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I just got done coaching a team ina tourney, we won two games today and have two tomorrow.

Knowing, guessing and preparing for a teams tactics does in fact happen and help in RL bball. At different levels, different tactics are better. so it can be guessed the most likely, but not 100%...

If you guess wrong and prepare wrong, or they pull out something you rarely see and haven't prepared (like certain zone style..box 1, zone press vs. full press, etc etc....different types of offence.... yo ucan get burned.

I think this new feature adds heaps of realism and a layer of interesting depth to the game play...we shall see as they roll it out though.

for the first time in bb history, i agree with you

When you guess/prepare right you use the right tactics to beat your opponent ? refs don't give you one more player on offense ?
Why give a bonus when a good GE should be enough ? You know your opponent will play LI you use 2-3 defense and you hope your defense will be good enough to stop him. Not pray to have a little bonus to change the game.

I must say I'm a huge fan of the transfer list and injury reports that have been added! I've been hoping to see something like that for a while, and glad I don't have to click on each team to see what players they have for sale anymore.

Yes, the new league overview is great.

When you guess/prepare right you use the right tactics to beat your opponent ? refs don't give you one more player on offense ?
Why give a bonus when a good GE should be enough ? You know your opponent will play LI you use 2-3 defense and you hope your defense will be good enough to stop him. Not pray to have a little bonus to change the game.

Here's a little tip:
Don't use 2-3 to defend against an inside offense - it does approximately the same job as a M2M (bar blocking shenanigans on your part).
Use 2-3 if you want a rebounding advantage and don't have to fear an outside offense from your opponent.

About this tactic predicting bonus thing:

Since everyone is playing LI, everyone will predict that his opponent will play LI, so no bonus will be granted :)

Reducing salaries in JR and SB is not an actual tweak, it's a gentle way to tell users to start training SB and play outside tactics. Salarywise outside tactics can be as effective as inside oriented ones. But no one has big guys with 2 ΙS and 16 REB, ID (check his salary). On the other hand, many teams have players with even atrocious JR and play inside tactics hence they have low salary teams (myself included).

I like the changes (except that prediction bonus thing, this is just a joke that punishes teams), I don't like the reasons that caused them. I believe BB's should be more strict in not changing the game because spoiled users, supporters, customers are flooding the forums. They could hint them what to do and not change the game. The tactics are fine, the users don't know what each tactic does and how it is countered. I hope some changes will be just a placebo.

You don't think real teams to this? Guess the opponents game plan and plan to stop it?

Guess the opponents game plan and plan to stop it?

Yeah, this thing exists IRL. It's called defensive tactics and not fortune telling.