Suggestions for Next Year [Others - contribute!]

[BB Brand]

I asked Gary some questions. Look at both #7's below.

by Gary Gorski » Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:51 pm
BB Brand wrote:
1) What effect do the assistant coaches have on anything? If I fire all of them to save money, will my players suddenly play worse of something? My head coach can do the job the assistants can do, only better.
2) What's the point of the summer league? After I put my low-experience guys on the team, what's the point of the screen where I pick the other players to be on the summer league team? Can an option be put in to have the AI pick the other players for me?
3) When free agency comes around, can a column be added which shows each player's $ demand? Targeting players that I have a chance of reasonably signing at a glance would be a huge improvement. An interest level column would be great too. From what I've been able to figure out, I have to check each play individually to see how much money he wants - an unfun activity. If there's an easier way to do this, I'm all ears.
4) What are restricted free agents?
5) The ratings numbers on the free agents screen, like FGI, FGJ, SCR, etc.: How are those ratings determined, by my coaches? If the coaches, are the ratings an average of all of their opinions? Going back to question 1, if just myself and my head coach evaluated each player, would the ratings be different than if all of the coaches participated?
6) On the contract offers screen, what are mid and low exceptions?
7) On the player card screen, how does discipline, consistency, loyalty, motivation, and personality affect game play? Are inside and outside shooting how good the player is at each task or how often he'll perform each task?
8) On the training camp screen, what effect does weight training have on a player's performance?
9) The draft room for the D-league: Is there a way for me to pick the players for my team? At no point does the "select player" button light up. All that's available are the "CPU pick" and "CPU finish" buttons for every round of the draft. I must be missing something that I can't pick players.
9a) What is the point of the D-league? I can see a point I guess in that the noobs I send there get playing time, but what about the rest of the players on the team? If there's no way for me to pick my team (see question 9), are these guys just filling up space? I must be missing something, so educate me please.


1. Assistants contribute to the overall view of players - if you have poor assistants you may underestimate or overestimate young players
2. The summer league is for you to get a look at both your own young players and others in the league you might want to just try out and keep an eye on for later
3. Suggestion noted for the future
4. Restricted free agents are free agents where their old team has the ability to match any offer the player might accept from another team
5. The ratings are determined by a mixture of your skills as well as the coaching staff
6. Mid and low exceptions are contracts that a team over the cap (but under the luxury limit) can offer to free agents because they do not have cap space
7. Inside and outside shooting are skills in those tasks. Discipline impacts things like fouls, consistency means a player will either play pretty much the same usually with a high rating or could be all over the place with a low rating, loyalty is for free agency and resigning with you, motivation impacts a players skills each game (ie a low motivated player won't play as well) and personality impacts things like arguing in the games or getting along with teammates.
8. Helps keep the player in shape - otherwise he might gain weight and lose EN
9. Do you have control over your d-league affiliate? If not then you're not making the decisions for them.
10. The d-league lets all those free agent guys be playing games. If you get someone who is hurt and need a guy to fill in you can look around and see who from those teams you might want to call up (as long as they don't already belong to a team) or like you said you can send your young players down there to play and develop.

[Lalblc]

A Watch Player option would be nice to keep an eye on players that you like.

[BB Brand]

In the almanac, have the players and teams on every tab, not just the "player history" tab, double clickable like it is on the "player history" tab. Oh, the "draft / hall of fame" tab has the function too, but it doesn't say that it does.

[Lalblc]

Give players a putback tendency so they can put the ball back in the basket after an offensive rebound.

[Lalblc]

Let us customize the shot clock length I would love to experiment when I get bored.

[Lalblc]

Let us edit the draft classes that would be awesome.

[Lalblc]

Show us the players averages for last ten games on their player card

[Lalblc]

Maybe give players more ratings like Speed, Vertical, Strength.

Post tendencies and ratings also would be great. It would help make players play like they do in real life. Some face up in the post, some fade away, some back up and do hook shots, some drive, some up and under.

[Lalblc]

I would like to see an option to have the draft lottery end up exactly accurate to teams records I hate it when the team with the worst record dose not get the first pick.

[Lalblc]

Let us sim past the offseason all in one go I don't want to sit there and keep clicking.