I have started playing SIM Basketball again for the first time in about 2 years.  The most glaring issue to me (and there are a few) is the frequency of 4 point plays.  There is at least one in every game I play and today my opponent had 3 of them.  I wrote to "Customer Support" to get some answers on this.  Here's what I got in response:

1/14/11

"I'll pass this issue along to the development team for further investigation."

I followed up on 1/19/11.  This was the response:

1/20/11

No updates at this time.


I have heard nothing since.  Is it me, or are they completely blowing me off?  They must realize this is a flaw but don't want to admit it.  I followed up again today.  Can't wait to hear the "response" I get.   

No you can wait.  This is WiS Basketball.  If this was baseball or a dynasty game you would have had an update two weeks ago.  This is basketball and you will get a response the next time they blow up the sim.

Here's the "response" I got:

There are many glaring flaws with the sim.
Unfortunately, they don't care.

I'm sure the sim determines that there was a foul while shooting without taking into account that it's a 3pt attempt and lowering the foul chance.

There has not been an update in almost three years, so it will not get fixed anytime soon.

Posted by ncih on 2/1/2011 11:46:00 PM (view original):
I'm sure the sim determines that there was a foul while shooting without taking into account that it's a 3pt attempt and lowering the foul chance.

There has not been an update in almost three years, so it will not get fixed anytime soon.

I think you might be wrong on that.  The positioning system effects fouls... so I believe the knowledge database is wrong/out of date on this.

Most people keep positioning at 0... so any three or any paint shot has a higher chance of drawing a foul.  If you lower it to -1 (or further), that goes up on any mid range and any three.  Same thing if you raise it to +1 for mid range and paint.

That's why paint/bomber teams were so effective over the last two years.