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LP - inside, normal

Princeton - inside/outside, slow

And what about Princeton? Inside-Outside focus, really?

According to the Game Manual, the pace of LP is a bit decreased. I should know this, because I've used it quite frequently. As for Princeton, you should ask this guy (30851). He runs Princeton exclusively and could probably clear up some of the confusion associated with it.

Princeton is exceptionally slow. I think the game manual's description of inside/outside focus is pretty accurate - guys will definitely take open inside shots or drives early if they get them, and they'll gleefully jack up three point shots any time. I have noticed anecdotally that among the big men, my better inside scorer seems to do much better when facing an outside defense and the better outside shooter tends to do better vs. the man to man.

This is some kind of the mess now. So now BB is forcing users to choose non-dominant strategies instead of fixing them. BB was on the the right track, by increasing SB effects and decreasing salaries, but they had to go even further and should have reduced effects of OD. Now you see often how SG with pretty decent JS and JR are shooting 10-20% from outside because opponent has players with lvl 20 OD. So now what can we expect, to crush these outside players even more if we guess tactics right and reduce outside shooting to 5-10%?

Last edited by Ghost Master at 11/10/2013 3:29:55 AM

Its politics...

There have been brought up logical solutions for all the problems in this game - by the wrong people... And thats why we still get to read the same old "Its not broken, youre doing it wrong"-mantra to explain the errors of this game.

If my opponent chooses a "somewhat" slow offense and I choose slow defensive focus, will it be somewhat helpful or what?

I'm personally on a long term project (for fun) to develop some 40% three-point shooting

The only way I see this happening is getting someone to JS/JR 18+ and then dropping down to div III. Or lower. It would be interesting to see if a complete junk team guesses your exact offensive/flow strategy, and that 18/18 guy shoots 10%.

Last edited by Kumiko (CAN U21) at 11/10/2013 7:39:00 AM

my friend has a 45 percent 3pt shooting with around 14 js 11jr against league average od something like 9-10 so basicly if league 1 average od is like 18 on pg-sf spot then you need like 20 20 to shot like 40 percent:D

WHat i have noticed if i face equal Od like my outside shooting rating i shot 25 percent, this should be 33 percent then JS would be worth efforts. now you will never get ppp over ,75 with outside shooting against decent defence and for 40 percent you need 1,2 ppp twice as much as you could get now. but atleast 33percent should be decent it would be like 1 ppp i think average eficiency is like 1,05 ppp in bb atleast in leagues iv played. And IS same rating against ID rating is like again 1,1 ppp, so whgat to choose? 0,75 or 1,1 ? Thats why LI dominates. You need higher skills to run outside higher skills summ, higher salary. I think the only real solution to engine is to tweak back the tweaked OD rating.

The funny thing is i manage to get average like 0,9 ppp runing outside tactics with average 14js 8,5jr on all my 5 guys while i can manage to get 0,85 ppp with like 7,5 IS average lol. is it fair? FLow doesnt count forget this argument i have flow higher than league average OD strong (low) at starting five passing 14 14 10 10 15

Last edited by Gajus Julijus Cezaris at 11/10/2013 9:32:17 AM

Hopefully we will have this feature in PL also, and not only in scrimmages where it's completely useless since 99% of the time you're playing with scrubs and not your actual line-up...

you mean like testing for sb changes?

any testing should be for pl because:

1. weak scrim lineups
2. strong teams still in cup cannot test

Yes that's exactly what I mean

Hopefully we will have this feature in PL also, and not only in scrimmages

Hopefully, they will remove this feature completly from the whole game.
I'm completely appalled to see the developers loosing their time working on such poorly inspired development. It feels so wrong both from the thematic and gameplay perspectives.

If I wanted more guessing in a game, I would look for one of the numerous online Poker games.

Building a team for a specific strategy is not only fun and interesting and, it also has a very strong connection with real life team sports. Where coaches and players would rather put their pride in outplaying the opposition with their favourite strategy rather than faking and gambling to play a strategy opposite to their philosophy and skills.

History of basketball is full of teams that made a lasting legacy using specific tactics.
There is allready enough means to try to suprise the opponent with the current choices possibilities. Just make some under used tactics more interesting.

If I wanted more guessing in a game, I would look for one of the numerous online Poker games.

And if all you're doing is guessing playing poker, I'd love to play you.

Building a team for a specific strategy is not only fun and interesting and, it also has a very strong connection with real life team sports. Where coaches and players would rather put their pride in outplaying the opposition with their favourite strategy rather than faking and gambling to play a strategy opposite to their philosophy and skills.

And their opponents "guessed" they were going to play these tactics almost every time and specifically prepared for them. The fact is, that didn't matter much because such teams are that dominant. Nothing seems to indicate that won't be true here either.