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From: D.Kou
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10896.1
Date: 12/28/2007 3:52:17 PM
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why PG would change to SF after training? And sometimes PG to SG?
Especially for 180cm's PG changing to SF...
will appreciate your answers, thx.


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10896.2 in reply to 10896.1
Date: 12/28/2007 4:41:54 PM
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This is MY theory, and I don't know if it's true, but it seems logical to me:

I think every position has a formula whichj uses a factor for each skill. Depending on the position some skills tend to get more important, and get bigger factors.
If you calculate the player for every position, you can see which is the highest result, and according to that, he is given his best position by BB.
Therefor, after training a specific skill, a player might get an other best position...

example:
Let's assume for this example that the PG's most important skills are passing, handling, outside defense and driving.
And a SF's most important are jump shot, passing, handling and driving.
3 of the skills are the same, and the player is good in all tree, and he's also prety good in handling, so the result of the calculations of the 5 positions is in favor of the point guard, but the result for SF is only a little lower.
After training jump shot ( the factor for the SF for his jumpshot weighing more heavely than for the point guard) the result of the calculation for the SF might become slightly higher than for the PG, making him a SF all of a sudden....

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10896.3 in reply to 10896.2
Date: 12/28/2007 5:44:03 PM
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I think you are close to the truth here, with one big addition:

Height.

In the rules, there is a discussion of 6'4" as being a cutoff point for considering a player 'big' and thereby easier to train in 'big man skills.' I have several tall players whose best skills say 'point guard' but who the game labels as PFs or even C. I play them very successfully at the point. Because they won't train as well as PGs, the game will never (I believe) label them as Magic Johnson size PGs.

How the game chooses the labels among SF, PF and C I don't think I'll ever figure out. As soon as I come up with a theory, I check the transfer list and find numerous contradictions.

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10896.4 in reply to 10896.3
Date: 12/28/2007 5:47:26 PM
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true.

I have an excell file for my own use and even though my calculation does not include height, I also do not put players under 2meters on the center position, no matter how high their 'center-rating' is...
I did put guys which are 2m13 on the SF postion though.

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