I'm hoping that by running a zone it that it would make up alittle for the lack of ID. Does OD have any effect on DR? I remember this American manager named SM that was really successful in the NBBA. He won two cups and the NBBA once. He didn't invest in ID at all. The highest ID he had on a player was 10. He was able to do this because he had tons of OD. When I get in higher division I plan on loading up on OD as well.
You need OD to defend the opposing Guards. Every play starts with the PG, so OD will kick in and work against him. If your OD is so high that you can demolish the passing and driving of your opponents, you bigs don't need so much ID.
Let me explain it with an example:
Your players defend.
The PG has the ball and he wants to pass it to the C. He has PA 13 and without defenders he would have a nice pass to the open C. So the pass is at 100% and as soon as the C catches the ball he has a possible FG% of 70%. That's an open pass with an open shot.
Now we take an OD 18 PG to it. That's your guy. His defense has such a high pressure, that this pass will decrease to 20% (just a guess, could be higher). Now the attacking PG has to decide: passing or attacking?
The game engine calculates what's better. Passing 20% success, shooting 15% success, driving 18% success. So the PG passes the ball to the C. But the pass is so bad that the C has a hard time to find a good shooting spot. His possible FG% drops to 30% because of the influence of the OD on the pass. And now there is a ID 10 C who defends this guy. His FG% will be influenced again. And as soon as he takes the shot, SB will defend him.
So you can see, that OD has already an influence on the shot. I have a player with OD+ID+SB=57 and his defensive pressure is so high, that most of the players don't shot against him. They pass the ball to another player. But his OD influences this pass heavily and as soon as someone tries to shoot my SB-squad is there to stop them.
Last edited by Nachtmahr at 12/31/2015 10:59:41 AM