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ok lemme have a crack at answering this one.

The use of the skill is going to depend on a combination of
a) The position the player is in
b) The offence you have chosen
c) The opposition defense and opposing player.

If you want your guy to play like Kobe - then just play Patient offense. ha..

Ok so driving is what it is. It helps the player Drive! So for an outside player, its his ability to get past the outside defense and into the key.... for an inside player, its his ability to back-down/drive around a defender.

now, depending on the offense you selected, it might be the inside or outside player who utilizes the driving. If your guards are poorer at driving compared to your forwards and you are playing say, low post, then this will probably result in more drives by your forwards.

If your guards are awesome at driving and you are playing say, Look Inside, then you might see a lot more shots from inside the key by your guards.

If a player has equal passing and driving. well... it means that he has the ability to share the ball as well as make his own shot. If driving and passing are equally high, then he has more possibilities when he handles the ball.

so... are you looking for a more Kobe style player?

nope.

If you have an equal passing and driving and you are playing BO and ceteris paribus. What will most likely the player do? or what is the determinant of what will the player do?

ah ok.
so essentially you are asking when everything is equal (or ceteris paribus as you have stated) what is preferred option by the player, driving or passing?

Interesting question.

I would imagine that, in the game engine, mathmatically, they have made it such that this scenario is not possible, because the game engine throws in a 'random number' during its calculations. Therefore the random number create's that point of difference when no other statistic can.

Therefore I would predict that 50% of the time he would drive and 50% of the time he would pass.

So basically, in an attempt to answer your question, If given the perfect scenario where everything is equal, i do not believe that the game engine has something which favours either driving or passing.




Last edited by Coach Regan at 6/9/2014 10:28:55 PM

thanks sir..

but how about if it is not ceteris paribus but the driving and passing are equal, what will the player do? what will be the determinant of his action?

well that's where all the other factors such as opposition OD, defensive settings, offensive settings, etc come into play.

but if you have a high JS and a low driving, will it mean that you will be more of a catch and shoot player?

Oh i thought you were purely talking about Driving versus passing.

OK so if you have a player with both low driving and low passing but high JS (and assume Jump Range), it means two things

a) He cannot create he is own shot.
b) He cannot find another player in good position to pass to.

In theory, this would create a very 1-dimensional type of player who simply shoots the ball whenever he gets it.

However, I think in practice, it doesn't really work like this. Maybe?! Im not entirely sure. He might be a useful player for perhaps, RnG offense or maybe motion, but I think you would find he would shoot a poor percentage.
In Buzzerbeater I believe you will find that if a player has both low driving and low passing (even a big man), he will take a lot of contested shots, which will mean a lot more misses.

I've had a player with 5 drive and he played perfectly fine. He shot 44% from the field and shot 41% from three. He averaged 17.9 points and 5.8 assists and 1.5 TO. He played average as a guard in look inside . He had only 9 passing too.

His skills were 12/10/9/6/5/9----5/5/5/3


Last edited by Coach Extreme D at 6/10/2014 12:19:03 PM