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Can't wait to see what bugs might occur though. ;)

If I search for JR minimum 15 I get 60 only.

And if you take a look at those players that charge top dollar, you will find that all of them are poor shooters - none of those elite shooters (on paper) shoots better than .380 from three. So to me it is pretty obvious that there is no way someone would pay up to ~60k additional salary for elite range if he can get free IS on a guard that will produce efficiently.

I think the addition of the prediction bonus will backfire. First of all you get even easier wins over bot teams - not a big issue, but still. Second you failed to follow one of the key principles KISS - keep it simple stupid. Instead of constantly adding to the game to resolve the LI issue you could have removed the tactic from the main game - take your time to fix it, test it in PL and scrimmage games and unlock it again in a year or so.

Plus there are countertactics that should be used! 2-3 counters LI, so why do we need to add a bonus? IF the defense works like intended (as officials said multiple times) and we just need to fix our players...

So the direction we are going will lead to another imbalance in teams being able to field the right players to counter LI AND even get a bonus on top of it, so LI suddenly becomes unplayable because the countertactic became too strong. Please be aware of the possibility of oversteering in the wrong direction.

I think tweaking the salary formula is the right way to go, but as long as elite shooters don't hit their shots we won't see a surge in high JR players. So maybe you should take your time and think about the impact of OD and IS for guards.

Again, I don't see how you can state the GE is the root of the tactical imbalance if so many people train players to fit only one tactic. I'm much more in the basket of DerMef who states players will be optimized for giving the highest performance per salary dollar, and then you just pick a tactic that fits that optimized player skillet. When reasoning from his point of view, the change of salary should now automatically result in different trained skillsets.

As I said in the season 24 discussion topic, if I currenlty search the tranferslist for Shotblocking minimum 15 at this moment I get 6 results only. If I search for JR minimum 15 I get 60 only. Change it to OD you'll get over 600, change it to IS you'll get over 550. To me it makes a lot of sense teams aren't able to play a 2-3 zone effectively with skillsets like this. Yet this doesn't mean it's a GE problem.

So, if you agrre with DerMef, why do you think people should train for something different?
To have high SB to be capable to put out a 2-3 defense, you got to sacrifice one of the three main skills for the big man(IS,ID,Reb), since a big man with all the 4 skills high are not sustainable,so you will have one of these three situations
1) a guy without IS that is useless for inside tactics offensively,so you are forced to play only with outside tactic,that are actually less efficient than inside tactics(and with the prediction system you are fucked out anyway because your adversary can predict your offense)
2) a guy without ID that can't defend inside tactics even having SB,since ID is still the main defensive skills against shots near the rim
3) a guy without Reb that would give multiple 2nd chances to the adversaries, even with 2-3 zone in, so even if you lower the percentage of your adversary, he will still gets points on 2nd chances

Train SB give the lowest performance for salary dollar among the big man skills, so people don't train SB

Salary change can help on JR training,that's for sure,but still outside tactics remains less efficient than LI, so there will be a minor shift


Last edited by Steve Karenn at 9/22/2013 7:35:59 AM

The salary formula changed, so there will be a new allocation of skills ;) It's as easy as it sounds.

To have high SB to be capable to put out a 2-3 defense, you got to sacrifice one of the three main skills for the big man(IS,ID,Reb), since a big man with all the 4 skills high are not sustainable

Didn't someone say that in addition to the salary tweak the potential formula was also changed? I think it should be possible to train a C with four decent core skills if that was true. 4x15 is doable with an MVP player under the old salary formula, maybe with the recent change this can be done with a superstar potential dude too?

The salary formula changed, so there will be a new allocation of skills ;) It's as easy as it sounds.

It will still not be the most efficient strategy to allocate resources on SB ;) It's easy as it sounds

Last edited by Steve Karenn at 9/22/2013 7:46:19 AM

Indeed, if you want to continue to play MtM, remaining unable to defend LI, and love to have guards driving through your defense every game ;)

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 9/22/2013 7:56:49 AM

Hi,

Will the prediction of defense change apply for NTs as well ? Small nations like mine have mainly big men. It is already very difficult to compete against bigger nations so if our opponents can predict our tactic and get a bonus for it, it is gonna be worse...

Thank you

Indeed, if you want to continue to play MtM, remaining unable to defend LI, and love to have guards driving through your defense every game ;)

Just like what happened last season when you assured than with SB changes the situation with LI dominance would have changed, and then the situation didn't change much, right? ;)
The difference will now be that instead of seraching big man with Sb as low as possible, people can start to change guys with 9-10-11 SB now that his weight on salary has been greatly decreased

Interesting, it seems that africans like big men...

But the point i've made still remains. With your guards you're as predictable as i am, don't you ?