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PG draftee and veteran positions changed to PF and SF

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290713.7 in reply to 290713.6
Date: 11/13/2017 1:27:27 PM
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Seems odd to take time out of your day to act so snooty and not actually provide any real information. I understand how the training works. I am simply curious as to why I received a PG with MVP potential in the draft and a week or two later his position was suddenly listed as SF. It doesn't seem like there was any reason to change his position designation and I still haven't heard a reason why this happened. All the best!


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290713.8 in reply to 290713.7
Date: 11/13/2017 2:40:20 PM
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From the Game Manual http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/rules.aspx?nav=Rost... (emphasis mine):
When you link to a different team's roster from their home page, you'll see only each players weekly salary, age, height, and best position.


When Burks was drafted, the game took a look at his skill distribution and determined that the "best position" for his current skill set at that point in time was PG. However, you then proceeded to give him further training and improved his skill set from pops he received from training. Every time training is run, the game looks again at his skill distribution and determines what the "best position" is for his current skill set. Because of training he received (I am assuming he increased one of his ID/IS/RB/SB skills) the game determined that his "best position" to play him would be PF.

This "best position" is simply Buzzerbeater's way of looking at a player's skill set and making a suggestion about where they might fit into the team and where it might be best to play them. This is beneficial to opposing managers to help give an indication of what kind of skills a certain player might have. If I were to be scouting your team and see that Burks is listed as a PF, then that would be an indication to me that his inside skills on average might be higher than his outside skills. Additionally, since he is listed at PF and not C, that would imply to me that he has more outside skills than a player which would be listed as a C. As there are no benefits from or requirements to play Burks at his listed "best position" (which changed from PG to PF), there is no impact to your team's performance or training due to this change.

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290713.9 in reply to 290713.8
Date: 11/13/2017 3:02:14 PM
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Thank you for your thorough explanation.

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290713.10 in reply to 290713.7
Date: 11/13/2017 5:52:45 PM
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Seems odd to take time out of your day to act so snooty and not actually provide any real information.


Yeah, I know. I tried to say it in a way that sounded as less snooty as possible while still being completely honest. I thought the help forums would have been a more appropriate place for the discussion, didn't mean to intentionally withhold any real information. Rufus explained it better than I could have anyway