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If my enthusiasm is already at fanatical, obsessed or unstoppable (the higher ratings), then does it make sense to play CT at all if I wanted to? Would CT put my enthusiasm even beyond unstoppable for example? Or in this case, simply playing Normal would be sufficient?

Thanks guys!

Last edited by BasketballIQ at 8/8/2014 9:14:05 PM

Crunch time just means they will play even harder and better. But your enthusiasm will drop after the game. So to answer your question, if you think you can win without playing crunch time, then do normal but if not, pick crunch time.

Using a CT will cut your enthusiasm in half, no matter how high it is. If the enthusiasm level is that high, you should be fine using a Normal.

I'm assuming you mean Take it Easy if you want to increase your enthousiasm. I don't think it has that much use if you have higher than 10 enthousiasm, as the regular drop towards 5 is pretty big at that point and playing TIE won't affect it all that much. Playing Crunch Time would severely hurt your enthousiasm rating, so I don't think it's worthwhile at that point, so playing normal is advisable I think.

Just remember that Effort and Enthusiasm are actually two seperate (but related) concepts. They also (anecdotal) have different impacts to different parts of the game.

Effort is what your team will put in for that particular game .

Enthusiasm is based on previous games effort. More effort in previous games results in lower enthusiasm moving forward.

SO if your team's Enthusiasm is 5, if you put in Crunch Time Effort, it doesn't actually 'magically' make your enthusiasm 7 or 8.
HOWEVER, what most people do, is in order to measure the equivilant effect of Effort on a game, they talk about it in terms of a resultant Enthusiasm value.
This isnt strictly true, but it does help give you a measure of what your team is going to be capable of and a bit of a formulae for working out how good your team is going to be.

As i mentioned previously, there is anecdotal evidence floating around the traps that suggests that Effort and Enthusiasm result in different impact to your team. From what I can remember, Enthusiasm makes your team better overall (eg: A bit like Game shape on individual players).
Whilst it is believed that Effort will increase specific items more than other items. Fouling, rebounding, aggresiveness, stealing etc.

Generally ive noticed games where I CT, the guys do foul a bit more, crash the boards a bit more, get more steals, and there is probably some negative to this as well.

So yer. hope this helps.

Thanks for all the replies.

I was not concerned with enthusiasm dropping by 1/2 after I CT. I wanted to know if my enthusiasm rating is already at obsessed or fanatical, and I really want to win a particular game, and I play CT, if my team will play that much better that game or the play won't be that different for that game if I normal it (since enthusiasm rating is already so high).

Hope that makes sense.

coach

regarding effort-----what does _____ team seems like the only one trying out there? is it your team on CT and your opponent as TIE?

Last edited by abu at 8/14/2014 12:34:24 PM

enthu is just that, it wont make then play any better per say, this depend on your skills of your players and other factors.

Now don't get it confused they will play harder but its not like it assumed as in "run them off the floor mentality", Player skills make difference too and other factors. It can be the highest set of enthu but if the skills are awful in every slot , I Think you can figure out the rest.

Last edited by Mr. Glass at 8/14/2014 1:03:59 PM

Yes the team that's trying used CT and the other team used TIE.

Yes thats correct.

to jeroebendar and coach regan, thanks a lot