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I think your garbage time for both teams is a great idea, just not at the beginning of the 4th. I can see the team that is up emptying its bench to start, and then, if the game is still a shellacking with, say, 5 minutes left bring in the scrubs for the losing team.

I don't know about disregarded. Maybe not yet considered? I also think that Charles' point about the sheer number of simulations and the probability of all sorts of crazy things (like McGrady's 13 points in 35 seconds) happening is a good one. I can understand how if it happens to you, it would really be a drag, and that it does seem to need some AI tinkering. I can also undertand the BB point of view that it's only happening once every insert-very-large-number-here times a season across the global community.

And, the link wasn't really about garbage time at all. Just a crazy last minute that I thought was pretty cool.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 2/14/2009 10:13:05 AM

Oh ok, I thought it was referred to the gargabe time situation, and I was kinda confused.

I don't know whether the ideas that were thrown out in this discussion and in past ones (since we've been discussing garbage time for ages now) have been disregarded or not....I just know that the solution Charles proposed was not one of the ones that were brought up by the community (at least not to my knowledge..although I could be wrong). The reason I am against it is because in essence it brings up a situation where the only thing you can do is pray that nothing horrific happens, because you are all but guaranteed that nothing positive can come from either playing an entire quarter with your subs against the other team's starters or playing a full quarter with your starters in danger of being crippled.

Onestly, if that were the case, I would just stop watching the game at the end of the 3rd quarter, and tune in for the final result.