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This is very helpful, and the linkage you made with pace (slow-paced strategies) makes sense to me.

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Yes, I think I understand what you're getting at. And Rebounding is really an interesting rating, since it appears to compound a separate offensive and defensive component. I've been wondering for a while how to discriminate them. Since there are more defensive than offensive rebounds in contention (but is this true?), it seems wrong to just split the visible rating in halves. How should one do this then?

Great question. I also think about this myself. My opinion is that, ratingwise, it's impossible to tell where OR rating stops and DR rating begins. Though I do believe that your team is in contention of every rebound, so it should break down even the amount of OR and DR you're in contention (obviously this is only true in games with equal amount of shots from both sides, but it should be similar in balanced games, I suppose)

I also used to believe that defensive tactics don't influence offensive ratings and vice versa, but I'm no longer convinced this is true.

Well, I still believe in that, haven't seen enough evidence the other way...
In my case, I usually have a very strong defense (best in LN last season and this season so far) and a very week offense. But I atribute this to the fact that I hardly ever play fast-paced strategies (my stamina just isn't that good and my bench sucks, so...), so, in this case, my offensive strategy influences both the amount of points I make and the amount of points I take by influencing the quantity of shots I take and my opponent takes. The quality of my shots are influenced because of other particularities of each strategy, but that's not the reason why I don't score many points.

My experience as a newer player could be quantified more like this.

If I play man-to-man and average Inept (High) perimeter, when I play 3-2, it is around Mediocre (medium) and 1-3-1 is Mediocre(high). Roughly comparable, 3-2 is a 15-20% increase and 1-3-1 is a 20-25% increase. The inverse applies to the ratings for inside and defense though.

So, as stated above, do your scouting, figure out how your inside players matchup to his.

Also, in a 1-3-1 defense, the 4 position plays at the top of the key, so his Outside Defense score contributes some to the team ratings, while in 3-2, it does not. Depending on your need to shut down the opponent's outside game, you can play the defense that best fits your PF player.

Granted, I play in Div IV and my competition's not comparable to the talent on my team, but I am willing to give one player of the opponents an easier time scoring while shutting down 2 or 3 of his other players. That is a trade-off I am willing to make.