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DMI is useless to compare players as they are heavily influenced by gameshape. It doesn't mean anything that you have a 24k DMI player.

The draft is also NOT luck unless of course you are in a league of bot teams. With the right amount of information, you can grab a better player than another team that lack information on the player.

Well in that case it seems most likely that you did not set your draft order properly. If you have information on a player that has 5 skill balls and another with 2 skill balls, why would you draft a 2 skill ball player over him?? The difference between the two players is that 5 skill ball player have more skills at respectable. Also, by scouting a guy twice you know just how good the 5 ball player is be it a A+,A or A- and also giving you information on his potential, again giving you more information on the player for you to make a decision. I don't see how this information is "somewhat useless" as it is the difference between drafting a player of over a million in value and a guy not even transferable on the market....

Again you refer to DMI. It is called the Deliberately Meaningless Index for a reason. You can't compare players with it. It is misleading to try gauge how good/bad a player is by looking at DMI as a player in really crap game shape will have bad DMI but his skills might be better than everyone on the team.

If DMI had absolutely no point, why is it there?

even the game manual says DMI is a lot less meaningful than it first appears, so you shouldn't mislead newbies with such referrals.

I like to determine some players by game shape. If someone has bad game shape, I usually put them on the backups. It is how they did in practice, and will make them perform better on the court.

am I getting it wrong or you say game shape is about how players did in practice? if so you are wrong cause GS is about the minutes, not practice or training.

but, unrelated to the topic, as he mentioned, DMI does give information and gameshape does influence performance in a game a lot
a 15k proficient game shape player can play a better game than a 25k salary respectable game shape one
of course if one has 15k and the other 75k it doesn't make that much a difference

GS effects the performance, we all know that.But when someone says game shape is about how players did in practice I am not buying that.

right, that's absolute rubbish, but hey, that's our Shaq))

it is not an indicator of how effective his training sessions were. Did u read that part shaq training isn't affected by game shape.

Last edited by aussie dude at 12/28/2009 7:04:17 PM