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Maybe. I'm just explaining the BB reasoning behind the height/skill relationship.

You may be right, i don't know. But since height is given in the XML file, i don't see a problem to implement it and that's what i'm asking for. You got your opinion and you are free to use height for formulas or just let it be...

Edited by DonFelipe (08.02.2008 19:21:18 CET)

Last edited by DonFelipe at 2/8/2008 7:21:18 PM

I think you misunderstood me. I don't care whether or not you use height in your formulas. Whatever makes you happy. I posted in response to an inaccurate piece of information that claimed the game engine took height into account.

Get a random 2.20 guy off the street and play him against a 1.80 who has trained professionally for, say, 10 years. You'd be surprised what the results will be.

Okey but you take 1.80 with lvl 7blocks ant 2.20 lvl7 blocks... thats mean they both are trained... and if height doesn`t metter that means game engine could do that 1.80 could give maybe 3-5 blocks to 2.20 player... If I would ever saw that in real Basketball mach I could agree with you...

And I have skill`s in basketball... my height is 1.74 and if you put me against 2.20 man he even if not trained would give me at least one block... he just need put his arms up and that would be hard enouth for me to score...

All I wanna say that when there are same skills height of player must give him advantage... sure not big but some...

sure I made some mistakes so sorry for that....

Actually, the sign of a good rebounder is when he picks up the ball from the floor. It's called boxing out. If you seal your man well enough far enough from the basket, you might be 5'10 and it wouldn't matter.

Actually I`m not talking about rebounding... coz reabounding depends on where the ball will fall... I`m talking about blocking, scoring and allso defense...

Just maybe allone in Lithuania understand Basketball diferent then other people in the World...

This is how BB has implemented height:

A skill in BB is not relative to height, but absolute. So a 5'6 player who has a 48 inch vertical jump, knows how to box out, has strong hands and arms might have a similar rating to a 7'4 guy who is lifting weights so he can hold his arms over his head and started playing BB a month ago. They have roughly the same chance of grabbing the rebound (at least to the game engine). This simplifies the game engine to consider one factor vs. two factors.

When assigning skills, height is likely to be taken into account, but that just means that a larger percentage of 7'4 players will start with respectable rebounding, and very few 5'6 guys.

There is a difference in training speed based on height. This is also somewhat realistist. Our 5'6 player has probably maxed out his rebounding potential. He can't jump much higher, etc. But the 7'4 guy can improve. He might learn to jump a bit, and his timing, boxing out, positioning can improve.