SSBA

Will be a little late tonight.  I'm about to begin a 2 hour drive home, and can't do the sim until I return there.

I have quite a tough sim, play the Nets 3 times, the Magic, the Blazers and the Knicks.  Hopefully I go 3-3, but I could even go 2-4 or 1-5

Draft final standings/stats are up:
http://ssba.phillyarena.net/files/draft/

the normal draft preview won't be available until I run the FBB sim tonight.

Yao better be all-star MVP :)

man, the rooks really took it to the sophs. sophs should be embarassed.

Ok, Sim's up, and draft is up.

Draft Preview will be the typical draft preview you're used to seeing, the one with the 100 candidates.

Draft Details will be the end of year college stats.

Peja = Broken Skull?
Camby = Fractured Nose?
Kundla = Bruised Cheekbone?

When did I play the Nasty Boys?

Yikes.  I just realized how easy of a schedule I had.  My 3 hardest games were against the Bulls.  No disrespect to the Bulls, but they're not title contenders.

Still, I'll take a 16 game winning streak anytime.

1-5 sim, Yao once again increases his scoring to a blistering 37.6 ppg.

He also leads the league in rebounds per game at 15.2.

Nash leads the league in assists per game at 10, even.

These two are gonna be big contributors next year.

Yao had 57 points in a game, 1 POINT SHY of the record.

Draft Preview is...?

Antonio Lenard is a legit #2 option (at worst).  Scored 20 or more points in every game this sim.

Can someone explain to me how 5'5" 130 lb Earl Boykins gets 10 rebounds to get a triple double?  Huh?

haha, he would be fun to watch in the sim.

Damn, the spurs go 2-4 and their draft pick goes from 11th overall to 12th overall.

Guess team record must count for something, Yao is getting no Weekly/Monthly player awards.

He's gonna get something like 38.5/15.5 and not win MVP.

3-3 without kirilenko. Kaman performed as I expected. nothing too big to note though.

Great Sim for me in two ways:

1. Went 5-1 and outscored teams by 12.2 points per game in my wins. Granted, the teams that I beat were not the greatest - split with Miami, blew out the Bulls & beat the Magic & Bucks as well, but still encouraging. We also won 3 of 4 at home.

Trevor Wells averaged 29.5ppg on 50.4% from the field and 45.4% from three. He also averaged 5.2rpg, 2.3apg & 2.0spg - including a 40 point, 7 rebound, 7 steal outburst versus the Bulls.

Everyone else was fairly inconsistent, although Corey Hoiberg severely outplayed Jamal Crawford in the battle of traded players against the Bulls.

We have now won 7 of our last 9. Astonishingly, we are 9th in the East, only 2.5 games out of the 8th spot

2. The Bulls lost all 6 games that they played and are now below .500 and in the 8th spot in the East. That pick (and the trade as a whole) is looking a whole lot better.

as expected, maybe could win one more if i didnt forget to change pace, without Zach no more offensive sickness were we usually win by 20 or lose by 20, but it went as i expected, and didnt notice Webber was a C,but that's changed also now,too many trades today, so lots of confusion with DC, but it's going as expected

Hm...offense actually struggled a bit.  101.5 ppg, 44% shooting, 36% 3pt.  Not exactly struggled, but definitely less than I've become accustomed to this year.

Defense picked it up.  88.3 ppg, 39% shooting, 34% 3pt.  Won rebounding by +1, turnovers by +1.5.  Blocks by +4.

Emeka held opposing starting Pf's to 33% shooting.  Lol.  And someone told me I shouldn't put him there on the offensively superior pf's  :roll:
He also scored 23 ppg and pulled down 16 rpg, while blocking 3 shots.  Shot 43% (1.19 pps, his best of the season), and was able to stay on the court 37 minutes.

Pettit struggled a bit.  24.5 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 4 apg, 1.6 spg, 44.3% shooting, 39% 3pt.  only 1.11 pps for a guy averaging 1.33 before this sim.

Boyking was Boykins.  20.4 ppg, 9.4 apg, 6.4 rpg (with the aforementioned triple double).  only 0.7 topg.  that would be a 13.4/1 assist to turnover ratio for those not good at math.

Dilbert with 9.5, 9.5 and 4.6 blocks.  Battier with more than 2x as many steals as turnovers.  

only 4 games next sim, 3 at home, but none easy.

Well, I'm glad I got some wins under my belt in this sim, because my next sim is pretty tough:

61 Hornets @ Nets
62 No Game
63 Hornets @ Wizards
64 Hornets @ Supersonics
65 Hornets @ Timberwolves
66 No Game
67 Hornets @ Mavericks
68 No Game
69 Hornets @ Nuggets
70 No Game

Congrats to Shawn Marion and Lamar Odom in making the all-star team.

wow...what a great sim... i can see the potential of my team... im not trying to win yet im winning...went  5-2.....although it was a light schedule....not against a tough opponent... i improve my defense since the gasol for curry and radman trade... i now sits 5 spot from the bottom on points opponents scored per game...

wat impresses me this sim is eddy curry and don long:

heat 126 portland 104- q rich scoring 39 points and eddy went 23 points 10 rebs and 4 blocks

knicks 123, heat 106- eddy curry went 30 points 10 rebounds and 2 blocks , ricardo went  8 points in 8 minutes

heat 84, mavs 81- don long went 14 points 10 rebounds 2 blocks in 20 minutes.

heat 111, knicks 84- eddy curry went 34 points 10 rebounds

heat 93, bucks 64- don long 25 points 10 rebounds 2 blocks

heat 96, spurs 90- don long 14 points 10 boards

lakers 102, heat 90- eddy curry 32 points 12 rebounds  4 blocks....

eddy curry and vlad was worth pau gasol... celtics went 4-2 with pau in the line up ...so i guess everything worked out right with our trades  :P

Was this a successful sim for the Celtics? I'm torn on this because ...

3-2 sounds good but I played the Hawks, Raptors (2x) and Pistons (2x) and could have gone 5-0 as well.
Why? Well, don't want to sound too cocky but after beating the Raptors for the first time in ages I immediately lost to the Pistons because Ginobili went down with the injury bug. Missed the next game as well (loss to Raptors - their lone W this sim) before returning to help me easily beat the Pistons.

I had no idea HOW important Gino is for me, I'm 0-5 without him now.

Otherwise it was business as usual, Lenard leading the scoring ways and Gasol returning to be close to a 20/9 guy again. New addition Booth was exactly as unspectacular as he was with the Jazz, will take me some time to see his complete impact on my team. And WITH Ginobili even the defense is great ...

Furthermore, Celtics finally left the standings cellar and climbed some spots to just 4th worst team. In the loss column, i'm just one game behind the East #6 seed, so even the playoff hopes remain intact.

 8)

went 3-1 with Arenas down..


liston had a great sim, not to mention Strckland :D

Beat Ray's new team by 17, I believe.

Interesting how next sim goes with arenas and kidd running the show.

great statement ... first you posted that you had an easy schedule and afterwards you post that emeka is fantastic against minor competition  :shock:

if we look at the 3 games where he had good to great Pfs as opp. this stats can be found:
against amare: 7/21 shooting and 12/21 FTs
again amare: 5-24; and 12/21
and zach: great 17 mins but couldn´t stay more on the floor because of foultroubles

I agree he is doing a better job than expected but i am also right with the shooting porblems against good competition and his foul problems.

5-2 without Brad Miller the whole sim. Mcgrady is just ridicilous. 4 games with 40+ :shock: .  3rd scorer in the league.

With Miller i might as well went 7-0. Damn, i might give this team one more shot.

2-2 this time another 3 games away...

great job by the hawks : i have been expecting this for a while since in every game they gave me a fight... mainreason for this loss is that artest only played 12 mins
second loss against the mavs: only two points i can live with that

the new frontcourt is doing a wonderful job at the boards giving me now hope that i can challenge now the clippers,hornets and nets who are superior in this cat.

Cato had another great sim this time avg. of 10/12 and shooting 48% and 90% from FTs :shock:

destroyed the sixers by 30 with outscoring them in the last quarter after both TD and Tanner fouled out.

congrats to Melo and JO for making the ALLstar Team.

Hehe, Commish must be out of his mind. Emeka didn't make the All Star Team. :)

very nice schedule  :shock:

i am already last in homegames played but my next schedule is 8 games and 7 away....
can´t wait to see if i will get a homecourt schedule.

talk about home games, I finally had a nice record on my home games.

Now wait a second.

he played 41 minutes at pf against tim duncan, and collected 33 pts and 10 rebounds, shooting 54%.

He played 39 minutes against Howard.  24 pts, 11 rebounds, 50% shooting.

He "struggled" against Amare with 16/11/5 blocks.

Against Boozer he played 44 minutes and had 28 pts, 21 rebounds on 52% shooting.

On his rematch with Amare he played him back to back.  41 minutes one night and 39 the other.  26/24 and 22/17.

You said he'd struggle with foul trouble.  in 2 sims (16 games) he's really only had his minutes limited twice.  You can't just pick out 2 bad games and try to take a snapshot of that.  His points are up.  His rebounds are up.  His fg% is up.  His minutes are up.  And he held opposing PF's this past sim to 33% shooting (a group that included Randolph, Boozer, and Amare twice).  And, most importantly, his team's 16-0 when he's played at pf.

Yeah.  Well, that was my fault.  2 sims before the all-star game I moved him to PF, where the best player in the game is currently playing (Tim Duncan).

 :shock:

37.6 vs. 35.2
15.2 vs. 14.5
3.2 vs. 2.6
51.6% vs. 49.4%

But yes, 11-25 vs. 23-19 :)

Looks like Dean Springs was the starting sophmore SG over Gatling. Of course, Springs being unselfish took 1 shot in 29 minutes while Gatling took 18 shots in 19 minutes.

right idea but wrong answer. Emeka was still listed as C so he had a matchup against Yao and JO and lost.
For the Allstar Break only the current position listed in the roster is used not the position he played. f.ex.: Melo played SG but was an ALLstar SF
JO played PF but was listed at C etc....

Normally Emeka would have made the Allstar since the drop after Yao at C in the east is so big that he is automatic the second best but with JO this year listed as C he had a challenge for the first time ever.

*cough* 2 times player of the month vs 0

2-4 sim...about what I expected.  Adding new players always upsets the status quo.  Also all 6 were road games.  Lost a by 2 to the Jazz, by 6 to the Heat, beat the Clippers & Rockets.  Lost big to the Hornets & Magic...the latter getting me into a running game that I didn't want.

Oh so sweet these words ...   :D  


Might get to 19 before you face Sonics and Pacers in consecutive games. And if even that fails the Celts will keep it from reaching 30 ...


One word: positioning


Now if this kid could only do it EVERY game instead of every other ...
... and also against better competition than Sweets, Boykins, Okur, Mihm and Zach ...

... I would have loved to keep him. But I guess he'll get much better in his career.

Now how in the world of SSBA did TRENT DENCH and DARIUS PARRY get the assignment on PG for the Sophs ?

Rocky Elliott averages more assists (5.9) than these two TOGETHER and was a starter in all but one sim (29mpg). Dench at least scores nicely since being starter but Parry started exactly 6 games and averages 15mpg. This is a joke !!!

No wonder the Soph's got their ass kicked big time ...

Yeah, I was pretty pissed that those two made it over Andy Miles. Miles is averaging 14.6ppg, 5.9apg & shooting 46.1% from the field in 31.6mpg.

I had a rough schedule. Some tough teams and all but one on the road. So I thought a 2-4 record was bad.... until I found out Elton Brand got injured for 48 days... that's when I knew what is really bad.
I am thinking about some options now. I might consider trading him. We will see.

Damn, Miles should have been a lock there.

I believe the problem lies in the FBB coding. The program vastly overvalues steals, blocks and turnovers. I noticed that with the PotG awards: I'ver seen it countless time that a guy with much less pts, reb and ass - even in combination of these - can win the award if he gets like 2 stl, 2 blk and no TOs.

So the only reason Perry (and Dench over Miles) got in this game would be TO/Ass ratio.


In retrospect I'm glad Elliott wasn't part of this debacle. Can't be too godd for the morale of these young guys.

But it also proves we had a heck of a draft class in 2009 ...
 :shock:

Guys, all-star games are WORTHLESS

especially rookie/soph.

When playing this program recreationally, I've seen guys make a rookie/soph team while being FREE AGENTS AND NEVER PLAYING A GAME.

worthless, completely.

TD has been the all-star game MVP for 2 consecutive years :D

Box scores didn't show up for me.

Rfresh?

No need to refresh, it just my box scores not up, everyone's is up.  But anyways, beat some playoffs teams like Pacers and Sonics.

all your boxscores show up for me...

It didn't show up for me, but I can check other teams' box scores.  I try it on both explorer and Mozilla.

After trading Damp and demoted Z as an option, Bron avg 27.6ppg in five games.  Damp's replacement Boykins avg 14.8ppg and 12.4rpg in five games.

another bad sim,3-6, for the Hawks.  The season is easily offficially a wash this year.  I had a little hope for a while but now I'm gonna try some new lineup changes to see how things work out.

George Boykins gets 12.4 rpg through one sim ? With a CAREER HIGH of 15 caroms ? Damn, that guy is pure consistency ...


 :roll:  :wink:

hahahahaha.

That used to be funny,

7 years ago.

 :roll:

I'm deeply sorry.

Being not from North America I completely missed that joke in '98 thus changed the post into one of disbelieve and admiration.
 :oops:

It was actually 6 years ago, in 99.

Sorry for the confusion.

Oh it's THAT joke you mean. Great stuff, probably 9 out of 10 on the unintentional comedy scale. I just loooooove Sherlock ...

F'ing A.

I have no idea what we are talking about.

Horrible sim, but losing 3 times to the Nets and onec to the Magic is no surprise.  My 2nd half is MUCH easier, I'm glad I got all my hard sims out of the way

Mercer won the 3 point contest.  Absolute joke that Dean Drew didn't make teh rookie game (especially since my other rookie Jeremy Palcacio, who I don't even have on my DC anymore, made it...)