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Well in that case it seems most likely that you did not set your draft order properly. If you have information on a player that has 5 skill balls and another with 2 skill balls, why would you draft a 2 skill ball player over him?? The difference between the two players is that 5 skill ball player have more skills at respectable. Also, by scouting a guy twice you know just how good the 5 ball player is be it a A+,A or A- and also giving you information on his potential, again giving you more information on the player for you to make a decision. I don't see how this information is "somewhat useless" as it is the difference between drafting a player of over a million in value and a guy not even transferable on the market....

Again you refer to DMI. It is called the Deliberately Meaningless Index for a reason. You can't compare players with it. It is misleading to try gauge how good/bad a player is by looking at DMI as a player in really crap game shape will have bad DMI but his skills might be better than everyone on the team.

If DMI had absolutely no point, why is it there?

even the game manual says DMI is a lot less meaningful than it first appears, so you shouldn't mislead newbies with such referrals.

I like to determine some players by game shape. If someone has bad game shape, I usually put them on the backups. It is how they did in practice, and will make them perform better on the court.

am I getting it wrong or you say game shape is about how players did in practice? if so you are wrong cause GS is about the minutes, not practice or training.

but, unrelated to the topic, as he mentioned, DMI does give information and gameshape does influence performance in a game a lot
a 15k proficient game shape player can play a better game than a 25k salary respectable game shape one
of course if one has 15k and the other 75k it doesn't make that much a difference

GS effects the performance, we all know that.But when someone says game shape is about how players did in practice I am not buying that.

right, that's absolute rubbish, but hey, that's our Shaq))

it is not an indicator of how effective his training sessions were. Did u read that part shaq training isn't affected by game shape.

Last edited by aussie dude at 12/28/2009 7:04:17 PM

However, Game Shape is an indication of how sharp the player looked in practice and therefore how well he will be expected to play in a game; it is not an indicator of how effective his training sessions were.

I may be wrong, but I believe that this is another one of those situations where the BBs were trying to be cute in their description of the rules and not really a direct one-for-one representation of what the rules actually are. (If that makes any sense)

We don't really have practice in this game - there's the abstract concept of "training" which is connected to minutes played, but how well a players practices doesn't really have any meaning in this game.

I think this is a good example of where the manual is less useful than experience and common sense.

Even a stopped clock is wright twice a day. He is actually correct this time. What the BB's so cutely, as you put it, refer to as "practice" is actually what accounts for the random variable in game shape. It's not nearly as important as the minutes, but it does effect game shape.