Way Too Early 2022 Wishlist

[PointGuard]

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[Wayne23]

I play out every game, but at top speed, slowing down at the end if it's close. I regularly see PGs showing in the lineup as playing C. This makes no sense. They have no minutes in my depth chart so far out of position. This needs a fix. No idea what effect, if any, it has on what's actually going on in the game, but still...

[jlemmen43]

I play out every game, but at top speed, slowing down at the end if it's close. I regularly see PGs showing in the lineup as playing C. This makes no sense. They have no minutes in my depth chart so far out of position. This needs a fix. No idea what effect, if any, it has on what's actually going on in the game, but still...

This is 2021: your zero minute PG decided to identify as a garbage minute Center.

[PointGuard]

Wayne, I play out my games so I control where my players are playing, but I don't recall ever seeing a PG playing C on my opponent's team. Weird, but you tend to have the weird occur...maybe you should stop playing in outer space.

Are you seeing this occurring on both teams when simming??? Have you seen it occur when you play out a game, rather than sim a game???

Is it happening often enough that Gary would see it if you sent your files to him?

[Wayne23]

I don't sim any more- ever. I see this in the lineup as I play the game out at max speed; it happens regularly.

[PointGuard]

Tried to replicate this...just not seeing it happen. But since it's happening frequently for you, seems best for you to report it to Gary and send him your game files.

[adamj95]

I’d like to see playoff stats be included in a players career stats and not be a separate amount. I’ve had players who would have set career records fall short because playoff games aren’t counted in career stats but just playoff stats.

[PointGuard]

Got it.

[RutgersFan1990]

First, let me say I just discovered this game approximately a week ago and it is great. Fantastic job devs. Now for my nitpicks

1. I have my own computer ranking/rating system that is somewhat similar to Massey Ratings. Because I am a nerd I wrote some code to parse the website output from this game so I could run my ratings on my associations, and what I found is that home court advantage seems to be too great. Here is my output for the REAL college season through 12/30:

The teams are connected.
HFA is 3.3835681821839745 points.
SD is 15.123438740054794 points.
There are 1610 degrees of freedom.
There are 358 teams.
#1 Baylor [12-0] - 2397.20
#2 Auburn [12-1] - 2197.37
#3 Arizona [11-1] - 2161.64
#4 LSU [12-1] - 2153.72
#5 Michigan St [11-2] - 2133.50
#6 Kansas [10-1] - 2132.86
#7 Colorado St [9-0] - 2116.89
#8 Duke [11-1] - 2113.13
#9 Iowa St [12-0] - 2107.51
#10 Gonzaga [11-2] - 2087.98

HFA is 3.38 points. This is pretty consistent with other seasons (except last year when the lack of fans made it lower, something like 2 points).

Here is my output through Jan 7 in my current association:

The teams are connected.
HFA is 7.255359661595426 points.
SD is 16.489479093984702 points.
There are 2111 degrees of freedom.
There are 357 teams.
#1 Dayton [16-0] - 2217.81
#2 Wisconsin [16-0] - 2182.44
#3 Illinois [14-1] - 2146.02
#4 Duke [13-2] - 2093.60
#5 Gonzaga [14-1] - 2014.12
#6 Kentucky [11-5] - 1964.47
#7 Michigan State [11-3] - 1963.38
#8 Saint Marys [15-3] - 1953.22
#9 Virginia [13-2] - 1940.36
#10 Missouri [13-2] - 1938.59

The HFA is 7.26, which is far too high.

Note, on the good side, the SD (basically performance variance) seems very consistent with real life. P.S. Kentucky played a brutal schedule..

2. It would be nice if the box scores fit onto a screen without having to scroll.

3. The play/sim screen:
(i) Show the records after the games are played instead of just before
(ii) If possible, the top ranked games screen should show top ranked games using the rankings AS OF the game being played. Currently, it shows the correct ranking (i.e. rank as of game being played) but it selects which games to show based on the CURRENT rankings. i.e. if a team drops out of the top 25 their game will no longer show on "top ranked games" if I go back to that date.

That's all for now, thanks again for a fantastic game.

[Wayne23]

Love the stats stuff and yes, I agree that home court advantage is too great. Nice to have the data to back it up though.

Good suggestions!