BuzzerBeater Forums

Just watch a few high school and college games and you'll see a "lesser" game with more foul-prone players.

Is it that the younger players are more foul-prone or is it that the NBA officials don't call a tight game? Maybe both, but how many times have you seen traveling (not a foul) and charges go uncalled that in "lesser" games would get called every time.

Also, NBA players seem to rake up a lot more technical fouls....but I think that's probably due to their entitled attitude.

I brought this issue up several seasons ago...I think when I looked into it, it seemed like fouls were about 20% less in buzzerbeater than the nba. I think making this number closer to the nba average would make the game better -- teams would need to suit up more players (as pointed out above) requiring more depth and also, it would encourage the training of another skill (foul shooting). Plus, foul shooting is fan-tastic!

I'd expected something else in this thread. More about the last minute, or should I say second.

To me it's unreal that when the clock is at 0 sec the team trying to catch up is still making that foul. Ok the game is lost anyway, so what do the 2 extra points mean??

it could mean a lot at the end of the season. In this game HCA is so important that those few extra FTs at the end can mean a diffrence.

I know a lot of effort has been put into the last minute, but it's still far away from ideal.

Also when you see a team come back 6 points without the leading team scoring, this run suddenly changes when the fouls get made. If the team is onmy 4 points behind with 45 seconds to play, don't foul yet, as the opponent didn't score the last minute and might not now. Chances are higher you will catch up if you don't change the current run, by handing them points from FTs where they struggled to make a field goal... Okay, if they DO score the field goal, that is ugly, but still I think you have a better chance to win.

Late game fouling is really ridiculous...
Fouling a guy with 00:00 left on the clock when game is tied is really smart!
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/15696066/reportmatch.aspx?realTime=2870

Not all players are smart. Some of them may be really stupid.

Are you suggesting Intelligence should be another skill? How would you train that one? Set an age minimum for BB players so that they have to play a year of college first? And what would happen if somebody noticed that players from some countries tended to have higher or lower Intelligence than players from other countries? The controversy that would ensue could rip this game apart!

Not all players are smart. Some of them may be really stupid.

Are you suggesting Intelligence should be another skill? How would you train that one? Set an age minimum for BB players so that they have to play a year of college first? And what would happen if somebody noticed that players from some countries tended to have higher or lower Intelligence than players from other countries? The controversy that would ensue could rip this game apart!

We do - we call it experience.

But the other thing that is really stupid is there is one 20 seconds to go, the other team is trying to catch up so they are intentionally fouling and they UTTERLY POLEAXE your player and injure them out for 4 weeks. What would that look like in a real game? Is there any way in a real game that if someone intentionally injured another player it wouldn't be 2 free throws, keep possession and the fouling player ejected? Then you lose the game and the next three or four as well, just beyond belief that such a stupid season destroying thing can happen.