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I agree about player's height. Since it only affects player training, the GE only takes stats into account.

I also understand why most teams are now going for PF's instead of C. But isn't a little too sad if your starting 5 was down to 5 SF with only little difference ?

If the game is fine right now with PG or SG full of IS, so let it be. But then, it should also be possible to play outside with the right inners. As you say, perhaps high PA, JS, HA and DR should be enough. I understand these kind of players are quite rare on the transfer list, thus making it difficult (and expensive) to test, but right now I'm wondering if it would work out. I got an inner with such stats, and while he totally rocks on an inside play, I'm not quite sure about his outside play.

BTW, when playing outside, why is now princeton better than motion ? I have been playing motion often, and don't like slow tactics, thus princeton is quite unkwown to me. R&G I have forgotten since a long time, alas this is also an "old" tactic :(

with all the PF's being trained, people prefer to opt for Princeton than Motion.

If you got a PF with good JS/DR/HA and decent JR for a PF. you could play him at the PF and play princeton. In Princeton, the PF moves more to the outside (closer to the 3pt line). this, if your opponent play's man to man, and you play Princeton, your opponents PF needs OD or he's going to get dominated. everyone gots the PG's and SG's and most have SF's. But PF's with good OD remain rare and thus form a match-up that you'll want to exploit if you got the player for it.

Futhermore, since most teams play LI, some opponents dare play 2-3. what is better than having 3 guy's shooting from long distance? right, it's 4 guy's shooting from close to the down town area. That is why if a team play's outside nowadays, it's princeton that they use. The PF's got the Passing to pass the ball around. they got the JS to put up a shot. they got the HA/DR combo which influences the quality of the shot and to some degree, they got JR too. Thus, Princeton works now, where as it didn't work very well 6 seasons back because hardly any team had the players to use it correctly.

Very useful information, thanks for letting me know !

I didn't perfectly understood the importance of the PF in this case, and didn't know what the required qualities were.

And after the injuries, my coach makes the strangest decisions ever in my last game :')
Playing centers at the point guard and guards at the center... Letting my stars sit on the bench for most parts of the game, this way I allowed 43 points in de second quarter...
To give you guys an idea about how awful that is... I allowed only 78 points per game before this match up... Gogo Game Engine, you make so much sense :')

GE sometimes makes strange decisions...

i lost the first game of the season. up by 21 at the start of Q4 and had to make a buzzer to go to overtime. Opposing team goes on a run and coach did nothing till my team was up by 2 or 3 points before bringing the starters back... I sometimes wonder if the GE hasn't got written in it's code somewhere to just screw over a team just for the fun of it. like one game per 1000 games that it runs on that day.

I've seen insane comebacks ( the most impressive one was of LoD in the B3 where he needed 40 seconds to erase a 10 point deficit and force overtime to then win the game). I've seen teams lead for 47 minutes and then lose the game. I've seen teams give up 35 point leads, which is just unrealistic. And i've seen results where i know that just isn't possible.

If the Antwerp Giants would play any NBA team ( even the Bobcats!) it's still a 100% certain loss. Yet every now and then, i see a result that looks as if the Giants could beat a NBA team...

True, I got that same feeling!
I've seen some sick comebacks already! And my team started playing well all of a sudden in the last Quarter, even when the other team's starters we're on the court, my team kept on playing better...
Don't really see why, but ah well... No Home court advantage in the play offs then :o

Ok this is what the options are:

OR the game engine hates me and lets 'Let coach decide' fail on purpose

OR the game engine is just messing that up in general...

The only thing I know is that my Centers are playing Guard and vice versa for 2 of my last 3 games now and that both of those matches were really important.
This is just really annoying...

Usually let the coach decide works, fills in the players where they're needed...
Worked for me in the past, but all of a sudden... No luck :')

7 PG's 1PF en 1C....pfff

man has this game evolved since I was paying attention.
but unless they changed the GE since I stopped paying real atention, I can't realy agree with all that is being said here (for instance big man with OD5 defends a JS12 player => useless is something I can not realy agree with, it's a simplistic view, and there's so many more factors deciding the outcome of the shot besides the OD5 and JS12). Some details are missing in the current views, important ones however.
It would realy surprise me if LI and MtM would be the ultimate tactics these days, as I recall being successfull with about all tactics, except princeton, and I still feel that it was because my players where not fit for that tactic.
So if most NTs are going for a single tactic every game, I feel they have a weakness that can be exploited, this game is simply waiting for a manager to exploit it, and enough supporting managers to arrange the players he needs ofc.
Because that's probabl where the real problem lies. Not with the GE, but with the type of players managers choose to train.
Too bad I lack the time to try out my old tactics to see if they would still work, and to see if I could break the circle of the boring 1tactic game. I do know which players and which tactics I would bring to the game though. ;)