DDS22 Final File Updates (PLEASE READ)

[emplep7]

I want to take the time to thank you all again for being patient through this process as there has been a lot of great input from GMs behind the scenes to try to make this as seamless as possible (although I'm not sure I'm going to be here for the next transition).

The final file is upon us and we are really excited to get the Regular Season started!

With that said, we want to state the final changes to the file and some things to consider moving forward:

1. BLK Global Rating Decrease

We understand the feedback around not doing global changes and have always tended to do this in the past, so we have decided to perform the BLK rating decrease to ALL players using a similar tiered approach that we have for other ratings. 71 is the new high (as opposed to 70 before), but all players received a dock on their BLK rating in the updated file. This should remove the chance that the cutoff of 60 hurt those players who were at 60, but helped the players 59 and below and should make things more fair moving forward.

Reasoning: To make this more fair for the players that were right at the threshold for a decrease previously.

2. FG_RA Increase

I know we said we weren't going to make any changes, but we did make a subtle shift after some further testing to slightly increase FG_RA with the biggest tiered increases coming at the bottom of the league (and subsequently benefitting mostly guards).

Reasoning: When comparing our file to the DEFAULT file, every other shooting rating is within 5% on the high or low end on average (checked league wide and across each positional group) with the exception of FG_RA. Further testing proved that the DUNK Rate was not as strong as previous iterations of the game, which led to an increase (~5% on average) in FG_RA for players in our file. This should help modernize our ratings a bit from the previous engines and allow us to collect this data for future adjustments, if necessary, after this season.

3. Preference Changes

We will be allowing each GM up to five (5) full preference modifications (similar to pre-season) within the first two weeks of the Regular Season (new GMs will be able to make these changes within their first two weeks as a GM until the first season has concluded).

Everyone will still have the standard 20 preference changes throughout the season on top, but this will allow GMs to use what knowledge they gained through pre-season or testing to make wholesale changes to their players to start the season.


4. Weight Increases

We will allow each GM to provide weight changes (up to 20lb maximum) for up to five (5) players as well during the same time period as mentioned above. If you miss this within the first two weeks of the regular season you are out of luck.

5. Future Changes

We want this to work and be perfect just like the rest of you and appreciate all of the input from the veteran GMs who have reached out to provide constructive solutions during this time and really do thank you all who have done that.

With that in mind, we are reserving the right to make adjustments in between seasons as necessary based on what is being observed in the league after each full season. We don't think we will need to make massive changes, but slight tweaks here and there might be needed once all 30 GMs give it their best to try and find the next game-breaking bug.

If you ever have suggestions throughout the season, please send them to Andre and myself and we will look into and test these changes as the season comes to a close.



Thank you all again for your patience, I can't say that enough and I don't know about you guys, but I am super excited (I know Dennis and Gary are) to get this season started and try this engine out!

Thanks!
The Admin Team

[Silogical]

I like all this except for FG-RA buff. I thought shooting might make a comeback but it looks like post play will be too strong for anyone to want to shoot.

[hardenwithnod]

Thanks for the hard work! I really do! I am joking around a lot of times, hope yall realize that. I am honestly not frustrated by you guys, as you guys are doing your best to make this transition as smooth as possible. I am just annoyed by Gary the developer since he always say he tries to make the game more in tunes with the modern game, but then he does the opposite. Also after reading some of his replies on the WS forums, it irked me at how stubborn he can be lol.

[Marcos_Beck]

Amazing work right there, Jon and Andre. I’m extremely excited to try this engine out as well! It looks promising and much harder to find ways to break it, finally.

It seems like we’re going to play basketball now, instead of NBA Jam where players got to the paint and dunked it all the time

[Rizzo]

Excellent work as always guys!

[andrei]

Great work and I am happy that we are moving closer to more reasonable start rather. Marcos said it right with NBA Jam that we had with DDS19

So for weight increase - there is an assumption that it affects big guys which is reasonable - but what about guards? Is the idea that driving guards will benefit from a few extra lbs?

[Ramcus]

Fair enough. Thanks for all the hard work, admin team! Can't say that I love all the changes, but it is what it is, and it'll be a good challenge for me to adapt to the new engine with my current squad. Above all else, I am still excited for the new season.

[blackice]

Thanks to the admin team, this took a tremendous amount of work and hours I imagine so thank you guys, truly.

[emplep7]

Great work and I am happy that we are moving closer to more reasonable start rather. Marcos said it right with NBA Jam that we had with DDS19

So for weight increase - there is an assumption that it affects big guys which is reasonable - but what about guards? Is the idea that driving guards will benefit from a few extra lbs?

There might be a slight benefit to percentages when driving into the post with increased weight, but their STP percentages will also see a dip as well so you need to balance the offense vs defense for guards where thats less of a concern for big men.

[Vann_the_Red]

Many thanks to the admin team for the work!

[Sharkn20]

Can we give an extra day to start the league? First SIM on the 12th?

[cb4raptorscb4]

Great stuff! I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing in this engine lol

[rh0xxy]

Thanks for all the work. Let's get it on!

[thecoolestjedi]

Appreciate all the hard work and adjustments to get us to the point. Really cool we have so many workarounds to fix commonly held problems.

[mgtr81]

Thanks for all the hard work, it's really appreciated.

[bt]

Great stuff guys, much appreciated.

[Andrewu91]

Yeah I ain't the lovey dovey type, but I see all the hard work being done the past few weeks and I appreciate it. Thanks

[mgtr81]

3. Preference Changes

We will be allowing each GM up to five (5) full preference modifications (similar to pre-season) within the first two weeks of the Regular Season (new GMs will be able to make these changes within their first two weeks as a GM until the first season has concluded).

Just to avoid any confusion, we have time until Sim #10, right?

Thanks in advance.

[Flaming Homer]

Since we started the season at the 11th we will instruct the Simmer to process the last preference modifications at Thursday 25th of August.
I think that would be right before Sim #11.

[mgtr81]

Since we started the season at the 11th we will instruct the Simmer to process the last preference modifications at Thursday 25th of August.
I think that would be right before Sim #11.

Understood. Thanks.