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Cooooooooool! Nice stats.

Yes i cant believe i totally forgot about bonus free throw shots that happen when the other team has too many fouls. TOooooootally forgot about that. I feel ashamed to call myself a basketballer!

Yer those R-squared values are quite low, although our samples sizes are probably a bit too small for that kind of analysis. Maybe if i had a full year of data, plus satgnent FT levels all year, but at this stage it is looking like its pointing towards no correlation.

Which i agree, i remember when i used to play basketball, and we had aguy who would not miss from the line, we would just set him up to get fouled as often as possible driving to the ring etc. So it was a deliberate tactic, and i know players in the NBA go for that, someone like Dirk nowitzki definately does that. So maybe Buzzerbeater should do this?

i actually think it does, but maybe not all game. Liike the GM says, when you watch the game when there is bonus situation and its close, not only do good FT shooters tend to go to the line more, but also i think to some degree, that the coach sub's some of the better FT players on, dependant upon the situation. So maybe the game engine only takes this into account in this special circumstance?

one reason for the slight correlation might be that the FT skill is higher for older players in general, as are the other skills... so trainees might distort the picture.

Hey guys, good discussion, some interesting ideas coming out here.

To the poster who said 'older players' i can only assume that you actually meant players with higher experience will get more FT's per FGA.
To which i say, probably! Experience is this engima-type skill, which, is probably implemented a lot simpler than what most people would believe! But i do believe that experience has some kind of effect on this ratio.

As for driving, thats an interesting comment. Im not sure. I certainly don't disagree, I quickly analysed it same way i did with FT rating, and essentially its a worse 'direct' relationship between Driving and FTA.

But again, im only looking at my team, whom i mainly play an inside offence, so it could very well be different for a team who plays outside offence. I have a feeling the number of factors are large. Depends on opponents defense, defensive skills of individual opponents, your offense, game situation etc etc. in which case you would need a very large pool of players and data to really analyse this properly, all of which i just dont have. So no biggy.
I think in the end, its probably more related to, as you said, the hidden physicality trait that is within the game that people talk about. And its probably multiplied by a factor of X, by other stats, including Driving, FT, IS, Experience, etc etc.