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Ranking is based on what would ultimately help you win the most games. Free Throw, Stamina, and Experience not included

1. Outside Defense
2. Inside Defense
3. Jump Shot
4. Handling
5. Rebounds
6. Passing
7. Jump Range
8. Inside Shooting
9. Driving
10. Shot Blocking

I would put passing at 3 or 4. and that chart is not always right, depending on what position the person is.

Last edited by shoe lover at 12/21/2010 16:18:46

Maybe you put Inside shooting a bit too low (I would at least have it above Jump Range), but I like your choice. I think this also shows that outside tactic is stronger than inside in BB. For example: with Motion or Run and gun, outside shooters take a huge % of shots. With Look inside and Low post, PF and C take maybe half of team's shots and most of time even less.

1.Gaurds, maybe small forwards
2.Big men, maybe small forwards
3.Gaurds, power forwards
4.Gaurds and small forwards, but nice to have it in other positions as well
5.Small forwards and big men
6.Gaurds especially point
7.Gaurds, small forwards
8.Forwards and centers
9.Gaurds, nice to have small forwards as well with these skills
10.Sometimes small forwards, all the time Power forwards and Centers

I know some will disagree with my ranking. I put OD over ID because many times you see the best Centers averaging 10-15 pts a game where good shooters average 25 pts. Jump shot seems to be most effective in the offense so i put that as 3. Handling might be lower than 4 and perhaps it may not be that important, but it can make tremendous difference if you have very poor handling and it can really impact what offense tactic you use so it's why i rank it that high. Possessions in the game is based alot on rebounds so I put that in 5. Now Passing can arguably be important so I had hard time with it, it can be really important in some offense tactics like Princeton but then again you can get away with it more in inside focus offense so it sort of in a mix, I can see it rank as high as 4 and as low as 9. When it comes to shooting alot of the shots being taken and decided by a player to take is based on jump shot so I put that at 7. Inside Shooting & Driving some will argue against me on this I know, all those 9 skills are somewhat important but someone has to be rank 8 & 9. Reason I had IS so low is because JS can outweigh in points scored in the game if your IS is low, you can get away with very low IS in outside focus offense with good JS and score like 130-140 pts a game. Driving is hardest for me to evaluate of the rest, seems to me thou without it you can still do just about anything in the offense still. Lastly Shot Block, well legendary blocking skills compared to atrocious blocking might make a difference of 2-3 blocks a game, that means if a player takes 2-3 shots and no blocks he will make 0-2 of the shots where if he gets all of them blocked he'll get 0 shots made, that's only 0-6 points on average SB difference make, I can't see all the other skills would be less important than shot blocking.

Last edited by Coach_Gil at 12/21/2010 16:41:07

Yes obviously in inside focused offense IS would be much more important, but it's like you pointed out Motion or Run & Gun can get you to 150 points still with no IS and all OS. The margin between ranks 3 to 9 on my list is minuscule, they are all very close among them so its almost misleading to show IS rank 8 out of 10 but like i just said someone has to be ranked that low

Last edited by Coach_Gil at 12/21/2010 16:43:34

Every skill is important.

Building off a base of OD, ID, REB would be lovely.

This is a flawed argument.

The ranking of skills ultimately becomes what sort of player you are trying to get.

Obviously for a C, ID would be much more important than OD and vice versa for a guard.

Blocking is always listed at the end, I wonder why nobody likes this skill... If it had a more obvious (=measurable impact) everybody would love it...

This is a flawed argument.

The ranking of skills ultimately becomes what sort of player you are trying to get.

Obviously for a C, ID would be much more important than OD and vice versa for a guard.

I did my ranking from cumulative perspective, obviously there will be variation based on what kind of team you have and what kind of opponent. But when accumulating everything, there are a bit more of the outside focus team than inside focus and as a result I gave more weight to the outside focus skills