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was it a double TIE?
maybe your 3 pointers weren't helped much by his TIE, while his inside shots became easy shots

Understand ;)

Once again good changes, next season I will completely change my strategy, thanks for the answer, it's really good to have a BB here with us

I've read this all the way through and would like to address a couple of points raised elsewhere.

1) In my only league loss this season, I did TIE but with fairly high Enthusiasm going in. In the closing minutes, my team started to take 3's and not make them. We did, however, grab the rebounds and stick the shots back in and make defensive stops so that we finally took the lead with 4 seconds to play. This is how I expect my team to play. I would vastly prefer to continue to pound the ball the inside rather than heave up unanswered prayers from distance.

2) With 4 seconds to go, the other team called a TO and made changes. They then went to the player guarded by my worst defender, as you explained the code called for. I think that's fine. However, if the game logic brings in shooters, you should also have logic that brings in my best defenders. With only four seconds to go, my team was never going to shoot the ball. Needless to say, they hit a buzzerbeater and I lost by one.

Hi Charles,

Just want to also speak up for the 'satisfied' managers, who may not be posting because they're happy with the effect of the mid-season changes. My team is definitely "balanced" - I took a decision at the start of the season to test out the commonly presented theory that it's better to only train a couple of positions, not the whole team. So almost all my team are young, improving players, and I've been training the whole team, firstly in jump shots and more recently 1v2 for driving.

I have tried to buy players who have balanced skills, and look for good defensive as well as attacking players in all positions.

Since the All Star Week my team has been posting better performances, and now sits mid-table in the top English league, having started badly, losing twelve of my first fourteen matches, including friendly and cup games. I feel that my balanced team, and balanced training programme is being rewarded, and I'm very pleased.

Also just wanted to say how helpful I found your comments earlier in this thread.

..and here is another "balanced" manager who thinks the game engine changes works well. A team full of steroid ISID/RB 19 year olds will never win over a balanced team with guards that can carry the ball, pass and defend outside/in.. I would be disappointed if the BB GE strived to act in such a way and it probably wouldnt be as fun to play this game.

Im sure the BB's (and GM's) already know that "reality of something" isnt 50 "outraged" people with similar "problems" making a thread in the forums.

..the inside/outside "salary complaints" never made sense to me either. The profile of a good outside player has more skills to it.. I, of course, dont have access to data but glancing the TL now and then clearly says to me that there arent outside players with the same kind of "broilerish" salaryboosting look.

What it says in the rules and sticky threads combined with what they dont say speaks alot..

-P

There indeed seems more at hand than just bringing in the best 3-point shooters at the end of a close game.

seeing my game last night I definatly found the worst free trow shooter to foul in my opponent's team, the poor guy shot 1 for 25 from the line. But I also missed a lot of 3-point shots, and it seems that with 2 point shots I might have won easely... but then probably my opponent would start fouling my worst free trow shooter, and we'd get a very weird scenario. In the end I forced an overtime, where if my opponent would have put in his best free-trow shooters, I'd lose easely.
I say this because when you bring in the best 3-point shooters for the team that needs to catch up, you also need to bring in the 5 best free trow shooters for the team that is ahead, but then you also need to bring in the 5 best outside defenders for that team to prevent the 3-pointers.... Also you need the 5 best rebounders on both sides to grab that rebound after the fouled player missed his second free trow,... and so on and on... it's not as easy as it seems to put the right guys on the field.