Historical Association #8 1st season 1988-‘89

[Wayne23]

3/9: We play #8 seed Marquette, 16-12, 8-8, in the quarter finals.

3/10: 86-74. 25, 12 for Wood, 18 for SG Josh Bond, 14, 7 for SF Earl Harp.

#4 seed Villanova, 16-12, 9-7, in the semifinals. We split 2 blowouts with them.

3/11: 48-62. We shot 36% but had 24 TOs. 19, 9 for Wood. Everyone else was awful.

24-7, 12-4, #10, RPI #11.

3/12: #4 Midwest. We play #13 Cal ST Fullerton, 21-10.

3/16: 81-68. 30, 9 for Wood, 19, 14 for PF Zac Main.

#5 seed, #18 ranked Kentucky, 21-12, in round two. They’re very tough inside.

3/18: 72-63. 20, 13 for Wood, three others with 10 or more.

#9 seed Oregon, 19-12, in the Sweet Sixteen.

3/23: 68-58. 25, 16 for Wood, 16, 9 for Main. 20 TOs, but +22 RBs.

#6 seed, #21 ranked Arizona, 22-11, in the Elite Eight. They have Mo Taylor, the best player in the country. He gets 37.8 PPG.

3/25: 85-69! 26, 20 for Zac Main, 21, 4 for Wood, 14, 7 for sub Cory Sine, 13, 8 for Bond. +24 RBs. We held Taylor to 31.

We play #1 seed, #4 ranked Louisville, 30-6. They have a terrific outside game.

4/1: 80-68! 36, 8 for Wood, 14, 14 for Main, 12, 11 for SF Earl Harp. They beat us outside, but we took care of the ball- only 14 TOs (-3), and we ate them up inside.

We play #1 seed, #7 ranked Wake Forest, 30-6, for the national title. Another very good outside team. This won’t be easy.

4/3: 57-72. 22, 10 for Wood, but no one else had more than 7 points. 27 TOs, only +5 RBs. Oh well, we got to the title game.

4/4: Jay Wood is Big East POY, Def. POY, and 1st team. Zac Main is Frosh OY and 1st team. I am COY.

4/23: I ask for $. We get $13,500.

29-8, 12-4, played for the title. Overall, 243-90, .730.

[Wayne23]

5/1: National Basic.

6/5: No slots for transfers.

6/26: This is the last year of the trial, so no recruiting.

8/7: Josh Bond is #35 on the Norton list.

9/7: Google is founded.

9/18: Coaches Classic vs. Gonzaga.

10/2: 1st day of practice. We’re picked to finish 3rd in the Big East.

11/6: 8 man rotation but SG and SF are up for grabs:

Junior Cid Dare starts at PG.

Senior Josh Bond starts at SG, subs at PG. Soph Kal Smid subs at SG.

Soph Jon Benn starts at SF, and soph Cory Sine gets equal time there.

Soph Scot Morn starts at PF, subs at C. Soph Zac Main starts at C.

[Wayne23]

11/12: We are the #11 seed in the Coaches Classic. We play #6 Gonzaga.

11/13: 76-66. 37, 9 for Center Zac Main.

We play #14 seed, UTEP in the quarter finals.

11/15: 82-68. 32, 8 for Main, 12, 12 for PF Scot Morn, 14 for PG Cid Dare. +13 RBs.

#2 seed, #8 ranked Purdue in the semifinals. This won’t be easy.

11/17: 66-73. 33, 15 for Main but we had 31 TOs.

12/4: 5-2, #20, RPI #13.

12/19: Clinton is impeached by the House. The trial goes to the Senate.

12/25: 10-3, #14, RPI #9. +8.7 PPG, +10.8 RBs, -0.6 TOs, -0.6 blocks, +0.9 assists, +0.5 steals. Main leads us with 23.4 and 9.1.

[Wayne23]

1/1/1999: 11-3, 1-0, #17, RPI #9.

The Euro is introduced.

1/15: 14-4, 4-1, #11, RPI #7.

1/29: 18-4, 8-1, #9, RPI #12. 2 game lead in conf. +10.2 PPG, +13.1 RBs, E in TOs, -0.5 blocks, +1.1 assists, +1.2 steals.

2/12: 21-5, 11-2, #8, RPI #9. 3 game lead in conf. with 3 to play.

Clinton is acquitted by the Senate. 55 Senators vote “Not Guilty” on one count, 50-50 on the other. A 2/3 majority is necessary to convict.

2/26: 23-6, 13-3, #8, RPI #8. We win the Big East by 2 games over Xavier. +8.6 PPG, +13.6 RBs, -0.9 TOs, -0.4 blocks, +1.0 assists, +1.0 steals.

[Wayne23]

3/9: We play #9 seed Villanova, 18-10, 7-9, in the quarters.

3/10: 47-61. 26.2% shooting. Awful.

23-7, 13-3, #10, RPI #12.

3/12: #3 South. We play #14 Drexel, 19-12.

3/17: 84-55. 23, 15 for PF Scot Morn, 23, 10 for Zac Main. 48 RBs, 11 TOs.

#6 seed, #21 ranked St. John’s 23-9. We won by 11 there.

3/19: 69-62. 18, 16 for Main, with 6 steals. 21, 7 for Morn, with 4 blocks. 26 TOs, but they had 23.

It’s #2 seed, #6 ranked Oklahoma, 28-6, in the Sweet Sixteen.

3/24: 63-83.

25-8, 13-3. Overall, 268-98, .732.

3/29: Dow Jones above 10,000 for the first time ever.

[Wayne23]

All Guards Heavy Outside
Year W-L Rank RPI PPG RBs TOs Assts Steals Bks 3s Tourney
2 27-5 20 17 +5.2 - 0.4 +3.5 +1.2 +2.2 +0.2 8.0 2nd R
3 26-8 12 21 +8.0 +0.2 +5.4 +3.3 +3.7 +0.4 8.1 1st R
4 30-5 10 6 +11.1+0.9 +7.6 +4.8 +4.4 - 0.3 8.4 16
5 23-7 19 15 +10.3+1.7 +7.6 +4.1 +4.2 - 1.1 8.2 1st R
6 24-8 - 26 +9.2 -0.9 +6.0 +3.4 +3.7 -0.9 8.7 2nd R
7 27-8 13 10 +9.0 +0.3 +7.8 +1.4 +5.0 -1.1 8.9 2nd R
8 25-8 15 9 +6.3 -0.7 +7.1 +1.8 +5.6 E 8.2 2nd R
9 24-8 16 20 +8.1 -1.0 +6.7 +1.5 +5.1 -0.9 8.1 1st R
10 28-7 11 7 +9.5 -0.6 +7.5 +3.6 +4.2 +0.2 9.1 Elite 8
11 33-3 6 5 +13.5+1.6 +10.2+4.3 +6.5 E 8.3 Elite 8
Tot 255-77 .768 - +9.0 +0.1 +7.0 +2.9 +4.5 -0.4 8.4 -

All SF, PF, C Heavy Inside
Year W-L Rank RPI PPG RBs TOs Assts Steals Bks 3s Trny
2 24-8 - 34 +5.8 +7.3 E +0.6 +1.2 E 2.5 1st R
3 21-12 - 49 +1.0 +5.1 - 0.5 +0.3 +0.8 E 4.7 1st R
4 22-8 23 14 +6.7 +6.8 +2.5 +1.1 +1.2 - 1.1 4.3 1st R
5 26-8 16 12 +8.1 +10.4+0.9 +1.3 +0.8 - 0.7 6.1 2nd R
6 29-8 14 12 +8.8 +10.6- 0.6 +1.3 - 0.2 +0.4 3.5 Fnl 4
7 21-12 - 28 +3.3 +16.0- 4.3 - 1.4 - 2.5 +1.4 1.8 16
8 25-6 14 11 +7.5 +14.6- 0.2 +0.1 +0.5 +0.5 2.6 1st R
9 26-8 13 6 +8.5 +17.0- 1.3 +1.0 E +0.8 2.8 2nd R
10 29-8 10 11 +10.5+15.2- 1.8 +1.2 +0.3 +2.0 1.4 Title gm
11 25-8 10 12 +7.8 +13.7- 0.5 +0.6 +1.2 - 0.9 2.8 16
Total 248-86 .743 - +6.0 +11.7-0.6 +0.6 +0.3 +0.2 3.3 -

The comparison shows a few things. The ones that stand out for me: 1. Size does not matter much, 2. All guards works better than all bigs. Anyone else?

[PointGuard]

Welllllllll.....

The stats seem to be as expected:

All Guards do better that All Big Men for TO's, Assists, Steals, and 3's.
All Bigs do better than All Guards for Rebs and Blocks.

My impression: Good Experiment, Wayne! But rather disappointing actually that the teams did as well as they did since it seems that an All Guards or All Bigs team should be less competitive than yours were. Of course, you did well recruiting (as you always do) so that was probably a big reason for the teams doing as well as they did. Maybe if you had you had been able to let the AI do the recruiting and only recruit all guards or all bigs (I don't know of any way to force that within the parameters of DDSCB), your All Guards and All Bigs teams would have shown more deficiencies (and hence less success).

[Wayne23]

It was interesting. I think the teams were WAY too successful. Yes, part of that was recruiting, but still, having half the team playing out of position should have resulted in WAY worse results.