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As a whole, it is always better to have more tactical options than less, so for game play reasons the suggestion that you cite is completely unacceptable.

Not only is it not unacceptable, it's a really good idea.

the only thing i can go on since i don't normally play dynasty sims is the real life equivalent. if an NBA team was found to be deliberately slacking then there would be nothing short of a congressional investigation (these days it almost seems as though i'm not exaggerating). i can understand in real life that coaches will pull their best players at the end of the season to save them for the playoffs, but never would they do that during the beginning or middle of the season. taking it easy is something that i have seen in the world of football like the world cup. a team that has already guaranteed itself a spot in the next round will not play for the win in order to let a weaker squad to advance. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i feel that TIE is a carryover from football, which has a different strategical approach. the suggestions in here have been very good and sensible. this is one change that needs to be made.

2. And yes, TIE does exist. Just ask the teams who go out and play the New York Knicks this season. If you apply this type of logic, then CT shouldn't exist either. If teams should choose to be able to pick up the intensity against a specific team (CT), how is it that they never choose to lower it to conserve strength (TIE)? I repeat, this happens all the time in real games. In an 82-game season teams tend to pace themselves when effort is concerned. That is why weak teams sometimes come up with surprising victories.

why does everyone reference the Knicks? Miami would be a better example. but that's not important. teams do pace themselves but they do not take it easy. there is always something to play for. coaches would rather pull their players than play them in a game they think is an easy win. thus the reserves play their asses off to try and gain more minutes in future games. better performance equals better contract.

i feel as though enthusiasm should be renamed pace then...but at this point we're just arguing semantics.

Not only is it a terrible idea, but it is also going to kill the player base in the long run.

I really cannot see that being a factor.

Scrapping TIE will make it exponentially harder for teams that are somewhat weaker to beat stronger teams.

Not really.

Now, stronger teams can TIE their way to a high enthusiasm rather quickly (especially if they can play mutual TIE), and once they get there it's that much harder to beat them for a team who isn't good enough to TIE any of their games.

I am not even going to go into the fact that the importance of planning how you play over the course of your season gets significantly diminished, as you're no longer able to throw certain games in order to concentrate on others.

I assume you wanted to use slightly better terminology, as I can't imagine we'd want to encourage someone to throw games.

I think your underestimating even the weakest NBA teams. Even the worst teams can catch fire and beat a better team. I think the GE does a pretty good job of keeping the results random to parallel this.

It just seems wholly unrealistic that a coach would tell his team to go "take it easy" in a competitive game.

I would disagree that it's important for weaker teams to have a tool to target stronger teams and beat them. Better tactics, better training, better purchases and financial planning, these should be the tools that teams use to get better and beat stronger teams, IMO.