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If you have low stamina you really are better off with a slow offence. Otherwise I'd be happy using any offence.

I have at least respectable all the way around but I'm wondering if anyone has had better luck with certain types over other types.

Looking at my games over two seasons its hard to see any offence standing out.

Putting aside the low stamina scenario (which doesn't apply here), generally I'd say that the worse your offensive flow is, the faster you want to run your offense. Of course, there's enough other difference between the slower and faster versions of similar offenses that those differences are worth considering too (especially Patient v. Push the Ball).

Wait...so you think it's inversely proportionate?

Is that because a faster offense uses less passes per possession?

(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/98061028/boxscore.aspx)

Posting this just so you guys can take what you can from it. The guy had a starting 5 much better than mine with a couple 100k players and 3 other studs. I thought that if I played FCP and wore his starters down I might have a chance. I chose the wrong offense since I played into the teeth of his best defensive players, I also used CT against his TIE. If I had chosen an Inside Offense I probably would have won the game as his ID was Proficient while his OD was Prolific. As you can see though, his team wore down by the 2nd half and even my decent backups were able to help a strong push to get back into the game. At Halftime I thought I was dead in the water so losing by 2 was really surprising. I only did this to learn from it and maybe it will help you guys in your thoughts and research.

Last edited by AIRFORCE1 at 8/4/2017 8:21:34 AM

Wait...so you think it's inversely proportionate?

Is that because a faster offense uses less passes per possession?

Something like that. The pace of the offense basically sets the threshhold of how good/bad a shot must be before the player will shoot - so a slow offense will have a higher requirement for the shot and will therefore tend to pass more frequently on shots that might be attempted in a faster offense. When your offense is much better than the opposing defense and you don't have bad offensive flow, even a slow offense will put up a shot relatively quickly, while an outmatched offense will still end up exhausting the shot clock and jacking one up late in a fast offense.

So where flow comes in is that if your team has poor passing, those decisions to keep passing are less likely to create a really good shot but are much more likely to create a turnover. So of course, you may not have good shots, but a bad shot is still a better outcome than a turnover, so you try to force more shots.