Post by 20s Navidad on Jan 18, 2015 14:44:48 GMT -6
I did this in 3003 and 3006 and thought it was definitely time to take a look at the disitribtion of ratings league wide again. I will go through each category in detail for 3012 and then provide a side by side comparison of each season at the end to see how ratings are changing. One thing to note is that I used all Free Agents and Draftable players for this season while I know in a previous season I only used rostered players.
Wilt is the king of inside scoring in TMBSL. One interesting thing to note is that the median grade for inside scoring has moved up to B- from C+ in the last installment. There has been a concentrated effort to try to boost shooting percentages of big men so they can be a larger part of the game offensively. It appears that this might be working with the slightly higher inside scoring grades overall.
After going multiple seasons without a single player with A+ outside, the league now has 3 in Jamaal Wilkes, Adrian Dantley and Alvin Robertson. It will be interesting to see if all three keep their grade in TC or if any of the 20 guys with A outside make the jump and join the elite. Overall, outside scoring might be the most normal distribution of any category. There is a good amount of guys in every category.
Handling is a very interesting category as generally, only PGs have elite ratings here. However, there are some non-PGs who have high handling. Looking at the distribution, if your PG doesnt have A or better handling, you are in the bottom third of the league as 23 guys have A+ or A grades there. However, handling grades are often not completely representative of a players ability to handle the ball effectively.
Defense, as always, needs to be viewed through a different lense than any other category. The median grade here is B. If you are not B+ or higher on defense, you are simply average or below average defensively. There are 135 players with A- or better grades defensively and there are 145 starting players for the league's 29 teams.
This is the only category without an A+ rated player. The grades here are pretty evenly distributed around the most common C grade.
You can see that the grade distribution has actually stayed pretty similar throughout the years.
Wilt is the king of inside scoring in TMBSL. One interesting thing to note is that the median grade for inside scoring has moved up to B- from C+ in the last installment. There has been a concentrated effort to try to boost shooting percentages of big men so they can be a larger part of the game offensively. It appears that this might be working with the slightly higher inside scoring grades overall.
After going multiple seasons without a single player with A+ outside, the league now has 3 in Jamaal Wilkes, Adrian Dantley and Alvin Robertson. It will be interesting to see if all three keep their grade in TC or if any of the 20 guys with A outside make the jump and join the elite. Overall, outside scoring might be the most normal distribution of any category. There is a good amount of guys in every category.
Handling is a very interesting category as generally, only PGs have elite ratings here. However, there are some non-PGs who have high handling. Looking at the distribution, if your PG doesnt have A or better handling, you are in the bottom third of the league as 23 guys have A+ or A grades there. However, handling grades are often not completely representative of a players ability to handle the ball effectively.
Defense, as always, needs to be viewed through a different lense than any other category. The median grade here is B. If you are not B+ or higher on defense, you are simply average or below average defensively. There are 135 players with A- or better grades defensively and there are 145 starting players for the league's 29 teams.
This is the only category without an A+ rated player. The grades here are pretty evenly distributed around the most common C grade.
You can see that the grade distribution has actually stayed pretty similar throughout the years.
