgot, I think I read somewhere that strong is the recommended level most players should have, or anything that gets over 70 ~ 75%

Last edited by Managed by a computerized player... NOT XD at 4/25/2011 11:34:25 AM

I think because Free Throws is a team training type of training, you wouldnt neccassarily run FT training 4-5 times in the year, just for one player.
If your top 3 players who were going to the line a lot in games, all had crapola FT's, then you could probably justify this.

I tend to run FT training once a year, over the all-star break/End of season break. So all my players get it, regardless. Just had a guy pop to Wonderous in FT. he shot 91% last year.

Another examplew would bea guy who first started playing for me (drafted) in season 12, had atrocious FT. Shot 33% that season. His FT is now awful, and shot 47% last year. But i have seen other players with atrocious FT and they only shot 11% or something horrible like that.

So i wonder if the difference in terms of percentage between, Atrocious/pitiful/awful is lager than the difference between respectable/strong/prolific. hard to say

all i know is that, if im buying a plyer, his FT level does play a huge part in the decision on whether i buy him or not.

So i wonder if the difference in terms of percentage between, Atrocious/pitiful/awful is lager than the difference between respectable/strong/prolific. hard to say

but easy to answer, the first steps a huge. if you start with minimum free throw 2 "you cann't buy a bucket"(really) with one training(still atrocious) you hit close to twenty percent. if you train it from respectable + Range the difference is pretty small.

I think training up to medicore in ft is quite efficient, after it only do it if you can not make other stuff with sense.

Another examplew would bea guy who first started playing for me (drafted) in season 12, had atrocious FT. Shot 33% that season. His FT is now awful, and shot 47% last year. But i have seen other players with atrocious FT and they only shot 11% or something horrible like that.

I've had 0% for the first season of a young player I trained, he was over 50 attempts this season :D
He was mediocre when he left, and his statistics during these 5 seasons clearly showed the importance of FT training.

Another examplew would bea guy who first started playing for me (drafted) in season 12, had atrocious FT. Shot 33% that season. His FT is now awful, and shot 47% last year. But i have seen other players with atrocious FT and they only shot 11% or something horrible like that.

well one of my trainees with atrocious FT went 0-127 last year and 0-73 the year before that. that means he has yet to make a free-throw in his career.. i actually find it a bit unrealistic though. everybody would make at least one of 200.