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From: Isaiah
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Date: 4/10/2012 12:34:34 PM
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Hey guys, I am studying the effect of shotblocking on the shooting percentages of the opponent. I am a firm believer that SB is a key attribute in BB and want to prove it to everyone else. However, I NEED YOUR HELP!

If American owners could send me a BBMail with their bigs' OD,ID, and SB attributes along with your team ID I will be able to continue my research. I will be posting results as well for everyone to see the importance of SB, or if it is important at all in BB. Thank you :)

From: SREZ

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I'm very interested to see what you come up with. I believe SB is very useful as well, so hopefully your study will prove that! Good luck :)

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Hey guys, I am studying the effect of shotblocking on the shooting percentages of the opponent. I am a firm believer that SB is a key attribute in BB and want to prove it to everyone else. However, I NEED YOUR HELP!

If American owners could send me a BBMail with their bigs' OD,ID, and SB attributes along with your team ID I will be able to continue my research. I will be posting results as well for everyone to see the importance of SB, or if it is important at all in BB. Thank you :)



Do you want those of us with not so talented bigs as well as those who have talented bigs?

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Yes, even the not so talented bigs work. I am splitting it up between divisions as I am doing it to really see what kind of SB levels are best for the different divisions as well as wanting to see if even not so talented bigs perform well against good players if they have good SB

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hey smallfrie

Below is the list of my bigs and their attributes:

Francesco Razzante: OD: average
ID: prominent
SB: strong

Catello Brasini: OD: inept
ID: respectable
SB: strong

Unai Xaparrarte: OD: atrocious
ID: strong
SB: average

Team ID: (29823)

The last two guys are usually backups for my team but I currently do not have a starting PF. I am in league IV.9.

Hope this will help!

Last edited by Air Baller at 4/11/2012 7:49:16 AM

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Could I as a Finn participate too? I just happen to have a couple of bigs with extraordinary high SB...
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I wish to participate, bbmail me if I forget to send the info within a few days.

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Yes, I may actually be able to use players on non-American teams as well. Send me a bbmail with their OD,ID,SB please

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So here are the guys I use at C and PF




Claus Achmüller (5766699) Center

Weekly salary: $ 29 842
Role: regular starter

DMI: 332000
Age: 31
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: proficient
Jump Shot: average Jump Range: pitiful
Outside Def.: pitiful Handling: inept
Driving: atrocious Passing: atrocious
Inside Shot: prominent Inside Def.: wondrous
Rebounding: prominent Shot Blocking: proficient
Stamina: awful Free Throw: inept

Experience: respectable
Frankie Coyle (21648631) Center

Weekly salary: $ 3 135
Role: regular starter
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DMI: 34900
Age: 25
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: role player
Game Shape: proficient
Jump Shot: atrocious Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: mediocre
Driving: inept Passing: awful
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: inept Free Throw: average

Experience: awful


From: Timbo4

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This sounds like a great study, as I too wonder if the SB skill is much more useful than the "Shots Blocked" stat reveals. It could be much more useful because a good shot blocker might alter a player's shots without actually blocking them or a good shot blocker might cause a player to pass up a shot he might otherwise take against a poor shot blocker.

I'll send you my info, but I'm curious if you'll try to adjust for the offensive opponents' abilities as well. For example, I play in D.V. (against bots no less), so very weak competition. I'd think even though my bigs don't have outstanding SB or ID, I'm still holding my opponents to a very low FG% because my opponents are awful. Do you think you'll be able to equalize for it because you'll have a large enough amount of data? My team's info might not be that useful, because my opponents are so weak, but I'd think there are a lot of teams with less drastic examples of opponents being outmatched, but where the data would still be skewed.

Just curious.

From: Isaiah

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Thank you for your post.

Yes, I am splitting up the data by divisions. My goal is to not only find out how important SB really is, but also to see how much SB a player might really need in each division.