Beating a team under 42M cap Topic

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There are these two teams I can't seem to beat with any other. Does anyone have any ideas on how to beat these 2 teams? And please don't laugh if you think they're terrible, because I've only been going for about a year.
99-00 Tim Hardaway
99-00 Steve Nash
72-73 Dave Wohl
80-81 Rory Sparrow
89-90 Michael Jordan
97-98 David Benoit
78-79 Steve Sheppard
87-88 Charles Barkley
94-95 Dennis Rodman
68-69 Walt Piatkowski
51-52 Alex Hannum
56-57 Bill Russell
That's the first team. Here's the other:
93-94 Isiah Thomas
99-00 Tim Hardaway
08-09 Jamal Crawford
89-90 Michael Jordan
92-93 Bernard King
75-76 John Johnston
65-66 Happy Hairston
68-69 Walt Piatkowski
51-52 Alex Hannum
65-66 Wilt Chamberlain
77-78 Jim McDaniels
04-05 Mark Madsen
These 2 teams have gotten really annoying, and I can't beat them in a series of 7 games, like the playoffs. Please, help.
5/5/2011 6:32 PM
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more rebounds...neither team is all that strong on the glass
5/5/2011 6:40 PM
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Really? The first team has gotten over 70 boards in a game multiple times.
5/6/2011 3:59 PM
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Posted by fridgerator on 5/6/2011 3:59:00 PM (view original):
Really? The first team has gotten over 70 boards in a game multiple times.
its tough to say could you post the advanced and total tabs, that would be able to show what's going on
5/6/2011 4:21 PM
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http://www.whatifsports.com/nba/boxscore.asp?gameid=7627849&teamfee=9.95
Here's just one example of this team when I used it in sim-leauge.
Was this what you wanted?
5/6/2011 5:22 PM
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http://www.whatifsports.com/NBA/boxscore.asp?GameID=4478370&nomenu=1&teamfee=-1
The other team isn't as good at rebounding. In fact, Wilt is basically all they have for rebounds. But when I wanted to renew a team from before the major salary changes, with a starting lineup of Nash, MJ, Rice, Rodman, and Wilt, it's pretty hard to beat.
5/6/2011 5:26 PM
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I just made a team that beat the other two. Do you hall of famers think this is a good team?
Pos Player PPG RPG APG TOPG SPG BPG Salary
    PG 93-94 Isiah Thomas 14.8 2.7 6.9 3.5 1.2 0.1 $3,051,277
    PG 99-00 Tim Hardaway 13.4 2.9 7.4 2.3 0.9 0.1 $3,026,631
    PG 08-09 Jamal Crawford 19.6 1.5 4.4 2.4 0.8 0.0 $589,100
    SG 82-83 World B. Free 22.8 2.3 4.7 2.6 0.8 0.2 $993,506
    SF 87-88 Larry Bird 29.9 9.3 6.1 2.8 1.6 0.8 $9,022,411
    SF 01-02 Michael Jordan 22.9 5.7 5.2 2.7 1.4 0.4 $4,625,235
    SF 91-92 Dominique Wilkins 28.1 7.0 3.8 2.9 1.2 0.6 $3,662,182
    PF 92-93 Dennis Rodman 7.5 18.3 1.6 1.7 0.8 0.7 $5,701,541
    PF 88-89 Detlef Schrempf 9.5 4.5 2.3 1.5 0.6 0.2 $1,363,510
    C 74-75 Moses Malone 18.5 14.4 1.0 3.9 1.0 1.5 $8,491,885
    C 88-89 Joe Kleine 6.1 4.9 1.1 1.3 0.5 0.2 $748,210
    C 07-08 Alonzo Mourning 6.0 3.7 0.3 1.0 0.2 1.7 $701,204
Totals 17.6 8.0 3.9 2.6 1.0 0.6 $41,976,692

5/6/2011 9:03 PM (edited)
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you need to look at advanced stats - also if you go back in to edit you can cut/delete the red X/circle thingies and the table will resize
5/6/2011 8:51 PM
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Thanks, felonius. But what part of the advanced stats are extremely important? What kind of stuff is in there that could make or break a team?

5/6/2011 9:05 PM
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debatable descending order: efg; ORB/DRB%s, usage (balance), um kind of a toss-up after that - you want to have a certain aggregate as% on the floor or you suffer a penalty - def rating is somewhere in there (although that's not on the advanced page)
5/6/2011 9:14 PM
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here's my current open league team which is doing pretty ok:

Team: No Bench, No Problem
Coach: felonius
Arena: Air Canada Center		 Record: 41-13
Home: 23-5
Away: 18-8		 Conference: 32-10 (1st)
Division: 22-8 (1st)
Last 10: 8-2
 
Name Pos Usage% 2pt%# 3pt%# eFG% OReb% DReb% Ast% Stl% Blk%
03-04 Donyell Marshall SF 19.7 49.1 40.3 52.5 7.5 21.9 6.1 1.5 2.6
02-03 Tracy McGrady SF 35.4 48.3 38.6 50.5 4.3 13.7 18.7 1.9 1.2
82-83 Moses Malone C 26.0 49.8 0.0 50.1 16.7 25.2 3.8 1.2 2.9
09-10 Jason Kidd PG 14.6 41.7 42.4 55.4 1.8 14.8 31.8 2.3 0.7
97-98 Dennis Rodman PF 8.7 44.9 17.4 43.6 15.7 29.4 10.5 0.8 0.4
75-76 Gerald Govan C 11.2 43.5 0.0 43.5 6.1 17.6 9.6 0.4 0.8
09-10 Chucky Atkins PG 14.5 41.3 30.0 43.3 0.8 4.6 19.0 1.3 0.0
01-02 Glen Rice SF 15.8 45.8 28.0 44.3 0.9 7.5 7.2 0.9 0.3
02-03 Danny Ferry SF 12.1 36.2 35.0 44.0 3.9 9.4 4.8 0.5 0.9
01-02 Matt Bullard PF 17.3 39.9 28.0 40.9 3.1 11.2 6.2 0.3 0.3
83-84 Ron Brewer SG 13.4 46.8 0.0 46.6 2.4 4.3 3.2 1.1 1.3
00-01 Mark Strickland SF 15.6 38.0 100.0 39.8 5.7 16.7 4.9 0.9 0.9
5/6/2011 9:16 PM
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But remember, I'm still pretty new to this stuff. What's exactly "good" for this stuff? What is the usage%? The eFG%? Are the 2pt%# and 3pt%# the field goal percentage from those categories? I looked at the team on your profile (they have 42 wins now). How much are youo overplaying those guys though?
5/7/2011 8:44 AM
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not much because I got 3 D+ rookies taking up the spare minutes I didnt draft for my bench
5/7/2011 8:49 AM
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some of your usage answers will be found here:

http://whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?ForumID=9&TopicID=360613&page=-1&TopicsTimeframe=30#postBox
5/7/2011 8:52 AM
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eFG% is effective field goal %.  Its adjusts you fg% based upon 3 pointers made.  The 2pt%# and 3pt%# is pretty much a useless stat. 

5/7/2011 10:28 AM
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