Sorry if I ruffled your feathers.
I probably shouldn't bother because, y'know, you'll just claim you know "my type". And I'm guessing you consider
lecturing a pejorative? I'm not certain how your responses to me have been any less
lecturing than mine to you, but whatever.
But again, you aren't reading what I've written. I initially asked for empirical evidence that training jump shooting trains a person's FT ability. That's very different from asking if good three point shooters are also good FT shooters in the real world.
Btw, you did notice that not all of the top 3 point shooters in your link are over 80% Ft shooters, right? And this despite the fact that all of those guys train both 3pt shooting and FT shooting fairly seriously. Rather hard to believe, isn't it?
redcpedt asked:There is a reasonable question being lost in this argument, namely why is any player in this game bad enough to miss all 1700 FTA in his career? Just playing and training for 15 seasons would result in improvement.
In the real world, sure. But this is a simulation where the manner in which players improve is very much nothing like how a person in the real world improves. The only reason there are players in this game who manage to take that many FTs and miss them is because the people playing the game have decided to never train FT. In the real world, I doubt you could find a basketball player at any level who doesn't train FTs at least a little bit every week, if not day. In BuzzerBeater it is something many refuse to train (and then come to the forums and complain about their poor FT shooters) so you end up with these oddities - guys who make Shaq look like a FT god!
Most teams have at least two weeks a season where they will only have two games. Just taking one of those weeks each season (heck, even every other season) will turn a 0% FT shooter into a more realistic terrible FT shooter in fairly short order.
They already changed the training once to add "cross-training" due to how silly and unrealistic many people were training their players and then complaining about so many players being uni-dimensional. While I'm not in favor of it, perhaps they should reduce the amount of JS and JR training one gets when training Jump Shot and put that percentage toward FT shooting. Of course, then people will complain about how slow Jump Shot training improves JS and JR. I just don't think it is really needed, given how easy it is for anyone to actually improve FT if they truly care about it.