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Thank you again for the nice post.

I am not sure if you guys aware of one thing.
BB announced that the game engine will be modified to reduce the strength of the unbalanced inside attack tactics. Although the new game engine supposes to be used in scrimmages only, I found that my new reinforcement, (8883587), had 10 blocks in the previous two games (and my team made 29 blocks in total!). Originally I thought it was the game shape issue. However, the Officials' bigs seemed not have this problem and my bigs are not in their best shapes as well. If the increased block rate is not an "accident", I think those LI teams might want to change their tactics soon......

Last edited by Dino Boy at 5/22/2013 2:20:50 PM

A couple things about the new game engine...

Yes, from all accounts it should only be implemented in scrimmages and PLs, so those block performances should not reflect a change in the GE. I'd be interested to see where those blocks game from as well - their bigs? guard's drives? defending outside? I'd also be interested to know your new guy's SB rating, and compare that to IS of who you were going against (it looks like one game was against Smedlock's trainee, which could explain some of it).

I've actually had better performance in my PL (with the new GE) with my LI offense than in this league. It's my opinion that while the change to make shot blocking more important will eventually even out the LI dominance, it may take a little while. If shot blocking becomes more important in defending the inside game, it could make a LI offense even more successful if the defender's shot blocking skill isn't very good. For example, if a 15 IS goes up against a 6 SB, what do you think will happen? There are countless bigs who have ignored shot blocking altogether, so until their SB catches up, you may see LI be just as dominant in certain matchups.

What I think the change does more is make it more difficult to create LI monsters, which will even the playing field. It's been too easy to focus on only IS, ID, and REB for a successful big, while successful guards need OD, PA, HDN, DRI, and JS/JR if you're running an outside offense. The addition to SB in the training plans will slow the rate of IS being trained, thus making it less dominant.

Just my opinion.

Sorry to randomly butt in here, but I'm nearly 100% certain that the new GE is only running in scrimmages, not PLs

(which of course, doesn't make a lot of sense, given that scrimmages all sorts of weird players and matchups are happening)

You might be right. The initial Welcome to Season 23 news story mentioned both scrimmages AND PLs to have the new GE, but it doesn't mention that in the more recent story in May. I think I assumed.

Yea, the scrimmage thing will likely tell us nothing about the new GE. Oh well. I'm still holding on to my theory for a little while.

He was not guarding Eclypze's trainee but his 59K PF, which has 11 IS. He averagely has 1.1 blocks and my team has 7.1 blocks. Comparing to the numbers they made in the previous two games, it was too crazy. That's why I can not find any better explanation if that was not because of the new GE.
(I am sorry that I am not able to tell you his attributes, as he was originally hired to against your and Hawks' bigs and his has not done his job yet)

"New North Star is relegating. Too bad you don't get a shot at a relegation series, because you are better than your record indicates. You just fell into the better conference of a very tough league."

Thank you for your evaluation. I think I will be come back to D.III soon.

2 million? I doubt he will be worth that much? He is really short too. What do his skills look like?

2 million? I doubt he will be worth that much? He is really short too. What do his skills look like?

Why would short matter? He's already 22, so unless all of his training is going to be inside, it's not much of an issue.