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To be honest, I would not have posted this thread in the first place if all of the pieces added up in my mind. Losing is not a problem for me - it was the specific circumstances that perplexed me - a bot 2 levels lower, a Cup game in mid-rounds, an obvious team rating and talent discrepancy, etc.

This really is wrong though and it's been said many times, you're team just wasn't that much better. Get over the 2 levels better/talent discrepancy stuff as is the gap between your two teams just isn't there.

In HT, if you line up two teams with ratings that are mostly "wretched/poor" w/ a couple "weaks" against each other and anything can happen.

... can enyone tell me why?... okay, maybe he is somehow better in FT and a little bit in 3PTs, but I had much MORE better ratings...

FT's stand out, and they had one player that really did damage against you, Miroslav Zak, who hit for 30+ and 5/10 3pts. He was lined up against your player, Norbert Smidl (SF). How is his outside defense?

Smidl´s outside defense is awful :( but he played as shooting guard (SG), not SF... I played Jan Legrand on SF position, who has average outside defense...

right, and the player that lit it up was at shooting guard against your awful outside defender.

Edited by brianjames (12/3/2007 3:47:58 PM CET)

Last edited by brian at 12/3/2007 3:47:58 PM

For the most part, the difference in the ratings were not that great, and with similar ratings the games are going to be very close.

If there was a more extreme gap in the ratings, then you could expect to win just about every one of those games.

The ratings were close enough, however, that an individual performance could end up trumping that, and it appears to be the case.

It is unlucky, of course, and that does suck, but the luck will run in your favor at some point.

OK, now I know why my oponent had about a hundred points, but also all my players have respectable (inside, outside or both) shooting, so I might have had about hundred and fifty points.. maybe it´s just bad luck.. I will have a look at SG with better defense, thanks for answering :)

This really is wrong though and it's been said many times, you're team just wasn't that much better. Get over the 2 levels better/talent discrepancy stuff as is the gap between your two teams just isn't there.

In HT, if you line up two teams with ratings that are mostly "wretched/poor" w/ a couple "weaks" against each other and anything can happen.

When my lowest rating is higher than his highest rating, that's a gap, IMO - in HT it would be like my LOWEST rating being Poor (Medium) and his HIGHEST rating being Poor (Low). That's a significant difference - in a recent HT game I just crushed a bot team 9-0 with a similar gap:

Thunder Road
Midfield disastrous (very high)
Right Defence weak (very low)
Central Defence weak (high)
Left Defence weak (low)
Right Attack poor (very high)
Central Attack poor (high)
Left Attack poor (high)


FC Murph
Midfield disastrous (high)
Right Defence wretched (low)
Central Defence poor (very low)
Left Defence wretched (high)
Right Attack wretched (high)
Central Attack wretched (low)
Left Attack wretched (low)



And I had an average of about 25 points per 100 shots at every position in the matchup ratings. My FG% was quite a bit higher.

He has more free throws but didn't sink any more than I did (I was 13/18 from the line and he was 13/31), and sure he nailed a few 3PGs but 5/21 is hardly a testament of outside strength.