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Has anyone else suffered a significant drop in production at the shooting guard position of late? Were there changes made to the engine that I didn't catch a post about at some point? Is there some sort of age or hidden "form" stat or something?

In a nutshell, my shooting guard has dropped from a 30 point a game average to approximately 5 points a game for the last month. Regardless of the caliber of team I am playing against, he has become pure garbage. It doesn't get better or worse with tactics changes ... he's just always terrible. I've done nothing this season but put more talent around him and he's forgotten how to play. If I play him as a backup with the coach picking from depth chart, he gets 40 mins in lieu of my starter and stinks up the joint. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

Sorry I 'm too lazy to check, but if his practice this week is low there is your reason. Is he getting more than 90 or less than 48 minutes a week?

I think your right, my shooting guard went from almost making the national team at 26.2ppg last year to almost getting benched on my team this year at 15.0 ppg.

Edited by packer_22 (1/3/2008 11:14:54 PM CET)

Last edited by packer_22 at 1/3/2008 11:14:54 PM

I take it you're talking about Kimbrough (859410)? There are a number of possibilities (and game shape doesn't appear to be one of them).

He may have just had a few lucky games at the start of the season against inferior defenders. When he showed up on the league leaders board as averaging 30ppg, other teams started defending him better. Looking at the ratings for a number of the games, however (I checked about a dozen or so) this doesn't really seem to be the case, and this just prompts questions from me.

1. He's 28. Are you training him? (it appears you're training C/PF, but you have a team full of very young guys, so I had to ask)
2. You've improved other parts of your team via transfers. Are those guys taking the scoring opportunities away from Kimbrough?
3. He turns the ball over quite a bit and has virtually no assists based on his minutes played and the fact that he's a guard. I'm guessing his passing sucks. Is it possible that such a player is forced to shoot lousy shots by the game engine because he simply does not have the skills to get the ball to the open man?
4. From what I can tell the only changes you made to your offense were switching from playing Motion all the time to occasionally playing Patient or Push the Ball, and lately only playing Base Offense. Have you tried playing an inside game at all? Your inside ratings seem decent, is there a possibility that something like Princeton could open up the outside for better shots?
5. Is your PG finding far more (and better) opportunities to score?
6. There was a suggestion by someone in this forum (Riceball I think) that players may have a hidden "personality". Kimbrough may very well just be a showboat. And since I didn't end this part with interrogative punctuation, I'll do that....here?
7. Have changes made to the game engine made it harder for distance shooters (PG/SG/SF) to hit their shots?

That's all I can come up with. I'm as curious about this as you are, as I have a SF who is going through a similar rough patch scoring-wise.

1. He's 28. Are you training him? (it appears you're training C/PF, but you have a team full of very young guys, so I had to ask) No I'm not training him. I just kept him around because his numbers were phenomenal.

2. You've improved other parts of your team via transfers. Are those guys taking the scoring opportunities away from Kimbrough?He's still taking about 14 shots from the field a game and making 1-2 of them. Jacking up around 10 3-PTrs a game and making 1-2.

3. He turns the ball over quite a bit and has virtually no assists based on his minutes played and the fact that he's a guard. I'm guessing his passing sucks. Is it possible that such a player is forced to shoot lousy shots by the game engine because he simply does not have the skills to get the ball to the open man?Yes, his passing is pitiful, but it was never an issue earlier on.

4. From what I can tell the only changes you made to your offense were switching from playing Motion all the time to occasionally playing Patient or Push the Ball, and lately only playing Base Offense. Have you tried playing an inside game at all? Your inside ratings seem decent, is there a possibility that something like Princeton could open up the outside for better shots?Don't read into it too much. i was running motion back when he was scoring all those points and I've been trying different formations to try and find something that works while I TiE til the playoffs.

5. Is your PG finding far more (and better) opportunities to score?Yes probably ... i recently moved some guys around to get a better shooter in there to make up for Kimbrough

6. and 7. are the types of things I'm wondering about. I mainly just want some sort of explanation that tells me whether or not this is something that will work itself out or if I'm just wasting minutes having this guy on my team now for some reason.

He's generally playing about 80-85 a week, though I'm trying to lower that.