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As crazy as it sounds, it looks like 3-2 lowers the OD rating instead of increasing it, at least visually.

Is there any further development on this? I play 3-2 a lot and am certain that the rating final team rating is off as well - playing far inferior OD guards should not net a better OD rating in man-to-man versus superior OD guards in a 3-2 and none of the proffered causes above (e.g., fouls, game shape, etc.) appear to sufficiently explain the differences - I played man to man tonight and received an OD rating that made no sense to me. Since I have not played a lot of man-to-man (and watched such games), I can not judge if the intended boost effect to OD is happening but just not reflected.

Since the rules state: Your team also receives several ratings per match. These team ratings are used in the calculation of what happens each possession. Here is a synopsis:

Outside Scoring, Defense: Both guards weighted heavily, small forward medium, power forward slightly.

Is it using the bugged ratings to configure each possession or the "correct" rating, but somehow presenting it different on the final page?

Last edited by jbmcrock at 6/15/2008 1:00:12 PM

This week I had a good opportunity to provide additional observations on the problems with OD, since the Bulgarian NT had two consecutive games where I wanted to use the same tactic.

The games are as follows: (1547) and (1767). The players are _exactly_ the same, and there have been only minor fluctuations in form. Game 1 uses 3-2, game 2 uses Man to Man.

The result? Outside Defense dropped by 1 sublevel, and Inside Defense rose by 1 full level.

As far as game shape is concerned, our starting PG and starting PF lost a level, and the starting C gained a level. Even with 1 week's worth of defense training going on (and not all of the players trained defense either), it looks like the fluctuations are way too minor to adequately represent the tactical effects.

So is this going to be BB's "Attack on Wings" bug?

For those who don't play Hattrick, after literally years of user complaints about the Attack on Wings tactic likely being broken, and years of official denials that there was anything wrong, it was announced yesterday that there was indeed a bug.

Anyway, it looks to me like the BB's are taking this seriously and not just being dismissive, which is good. And my own guess is that this is presentational only... for example, my perimeter defense rating last game with a 3-2 (6034208) was definitely lower than it should have been, but the opponent's PG and SG matchup ratings were more consistent with a stronger defense.

Serious bug or not, it would be nice if this didn't follow the HT model, and was resolved before 2013.

I don't think they have 8 months of summer holidays here, like it seems like the HTs have.

Either way, it would at least be good to know whether the issue is presentational or not. Up to now, the only thing being said is that the code and the games in question look alright, though there is pretty clear evidence that a problem exists somewhere along the chain of events.

More evidence of problems over here, again in an NT match.

(1553)

Man-to-man defence on normal, no HCA. Outside defence rating: average (medium)

(1557)

3-2 zone on CT, no HCA. MacKissock, starting SG, is 2 visible levels superior in OD than Mancier, who started in the previous game. Outside defence rating: average (low).

I'm convinced there's something gone horribly wrong somewhere. My club team consistently puts up better (much better) defence ratings than my NT in outside, and sometimes inside, defence despite the fact that the NT is staffed with superior defenders. For example, (4430883), a road TIE on high enthusiasm, compared to (1551), a road normal.



Last edited by LA-The Phil at 6/30/2008 4:44:03 PM

Hi guys, I don't look for all examples but I know that there is often an diffenrence into the defense ratings in all and for me it was allways depending on the opponent offense, that was my solution for this different ratings and it was making sense for me because there is really a difference if the opponent has an really better Outside Offense than mine Outside Defense than my Outside Defense player are dont looking well and can not do this job so good like against an weak Outside Offense.

Serious bug or not, it would be nice if this didn't follow the HT model, and was resolved before 2013.

Yay, looks like it was resolved before 2009 (barely) (66639.7), although the posts here in the Bugs forum didn't seem to do any good it getting the matter attention from anyone who could help.