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From: stogey23

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Date: 4/3/2010 11:47:12 PM
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You must be bored up there to come trolling around here...


oh definitely.

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From: lathrop

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Date: 4/4/2010 2:57:26 PM
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Returning to reality those players were not all who he lined up against and with the defensive switches it didn't even matter much. How many teams in this league could have boasted two $50k mono-skilled offensive players?




I couldn't disagree with you more. I think every single team in this league could field 5 starters, 50k mono skilled offensive players without much trouble. Offensive players don't cost much on the market and are the fastest to train. Defensive stats is what brings real value to a player on the market.

This is the first season I will have even one player making 50k or more per week. I also only have only one player that has either JS or IS higher then their corresponding defensive rating. (I will have 2 by the end of the season based on training expectations). Defense wins in real life and in this game. After all, you can't go on a 10-0 run without making a few stops....

From: Azariah

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Date: 4/4/2010 3:48:36 PM
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Second that. The market very highly rewards defense trainers, in my experience. And the game engine will punish you pretty severely for having one or more sieves defensively. While some of the salary effect is distorted by bigs-vs-smalls, I was never higher than 5th best salary in III.9 (last season, when I promoted), and I was the 2nd best team in the regular season the season before, on the 8th best salary. Personally, I'd much prefer to have the best PA than the best PF, and it appears to me from my experience that the top PA teams are much more likely to win in the playoffs than the top PF teams.

From: Rambo

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Date: 4/4/2010 8:35:17 PM
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You missed my point completely.

I have defensive stoppers I can swap onto other positions. No team had more than 2 pure offensive players that could match those two last season. Therefore, going back to darkjosef's assertion, wtf do I care if he can't defend that well? I'd have to have played a team with 3 G/F types who scored more than him AND as I mentioned with the Top 10 scoring list, that simply was not even close to true.

So with the ability to switch on defense his defense was hidden whenever I needed to.

From: Azariah

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Date: 4/4/2010 10:11:22 PM
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Except you still have a sieve somewhere. So you're basically accepting defensive matchup Rock-Paper-Scissors by having a poor defender out there for his scoring capabilities. And if someone hits Gipson with their top scorer, Gipson is likely to miss a lot of time with foul trouble (or foul out earlyish and/or get completely lit up playing Matador defense, if you use Let Them Play)

From: Rambo

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Date: 4/5/2010 9:25:57 AM
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Best defense is a good offense?
Something tells me Gipson will be just fine. Ask Jim Carmichael.

From: lathrop

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Date: 4/5/2010 11:51:11 AM
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You missed my point completely.

I have defensive stoppers I can swap onto other positions. No team had more than 2 pure offensive players that could match those two last season. Therefore, going back to darkjosef's assertion, wtf do I care if he can't defend that well? I'd have to have played a team with 3 G/F types who scored more than him AND as I mentioned with the Top 10 scoring list, that simply was not even close to true.

So with the ability to switch on defense his defense was hidden whenever I needed to.



The premise of your statements and assertions are misleading at best. Using the top 10 scoring list as a gauge fro ability doesn't mean much when factoring in how training works in this game. Some of the best players might not average 35-40 mins per game, but 25-30 if they are being trained. My 2 bigs from last season spent most of the time sitting in the top 5-7 spots of the average rebounding list. However, I wasn't training them so they were playing every league game, occasionally matching up against inferior trainees. On top of that, I was getting blown out in most games, thus they were padding stats in the 4th quarter against greatly inferior subs. They were not the best rebounders in the league (I have since sold one and relegated the other to back-up duties), but were ranked quite high.

You also imply that the ability to switch around defense responsibilities is some magical cure, but don't seem to realize the other team is doing the exact same thing to you....


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Date: 4/5/2010 1:34:46 PM
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W&C gets the "Folding Chair" Award for his performance in the 4th quarter Saturday night. Congratulations!!



In all fairness to W&C, neither of our teams shot well in the 4th. I only made 4 more FGs than they did. Most of my points came from the line.

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From: Rambo

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Date: 4/5/2010 2:15:30 PM
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You're over-complicating what I am saying!!

How about just, whoever puts the orange leather sphere through the orange ring more frequently wins?

Only 5 players scored more per game than him last season. So if my math serves me correctly that means on average he outscored his opponent for everyone but those 5 players. And that already considers my opponent switching his best defender onto him.

Now consider that I had 3 similar players who could put up 20 ppg. How are you going to beat that? You either need 3 players who are slightly better at offense or 3 players who are shut down defenders but can still beat my 3 players defense or some combination of the above. That simply was not present last season.

I think you're getting tripped up by the premise that whoever scores the most wins. Its tough I know. Also let me assure you I value defense as much as anyone.

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Date: 4/5/2010 5:01:28 PM
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Ha, thanks for the slight props. I actually don't even watch my games anymore - probably wouldn't even have noticed how bad of a 4th I had were it not for the post. Not to mention the fact I wasn't planning on winning anyway . . . apparently I should have actually tried slightly harder . . .

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Date: 4/5/2010 10:17:55 PM
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So there's this little basketball game in town today...I grew up going to Butler games with my grandfather and the Demon Deacon in me hopes Duke has an outbreak of gonnosyphaherpelaids, so I'm happy with the halftime score.

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