FBCB +/- Question

[Ben E Lou]

I was under the impression that the "+/-" rating represented (points scored) - (points allowed on defense). However, afeter my first game, sophomore Chris Flahery has 6 points scored, but a +/- tally of 21. Is this a bug, or a misunderstanding of the rating by me?

[Calis]

It's overall for both teams while that player is on the floor. Not just per player.

Otherwise things would get very screwy when using a Zone Defense.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally posted by SkyDog
I was under the impression that the "+/-" rating represented (points scored) - (points allowed on defense). However, afeter my first game, sophomore Chris Flahery has 6 points scored, but a +/- tally of 21. Is this a bug, or a misunderstanding of the rating by me?

I believe it's a measure of (points scored while player is on the floor) - (points allowed while player is on the floor). I don't know how much of a hockey fan you are, but I believe it's very similar to the official +/- hockey stat.

[cartman]

Not sure if this is the right answer, but I think it works the way it does in hockey. I think it's the (amount of points scored by your team when you are on the floor)-(amount of points scored by the other team when you are one the floor).

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Pumpy Tudors
I don't know how much of a hockey fan you areZero.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Zero.

BANNED!

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Calis
Otherwise things would get very screwy when using a Zone Defense. Oh yeah. It never hit me that some people actually use a zone. Real Men play Man-to-Man. ;)

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Pumpy Tudors
BANNED! Bah. Yankee sport.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Bah. Yankee sport.

I'm from New Orleans. That won't cut it with me.

BANNED!

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Pumpy Tudors
I'm from New Orleans. That won't cut it with me.

BANNED! Where I come from, anyone from west of Mississippi, North of Tennessee, or south of Thomasville, GA is considered to be suspect.

[Calis]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Oh yeah. It never hit me that some people actually use a zone. Real Men play Man-to-Man.

Damn I was afraid this was the case. Put me in the girly-man category then.

I've never even pondered running a Man to Man Defense with my New Hampshire dynasty.

Of course, that has less to do with manhood or more to do with never having a player with any defensive talent whatsoever.

[Balldog]

I always use man to man 100%, but then again I play my top defensive players over my top offensive players.

[BishopMVP]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Bah. Yankee sport.

So was football a hundred years ago..........:D

[Alan T]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Where I come from, anyone from west of Mississippi, North of Tennessee, or south of Thomasville, GA is considered to be suspect.

You missed one other area...

those who live in certain parts of Atlanta also were considered to be suspect :)

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Alan T
You missed one other area...

those who live in certain parts of Atlanta also were considered to be suspect :) By ALL means! :D

Actually, basically anyone who lives within 40 miles of downtown is suspect. Now that I'm in that category, I am well aware of the fact that I have to continually "prove" my authentic Southern-ness to my former neighbors, classmates, etc.

[mckerney]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Oh yeah. It never hit me that some people actually use a zone. Real Men play Man-to-Man. ;)

Real men play the 2-3.

[SlapBone]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Where I come from, anyone from west of Mississippi, North of Tennessee, or south of Thomasville, GA is considered to be suspect.

I believe that a southern state's threshold for yankeedom can be directly correlated to the ease in which they were added back into the union and the speed in which they adapted to their yankee rulers. With this as a barometer I believe that Louisiana and Texas can be considered to be the least yankee of all southern states.

We were never Sherman's bitch. Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia were the states that let that bastard rape their women, burn their houses, and BBQ on their pits. As I recall, Lousiana made Grant's control of the Mississippi a complete hell on earth and he never actually came across the Sabine.

NOTE: This is a benign commentary on the yankeeness of southern states and not a commentary on the Civil War or what it did or didn't politically symbolize.