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Don't forget, rebounding isn't just getting the ball yourself, it's also boxing out your man too.

Yes, doesn't boxing out your man require defense? Since in that position you're not getting the rebound, you're guarding your man and pushing him away from the basket so you can rebound the ball. Maybe the game engine works different though.

i also doubt it that it plays a role, and for me boxing out for a rebound is very different in playing defence because you take your matchup on the back.

Don't forget, rebounding isn't just getting the ball yourself, it's also boxing out your man too.

Are you referring to this game or basketball in real life?

Are you referring to this game or basketball in real life?

I could be wrong, it's been a while since i've checked but last i heard (and as far as i know it's still this way) boxing out for a rebound is definitely a factor in the game mechanics.

Okay...really? So then inside defence would play a role in boxing out on defensive rebounds, but what about offensive rebounds...can you please clarify/confirm exactly whats going on once a shot is missed on either end of the floor? This is all getting a little confusing.

Shaq - i think a lot of it is just the wording you use. I've noticed a lot of the time when you post you seem to speak from opinion or the way you think things work (or should work) but you write as if it's 100% fact that this is the way the game works. That can be a dangerous way to talk in the Help forums if you're not giving out 100% facts and may be why some people are 1 balling your posts so you might just need to watch out for that is all (this doesn't include me, i rarely rate posts at all)

Hadron - again i'm not 100% sure and i've never been very good on breaking mechanics down piece by piece so i might not be able to give you all the information you're after. I mainly work from information i get and then go by "feel" and experimentation with my players from there.
Defensively, i'm not even sure that ID does play a part. Getting a defensive rebound could just be a by-product of playing good defense and being near the ball but not actually factored into the rebound part of it itself. I do believe that rebounding (and the rebounding of the rest of your team) is what determines how many rebounds you get (and later in the game stamina probably starts to take effect also) and the position you play is a factor as well.

Offense rebounds in particular would just be rebounding matchups i'd think but like i said before as well, defensive zones obviously play a part here too.

Okay, thanks for that DireWolf. So I'm ditching the notion of boxing out then and going back to square one where the rebounding attribute is all that matters in determining rebounds. Fine. And the thing about positioning is something that you think might be how it works but may not actually be there in the game code at all. That's what I'm going with then. Unless someone brings new assumptions and confusion into this thread.

Please don't.

Well, in my mind boxing out is a rebounding thing, it's not a defensive thing (you still try and box out if you're going for an offensive rebound, it's just harder to do) and i do believe that boxing out is a part of rebounding in game mechanics as well.

Maybe that's where the confusion was coming in to it?

Either way, to try and put some sort of a summary on things (or at least my view on them) there are probably a lot of factors for offensive rebounding in particular with rebounding skill being the major winner by far but shot selection, opponents rebounding skill, players position on the court when the shot goes up, even stamina later in the game would all come in to play i'd say. The only one that you can really control here is rebounding though.