i rely upon BuzzerManager for guidance, and in the past i have found the team ratings to be reliable guides for how my team is performing. but this season, the relationship between getting better ratings and winning has broken down:
against the Cacti, we both got 13.9 game ratings, but my team category ratings were tilted slightly in my favor, 140 - 139. but i got blown out by 14 in the fourth and lost by 12.
against TnT, i made a tactical blunder by calling for a 2-3, and so suffered in the team ratings, 145 - 153. but my players' game ratings were up 15.3 to 14.6, and on the road, too. regardless, never in this one, and lost by 16.
in a private league game, neutral court, won the team ratings 168 -158, the player ratings, 16.5 - 16.1, but lost the game by 10.
finally, on Saturday, had a better team rating than GH, 167 - 163, a better player rating, 16.7 - 15.5, but was never really in the game, outside of a late run, and lost by 13.
my point is not shake my fist at BB gods and demand justice, but to wonder if there is a more recent generation of managers who are running very efficient, very skilled teams whose virtues elude or are otherwise not captured by my tried and true statistical categories.
