The same player can get higher ratings according to enthusiasm but also the opponents. A team with a very strong SF in a lower division can probably play TIE more often, thus higher ratings. Consequently, since that team will get higher scores (blowouts & such) , that player plays less minutes which again increases the rating.
However, if that same player is a starter in a very strong league, he will play against harder opponents, stay in the court more minutes and the team probably has less enthusiasm, so the SF rating go down.
This I can see, but the fact that it is a higher division is purely coincidental to the cause.
The lower enthusiasm and more minutes (depending on stamina) are the cause for lower rating. So while it is common for the scenarios you mention to happen in stronger leagues and higher divisions, a player with high enthusiasm and low minutes (depending on stamina) will have a higher rating than one with low stamina and copious minutes, given equal skills and game shapes no matter what league or division they play in. That's what I think anyway.
Last season my highest rated games (both team and player) game against the two best teams in the division.
(13510927)(13510919)(15106201)All three of these games came in a row. You can see that I played the same team twice. He Crunch Timed in both games while I normaled the first game and CT'd the second. My players rated much better than his in the second game.
Right after those games my enthusiasm was much lower and I had a miserable game against a lower quality opponent.
(15079482)From these games it seems to me that enthusiasm, game shape, stamina, and skills are what affect the player rating, not opponent.
Last edited by somdetsfinest at 9/25/2009 11:33:02 AM
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