You can make yourself look badly inferior in team ratings and still have the stronger team on court
for me this is clear since the new engine is out, the matchup rating combined with the shots taken are the kind were i usually look at, and in this area is PF who was conservative in lineup was clearly the ebst even when the other do good.
and out-of-position offensive players may be a way to force fouls on defenders
i would say this is more random, because i play sometimes my trainees out of position to teach then inside Skills(and they are more guard like SF, sometimes even real guards). I don't do it that often to have asolid data base, and often it combined with superior or weak lineups but i don't notice then to draw so much fould then usual.