Why am I shooting so many 3's?  On pace to shoot over double the amount drafted.
Drafted 267, shot 199 before all star break!
Last 10 games have been stupid with my team going like 5 for 40 from 3. 

Name	Pos	GP	Min	Pts	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OReb	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF
69-70 Spencer Haywood	PF	82	3718	2460	963	1951	0	11	534	689	473	1599	186	247	111	114	216
94-95 Dikembe Mutombo	C	82	3100	946	349	628	0	0	248	379	324	1029	114	192	40	323	284
86-87 Fat Lever	PG	82	3054	1552	643	1370	22	92	244	312	216	729	654	167	201	34	219
04-05 Andre Miller	PG	82	2852	1113	427	895	6	39	253	302	100	338	569	220	121	8	204
84-85 Calvin Natt	SF	78	2657	1817	685	1255	0	3	447	564	209	610	238	190	75	33	182
09-10 Ty Lawson	PG	65	1318	542	201	390	34	83	106	140	42	124	203	82	48	2	89
79-80 Alex English	SF	24	875	512	207	427	2	3	96	126	102	225	82	90	28	29	78
05-06 Reggie Evans	PF	26	604	135	43	95	0	0	49	97	57	226	15	44	16	5	71
69-70 Floyd Theard	PG	25	397	96	39	111	0	1	18	28	21	51	43	44	23	2	48
85-86 Blair Rasmussen	C	48	330	153	61	150	0	0	31	39	37	97	16	40	3	10	63
05-06 Voshon Lenard	SG	12	238	99	42	103	10	35	5	13	2	28	18	11	8	2	21
01-02 Antonio McDyess	PF	10	236	113	43	75	0	0	27	33	18	55	18	20	10	8	20
TOTALS			19379	9538	3703	7450	74	267	2058	2722	1601	5111	2156	1347	684	570	1495
All totals adjusted to 82 game season

dont worry you'll probably also shoot about 5% over your team's IRL average so it's all good

Something is just screwy with this team.  Fat Lever just took 29 shots in a game! Something is messed up with usage or how I have guys subbed in or out.  Who knows. 

Posted by badjas on 12/21/2010 2:44:00 PM (view original):
Something is just screwy with this team.  Fat Lever just took 29 shots in a game! Something is messed up with usage or how I have guys subbed in or out.  Who knows. 

You're thinking about it too much.  Let me fix the statement for you:

Something is just screwy with this sim.  Fat Lever just took 29 shots in a game!  Something is messed up with this sim or how the sim has guys subbed in or out.  Who knows?

Posted by ashamael on 12/21/2010 6:18:00 PM (view original):

Posted by badjas on 12/21/2010 2:44:00 PM (view original):
Something is just screwy with this team.  Fat Lever just took 29 shots in a game! Something is messed up with usage or how I have guys subbed in or out.  Who knows. 

You're thinking about it too much.  Let me fix the statement for you:

Something is just screwy with this sim.  Fat Lever just took 29 shots in a game!  Something is messed up with this sim or how the sim has guys subbed in or out.  Who knows?

Exactly. This sim has a bizarre way of doing things sometimes, so I wouldn't read into the anomoly's too much.

So true guys.  One thing I am learning is the importance of super high usage players (30%+).  Going to have one on every team from now on.

Although I notice qistat seems to be looking at the problem from the other side entirely and is winning with low-usage, monster-rebounding defensive squads.

To be fair, most championship teams in NBA history have had at least one high-usage guy (maybe not 30%+, but fairly high).  The one superstar, one/two quasi-star(s) + roleplayers model has been the best way to win titles.  It would be kinda unrealistic if you could easily win a title in this sim without at least a 25% guy (the only one I can think of that came close was the 2004 Pistons team... and Rip was at 25.7%, I just checked, and he had Rasheed and Chauncey helping out with the scoring.  Also, another weird thing with that year - Kevin Garnett had the most points scored for the season, apparently, although TMac scored more per game).  So, it isn't that weird that odd things happen when people put together a team without enough usage - you can't expect players to put up their real-life stats in that situation.  SOMEONE has to take the shots (and probably miss them, since they're likely forcing more difficult shots than in real life).

And Fat Lever taking 29 shots in one game doesn't seem crazy.  He took 16.7 shots per game in real life.  Do you expect him to take exactly 16-17 every game?  In real life in 1987, Fat Lever took 24+ shots in four games (he never took 29), and that was on a real life team with Alex English (29.2% usage).  So, for him to take in the high-twenties on your team every once in a while doesn't seem crazy to me.  Players are going to react to the other players on your team, they won't just replicate their real life stats.

As for why you were shooting so many 3s... maybe it has to do with your opponents' defense.  You don't seem to have any crazy perimeter threats on that team (as evidenced by your low # of 3PA), so maybe your opponents are all playing you at -2, which causes you to take more 3PA, as you can see at the below link:

http://www.whatifsports.com/knowledgebase/KB_Article_Details.aspx?kbid=702

Wow, you went through all that just to agree with the point that I already made (that super high usage guys are important)?   Since this was a theme league, you have to use what you've got available. 

To address your last point (which I would've noticed and noted), ppl rarely played me with a -2.    

I drafted 9500 points and 1300 to's, which I would think would be enough usage. 

As I pointed out, we took 199 3's in the first 42 games and I only drafted 267 total.  If you can't see that is way off, I don't know what else to say. 

And linking to a WIS FAQ is truly hilarious.

what is your record badja

Detlef

let me help you for a second without being mean...

You have only played 5 seasons of this sim so you don't know that the sim has nothing to do with RL NBA.  Most people do not change defensive positioning.  WiS doesn't have a practical understanding of the sim so the FAQ's are worthless for the most part.  It is like reading the owners manual for your car to learn how to  drive.

For the record 29 shots is insane considering his season high is 25 and the team was number one in pace that season.  You are saying that he would shoot 16% higher that his in season high in a very high paced offense.  Even jf badja is running a fast paced offense he still has to give up shots to Monster Haywood, Natt, Miller, and English in short bursts of offense.

Team: Denver Nuggets Coach: badjas Arena: Pepsi Center

Record: 51-31 Home: 33-8 Away: 18-23

Conference: 37-21 (3rd) Division: 25-15 (2nd) Last 10: 5-5

Name	GP	GS	Min	Pts	FG%	3Pt%	FT%	OReb	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF
69-70 Spencer Haywood	82	82	47.3	29.9	50.6	5.3	81.0	4.2	15.7	2.9	3.3	1.3	1.4	2.4
86-87 Fat Lever	82	82	38.8	20.2	48.3	31.1	77.1	2.1	8.0	8.9	2.3	2.8	0.5	2.5
94-95 Dikembe Mutombo	82	82	38.4	14.3	59.6	0	67.1	3.8	12.0	1.7	2.1	0.5	4.8	3.3
04-05 Andre Miller	82	82	35.4	14.3	47.5	21.1	80.2	1.3	4.3	8.9	3.0	1.7	0.2	2.5
84-85 Calvin Natt	82	82	33.5	20.5	53.6	0.0	78.4	2.1	6.8	3.0	2.5	0.7	0.6	2.5
09-10 Ty Lawson	82	0	16.1	7.5	52.3	44.7	79.3	0.6	1.5	2.8	1.3	0.7	0.0	1.2
79-80 Alex English	82	0	10.5	5.7	49.0	60.0	76.0	1.0	2.3	1.3	1.0	0.5	0.4	1.0
05-06 Reggie Evans	82	0	7.6	2.0	48.2	0.0	52.0	0.7	2.5	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.8
69-70 Floyd Theard	82	0	4.5	1.1	35.4	33.3	65.0	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.5
85-86 Blair Rasmussen	67	0	4.7	1.7	34.1	0	89.7	0.4	1.3	0.2	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.7
05-06 Voshon Lenard	75	0	3.1	1.2	34.6	21.7	35.0	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.3
01-02 Antonio McDyess	74	0	2.9	1.2	40.7	0	67.9	0.2	0.7	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.2
TOTALS	82			119.0	50.4	30.7	76.4	16.5	55.3	30.6	17.6	9.0	8.3	17.8
OPPONENTS	82			115.5	47.3	41.1	77.9	13.8	48.0	29.9	17.5	9.9	7.8	20.5

That's pacing normalization.  Still blows.