Is there an accepted definition of what skill gap means on this board?

[Housh123]

I see it used a lot but don’t think it’s been formerly explained here


Imo my definition of skill gap is that a game with a large skill gap is a game that takes more skill to be elite at. Aka 2ks skill gap is very small meaning AS A WHOLE the best 2k players on the planet are not much better than the average players. They probably know how to do one or two more things and master it.


You go to another game such as Fortnite with a large skill gap. Meaning the best Fortnite players in the world are WORLDS better than average Fortnite players. An average Fortnite player will basically NEVER beat a top 100 player in the world


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[UnbelievablyRAW]

Imo an adequate skill gap translates to low effort, surface level play not being effective and efficient at a high level in game. Stuff like inbounding the ball to half court and tossing the ball to the pf who is probably wide open because the defensive CPU is busy clapping at the crowd. Calling isolation at the wing and turboing baseline until you trigger a blowby animation to get a contact dunk. Calling iso, sprinting towards the rim and doing a snatchback that forces 10ft of space for an open 3 etc.

When low effort play yields massive reward, the skill gap is really small because you don't need to put much effort into learning the game and knowing basketball to be successful competitively. I already saw some of that in the brief time I watched the eleague

[Keith01]

Yup. Less cheese, more realism = greater skill gap. You make a cheesy game that delivers unrealistic results, it means trash players can be good. Can't count how many times I've seen bad players succeed on unrealistic things - bad shot selections, glitches (spamming LB on defense), etc.

The more realistic/sim bball iq-dependent a game is, the more scared cheesers would be, because they know they'd get exposed.

[Cowboyfan_19]

Quote: Originally Posted by Keith01

Yup. Less cheese, more realism = greater skill gap. You make a cheesy game that delivers unrealistic results, it means trash players can be good. Can't count how many times I've seen bad players succeed on unrealistic things - bad shot selections, glitches (spamming LB on defense), etc. The more realistic/sim bball iq-dependent a game is, the more scared cheesers would be, because they know they'd get exposed.

Hit it on point. The cheesier the game experience = less skill gap.


Here's my record on standard PNO:

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...c8&oe=5BDEE00E


As you can see, 90% of the time I'm gonna be the underdog in every game I play, just for the simple fact that I don't use teams that have a superstar SG or SF that can ISO turbo & blow boy dunk on everybody like every online player seems to need to compete....and yet I still have around a 60% win total.


And here's my record when I play on NBA Playgrounds 2 / NBA JAM (sorry, I mean MyTeam):

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...23&oe=5C0E579B


So yea, the more sim the experience, the better results you're gonna have if you have better basketball knowledge than your opponent.