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Hello all....I am very confused about the player rating in the box score after a game. In reading the Game Manual, it says that the rating isn't about the skill of the player, rather its about the players contribution to the game....as an example it says that if your worst player has the biggest impact on the game, his rating will be the highest.

I am not seeing that at all. Last week I had a player get a triple double, shot 50% for the game, filled the stat line with blocks, steals, assists etc. His rating was the 2nd lowest on my team. By contrast I had a guy who only played 7 minutes, went 0-5 shooting, one board, one assist, and his rating was higher, and good infact. I don't get it.

Also, my ratings are always between 4.0 and 8.0. I am in level 5, not sure if that has anything to do with it. But i was checking out the box scores for some other games this past week, and I saw in the upper level leagues, where all the ratings were 12.5-14.5 etc. The thing is, even guys in their game that had terrible stats like the guy I mentioned above, 6 minutes, 0-2 shooting, no assists, 1 rebound...had a 12.5 rating.

How exactly does the rating system work, and is it similar to DMI, does it just not mean a whole lot? Thanks for your input!

Last edited by Jason at 5/6/2010 5:28:37 AM

Defence is a big part of the rating.

So lets consider 2 players, Player A and Player B.

Player A has sensational OD and respectable JS and JR.
Player B has tremendous JS and JR but has mediocre OD.
All other skills are the same.

If you are looking at the box score, then player B is going to probably score a lot more points than player A. Assists, turnovers, rebounds, etc are all going to be similar as the other skills are the same.
However, defence isn't a coloumn. So the player rating takes defence in to account. Player B might score 50 points in the game but perhaps whoever he was defending also got 50 points because Player B has bad defence. So Player B will have a low rating. On the contrary, player A might score 12 points, but because he is such a good defender he only lets his opponent score 8 points. So his rating will be higher.

Make sense? :)

Yes, that makes sense :-)

Thank you for your response :-)

So, with that in mind...Do you indeed place a high value in the player rating then as an actual barometer of each players impact that game?

I think the player ratings are important, but then again I think defence is very important. I think high ratings are a good indication that the player is contributing a lot to your team.