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288425.9 in reply to 288425.8
Date: 7/10/2017 8:40:32 AM
Durham Wasps
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@Gulley: what level of OD did you have at your bigs?

I can't remember specifically how much, but it wasn't as much as you'd expect. I had a rule for every player though, including backups. No less than 7 in any defensive skill. I think maybe one player on the entire squad may have fallen below that. I had the same bigs in D1 as in D2 and I'm fairly certain both were PFs. If I was forced to guess I'd say not less than 8 but no more than 10. Interestingly one of my backups in the Cup Final had higher OD than either of them.

On OD in general what I would say is I'd rather have someone with lower OD who has ID and SB than one with even 20 OD but with low ID and SB.

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288425.11 in reply to 288425.10
Date: 7/10/2017 11:42:25 AM
Durham Wasps
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As long as most of your players have highish stamina you can get away with one or two lower stamina players. I bought players during my time playing fcp and though they must have dropped off a bit as the game went on the high levels of the other players seemed to cover it. I would agree with Nachtmahr though, minimum 7 and ideally you want 9.

Certainly I think you'd walk away with D2 with those levels of skills and certainly be able to compete in D1.

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288425.12 in reply to 288425.11
Date: 7/10/2017 1:23:49 PM
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As long as most of your players have highish stamina you can get away with one or two lower stamina players. I bought players during my time playing fcp and though they must have dropped off a bit as the game went on the high levels of the other players seemed to cover it. I would agree with Nachtmahr though, minimum 7 and ideally you want 9.

Certainly I think you'd walk away with D2 with those levels of skills and certainly be able to compete in D1.


I may have to give it a try in four or five seasons once I've trained the defensive bigs to go with my misfit guards. It'll probably take two full seasons to train the stamina up from negative eleventeen to a high enough value, but FCP is the one time where I'd say having stamina on a player is a benefit rather than a detriment.

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288425.14 in reply to 288425.13
Date: 7/12/2017 2:17:03 PM
Berlin Street Style
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Interesting thread... I'm about to let my team use fcp as the main defense starting next week. Just one more week of stamina training and all starters (and backups) should have at least 8 ST.
I don't have a true C either. Just a bunch of hybrid SF/PF players which make up my front court. OD is no lower than 12. SB/ID is quite high on average as well. I'm really looking forward to see the results.

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288425.15 in reply to 288425.1
Date: 7/25/2017 4:12:38 PM
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Although I wasn't planning to use FCP until the next season because of the need of some stamina training, today I decided to use it against an opponent that has very low offensive flow: (96980531)

Here are my implications:

1) I think with 80-90% probability, I would win this match if I used a normal tactic. But I don't think I would win that easily. The match was already over at the end of first half.

2) Opponent had 32 turnovers!

3) My starting 5 had around level 5 stamina and my ratings were devastated. But ratings of my opponent were also devastated as a result of FCP.

4) My SB skills are nothing special but I didn't see any positive total blocked shots in that match.

All in all, I'm happy with what I saw in that specific match. I should be ready to use it regularly after 1 all star break + 2 off-season stamina trainings.

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288425.17 in reply to 288425.16
Date: 7/25/2017 6:20:32 PM
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Ratings are lower because your starters played fewer minutes. Worse players on court gives worse ratings.


That's also a factor but it should be a minor one. Because there are not much difference between my starters and bench players.

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