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How would more realistic default skills hurt playability and fun? I don't get it.

Starting page says:

Realistic basketball action. Play the most advanced basketball simulation and coaching AI ever released. Watch games live on a state-of-the-art viewer.

So if realism is a goal and sthg. the game boasts about, we should work towards it.

If you aren't training FT at least 1 week a season, I find it hard to consider you to be interested in realism.

If you aren't training FT at least 1 week a season, I find it hard to consider you to be interested in realism.

ONCE a season? I doubt any of the top teams do that. Please prove me wrong

How is that even relevant to the issue of realism?

Having no idea how you define "top teams" it would be impossible for me to prove you wrong. What I can say is if you consider yourself a top team, then I too must be a top team given that we are both in DII of our countries and I am over 9000 places ahead of you in World Rank (a poor metric, I will admit). And yes, I train FT at least once very season. Heck, the schedule is even designed to encourage teams to do team training 1-3 weeks of each season, depending upon their success in their national tournament and in the playoffs.

Iif people want to play the game as a min/max math problem, that's fine with me. But you can't do that and then claim you want something to be realistic. Especially when the only reason the thing you are claiming is not realistic is not, is really due to your own behavior. Train FT once per season and that rookie who starts at atrocious will be up to Shaq, Ben Wallace or DeAndre Jordan levels soon enough.

I train about once per season. As a result, my regular team leads the league in FT% most seasons.
My Utopia team is a different story, as they are homegrown and some started off as Atrocious, but over the past five seasons, training once per season at least, they've climbed to be in the middle of the pack in my league in FT% rank.

Maybe this belongs in Help, but is the Free Throw stat the only thing that affects free throw percentage? My guy with highest FT stat is middle of the pack in terms of completion percentage.

Last edited by Perth at 2/17/2016 10:23:52 PM

Variance I guess.

Maybe this belongs in Help, but is the Free Throw stat the only thing that affects free throw percentage? My guy with highest FT stat is middle of the pack in terms of completion percentage.

It seems that experience and fatigue may play a role in FT shooting.
I once had a reserve player come in during the playoffs and miss four FT in a row, and he was either an 8 or 9 FT shooter, so I chalked it up to his Pitiful experience.

Also, sometimes players just inexplicably are terrible from behind the line for a season, but then recover back to normal the next season.