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Quote: Originally Posted by bigtreydawg

I'm beginning to think that the inside shot tendency has an effect on whether a player will drive. With drive the lane at 0 there was signifacantly more 3pt attempts but with it at 100 Miller and Allen would catch the ball the ball and instead of spotting up for their shot they would drive. They would get bumped and they would pass away. This particular scenario happened 4 times in freelance with ample time in the shot clock. I was careful to only gage situations where the offensive was not being pressured by time constraints. With ball movement as good as it is now that the freelance tendencies jive so well, I fear my opinions are becoming more subjective. DTL at 100 makes everyone run the break (off ball), so the pushing from the ball handler is just him getting swept up in the momentum of the action. Same with pick and rolls, right. Maybe the ball handler is attacking more because the roll man did a great job of drawing the defense away. I'm gonna do another test but this time with Chalmers as the one on with drive the lane at 100. If he turns into a ball hog this should be good evidence. Thanks for the coach profile test. I think the game "rides the hot hand" to a small extent when it comes to play calling. Hornececk did not get an unrealistic amount of plays called for him and Malone was still very much involved in the offense. I think raising Stockton's touch tendency resulted in more pick and rolls between him and Malone and since that is considered a play being called for Malone the game was ok with giving Hornececk extra looks. Don't wear yourself out lol. What do you want to tackle next? Fast break is really interesting to me because its been really consistant the entire time we've been messing with drive the lane. We both noticed how it tends to "shut off" right before a shot goes up. Lets see if we can establish a low Tempo Heat team that gets 20+ on the break and still plays decent. I've been moving offensive tempo to either 0 or 50 for testing purposes and I can say for sure 0 is bad. Way too many close calls with the shot clock leading to spin cycle followed by bad shot. But I think 50 may be too high for the Heat. Since I now feel comfortable that lowering the coach profile inside and close sliders only affects shot attempts from that location, I really feel like I'm on my way to getting great stats and gameplay without sliders. But I imagine when we're done with this we can say this is a legit coach profile for the Heat. I imagine we'll differ a bit since you have midrange and what not turned up in your in game sliders.

If this has already been considered my apologies. I just stumbled upon this thread and have yet to read through it completely. But given shot tendencies exist both in the coaches profile and under player tendencies, couldn't the 2 work together. For example...Say you take a coach who favors the inside game over the outside.

Could this...1. Encourage players to take inside shots regardless of personal shot/hot spot tendencies? and/or 2. Discourage players with low outside tendencies from firing from deep every chance they get?

You know how you get players in real life who aren't considered 3pt specialists attempting a larger number of them under a coach with a "let it fly" mentality like a Don Nelson than they would under a George Karl-esq drive 1st type? I'm really having trouble finding a name to go with these scenarios but I've seen it play out plenty of times. It even happens with base-stealers in baseball.

Coaches preference or style can dictate a lot. Even a player's production. Which leads me to the last part of my theory. What if the tendencies in the coach's profile, which should reflect his team's play style preference (in the perfect sim world), dictated the type of players the team's front office went after in Association? I mean this would take a massive edit to test, but it'd be cool to discover if it were exactly what would happen.