What do you think is the best five man line-up to play in WIS basketball? Please note, this is the best line-up for here, not for real life basketball. If you want, name your best WIS team and your best starting five for real players. Don't worry about choosing a bench, just the best five players. If you choose to answer this question, name your players and their best season. No clones.
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4 of the 5 starters would probably be Curry, LeBron, Rodman, Wilt.

Assuming no cap or a high cap:

15-16 Curry
12-13 Lebron
91-92 Rodman
14-15 Deandre
66-67 Wilt

Though if you're talking WIS, you can't exclude clones, so realistically it looks like:

15-16 Curry
12-13 Lebron
91-92 Rodman
94-95 Rodman with 95-96 & 92-93 Rodman backups
66-67 Wilt

You might be better off doing
94-95 Stockton
12-13 Lebron
91-92 Rodman
96-97 Mailman
66-67 Wilt

but I doubt it. 15-16 Curry is the best offensive season in the sim, and it's not even close.

My IRL 5 would have been Magic, Jordan, Bird, Lebron & Kareem. That would be average at best in the sim. You're much better off taking low-usage, role playing specialists to fit around high-usage, high-efg% players, of which there are only a few (and the reason that you see Curry, Lebron, Shaq & a few other players dominating OLs surrounded by a bunch of Worms).

IRL (maybe not the best at each position but this would be the best team imo)

I agree completely with ash's starting five. And, in head-to-head matchup with all other pieces being equal, I'd be interested to see how often I could win by substituting 89-90 Jordan for Curry and 15-16 Draymond for Rodman.

Also some love for 13/14 Lebron, which never gets mentioned because it's slightly worse than 12/13. But s great season. Not sure I'd use it over Curry but a nice 3rd guard for the all-time WIS team. And maybe just maybe the slight defense and rebounding edge comes in handy over Curry and he deserves to start.

I love that season of Curry but not sure its the definitive best at PG. High usage% + super high efg%. But I find due to low rate of FT's that other players (namely Lebron) generate the same points/fga. In the end, points/fga is what matters right? I know that foul frequency tends to be less than IRL but the rates do happen somewhat proportionately. Combine that with Lebron's efg% is not far behind, and his high DEF, reb& and lower TO...I think Lebron is preferable although Curry is just damn fun to play. I just don't like his 68 def and 4.7 TO/48

Also, honestly I hate the "state farm" ast% strategy since everyone started running it. It was super fun at first but then I felt like it was running over every league at a high rate. Someone runs it in almost every open league or theme league where the players aren't restricted.

But hard to argue the Stockton/Stockton/Magic/Lebron/Wilt or slight variation of that lineup isn't the best 5.

I pretty much disagree with almost everything you said in the previous two posts for reasons I'm not going to take time to discuss currently. You do you, though.

I put this team into a 55M league that allows only 1 player to have more than 10 rebs/gm and 1 player over 8 ast/gm (I didn't even draft one). They are off to a pretty good start, but I can't see some of these shooting percentages continuing...

Name	GP	GS	Min	Pts	FG%	3Pt%	FT%	OReb	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF
66-67 Wilt Chamberlain	18	18	44.7	23.8	71.6	0.0	49.4	5.8	14.1	7.2	4.4	1.9	4.2	1.9
12-13 LeBron James	18	18	35.2	27.0	60.6	48.5	82.2	0.8	5.6	7.9	3.9	1.8	0.7	1.6
15-16 Draymond Green	18	18	33.1	13.6	49.7	42.9	59.2	1.3	7.9	8.2	2.9	1.7	1.0	2.3
15-16 Stephen Curry	18	18	32.9	30.9	56.9	50.0	93.3	0.6	3.7	7.8	4.1	2.6	0.1	2.2
88-89 Dennis Rodman	18	18	26.9	10.3	62.6	14.3	72.4	3.9	8.5	1.7	1.8	0.7	0.8	3.6
13-14 Spencer Hawes	18	0	19.9	7.9	38.3	29.7	90.7	0.7	4.5	3.2	1.4	0.7	0.7	2.2
11-12 Kenneth Faried	18	0	15.2	7.2	63.5	0	75.0	1.3	3.9	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.7	1.8
12-13 Jose Calderon	18	0	14.3	7.0	55.0	58.3	94.4	0.1	1.1	3.9	0.8	0.4	0.1	0.6
90-91 Drazen Petrovic	18	0	12.6	9.3	48.9	27.8	85.4	0.4	1.0	1.3	1.4	0.9	0.0	1.4
68-69 Bob Allen	18	0	2.8	0.4	20.0	100.0	100.0	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3
06-07 Maurice Ager	18	0	2.7	0.9	21.1	0.0	75.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.3
53-54 Buddy Ackerman	17	0	2.5	1.2	46.7	77.8	0	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.6
TOTALS	18			139.4	57.2	46.1	75.5	15.3	51.2	42.9	22.2	12.1	8.3	18.8
OPPONENTS	18			125.1	52.6	35.5	71.8	13.1	41.6	39.4	19.7	13.4	6.0	19.2

Posted by ashamael on 7/29/2017 6:25:00 PM (view original):
I pretty much disagree with almost everything you said in the previous two posts for reasons I'm not going to take time to discuss currently. You do you, though.

but what do you know about it?

well played