I have read every post, article, etc etc about 20 times that has anything to do with usage....but wanted to get some opinions from some of the people that know a whole lot more than me. What is the min amount of usage you would go with to run a half court offense? Max for uptempo? Are we counting points or total usage? How bad are some of the negative effects for not running enough or too much? If anyone would like to be generous with some info/their opinions, I would greatly appreciate it! I'm now officially addicted to sim basketball, I have almost completely moved over here from sim baseball. (Sim baseball now just helps $upport my habit over here!!) Thanks!

For me to determine if a team is half court one thing I do is I add the total amount of usage of my starting 5 and its 107 or below I look towards doing a half court team.  This is a very inexact science (or it doesnt mean anything at all), sometimes I think my team is a half court team and its not doing well.  So I switch it to a full court and it does better or visa versa.  Sometimes you might just have to see how it goes with your team during a season.  Also reason for a half court team if is to cut down on TOs and Fouls.  Less possession means less times your team will screw up.

 

Posted by eleibowitz on 7/15/2011 7:18:00 AM (view original):

For me to determine if a team is half court one thing I do is I add the total amount of usage of my starting 5 and its 107 or below I look towards doing a half court team.  This is a very inexact science (or it doesnt mean anything at all), sometimes I think my team is a half court team and its not doing well.  So I switch it to a full court and it does better or visa versa.  Sometimes you might just have to see how it goes with your team during a season.  Also reason for a half court team if is to cut down on TOs and Fouls.  Less possession means less times your team will screw up.

 

Posted by ashamael on 7/15/2011 3:25:00 PM (view original):

Posted by eleibowitz on 7/15/2011 7:18:00 AM (view original):

For me to determine if a team is half court one thing I do is I add the total amount of usage of my starting 5 and its 107 or below I look towards doing a half court team.  This is a very inexact science (or it doesnt mean anything at all), sometimes I think my team is a half court team and its not doing well.  So I switch it to a full court and it does better or visa versa.  Sometimes you might just have to see how it goes with your team during a season.  Also reason for a half court team if is to cut down on TOs and Fouls.  Less possession means less times your team will screw up.

 

"Less possession means less times your team will screw up."

Not necessarily.  From what I've seen, the percentage of times your team screws up remains the same or is even greater... thus you're not helping your cause and only enabling outliers a greater chance to screw you over (assuming you've the better team).

Posted by ashamael on 7/17/2011 4:05:00 PM (view original):
Placebo effect.  Have you run the advanced stats?  Every time I make the switch, my tov% remains the same or even higher.  Fouls... that's a different story.

Actually just did and your correct about TOV% but like you said fouls are a discernable differnce

 

 i'm not sure i agree with any of the previous posts, especially the case to be made about "outliers' or such randomness affecting outcomes of games. if randomness was such an inhibitor, you wouldn't be seeing so many 60 win teams in the top 25.

sure, randomness and outliers exist at a high rate, but only for teams where the roster encourages such happenstance.

and you asked the right question, usage. i believe this is the single biggest factor in determining, or actually, reducing random outliers on a per game basis. used to be, an owner would draft 5 studs that took up the bulwark of mins, with lots of 3's, boards, and dimes...

but this is a different sim engine now,

where i believe part time players rule the roost, and they should always be playing uptempo, regardless of the usage.

if too many outliers are happening, it is because your squad is imbalanced on the floor at different times throughout the game.

i am having great success now with my starters not exceeding 2300-2600 mins... and their backups at 1150-1300 mins that mirrors the starter's usage% (which is the key ingrediant). if my starting sg is danny granger, who's usage is 27%, then i will back him up with a player like j.r. smith, who's usage is 26%. and so on. if i can manage my depth as such, i have taken a giant step in maintaining balance on the floor.

this is why scrubs, and rookies, tend to imbalance a team, and thus, outliers and randomness abounds. even if a team uses its rookies, the 60 win teams's rookies become part of the depth chart on a regualer basis and are not really used as filler mins when a salaried player goes into the blue from fatigue.