Season 1 Pre Season Super Mega Match Thread

for both games? no worries.

 

Yeah, same. It's drawn on too long but I needed the games in order to fix any errors in the db before the real thing starts.

 

and it was the best way of deciding divisions itbt

 

Closer than it should have been.

 

Dawes and Simpson OP. Simpson's meant to be a ruck who does a bit of tackling and tapping and not much else too. Not sure how that one happened.

 

Nah, it shouldn't have happened. He shouldn't have near the ability rack up touches or take uncontested marks or get clearances as most rucks so I don't know what happened. I'm putting it down as an outlier in my notes and if things like that keep happening I'll need to take another look at it. McEvoy's been dominating heaps too and I don't know why. Leuenberger had a pretty OP game once or twice and there's Sinclar too but I think they've been the only examples.

 

I think it's a fault in the fatigue system. Because Simpson's ability is set to 'doesn't cover much ground' which equates to 'rest' in game, he doesn't get as tired as he's not working hard but he's still around the ball anyway due to being a ruck so when he's around the ball he's not tired as he hasn't been running around thanks to his ability. And as he's not tired he's in better shape to get the ball.

I think. It seems that all the rucks who are underperforming are 'normal' and those who are overperforming are 'doesn't cover much ground'

 

Just seen Jonas too actually. That one I missed as I wasn't even looking for it. That one baffles me as he was on Sinclair all day on 100% lockdown duties.

he's 32/100 for crumbs and 22/100 for clearance which is near as low as it gets (only ones who are around there are like the Nathan Brown/Ben Rutten/Zac Dawson's of the world) too so I don't know why. He's not got a high disposal rating nor is he good athletically, the only skills he has above 68 are Ground defense and 1 on 1 defense.

Only thing that it might be is that because he was playing on Sinclair, he was playing as a key position when he's not normally a key back. As we've seen, key backs are prone to having 25-30 possession games every so often (while small backs locking down on small forwards don't) and because he was playing 'key' that game he was prone to the same bug that key backs are prone to. I've seen blokes like Nathan Brown have 30 disposal games despite being really low for crumbs/clearance so it's definitely a bug.

We'll see next game though, he's the 4th tall in the side so he won't be playing key, we'll see if he racks it up there if so it's a bug and I don't know how to fix it as it quite simply shouldn't be happening.

 

Think dawson simpson's strength rating was a little high. Perhaps that was the root of the problem. I'll run a few tests to see after the pre-season.