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Delirious_Beard posted...

NBA is in a similar position to baseball in that the game has been optimized to an extent where everyone knows how valuable 3's and drawing fouls are so it's all any team tries to do

nerds ruined sports

But nobody tried to counter the Min/Max Stat nerds by balancing the game so that there needs to be judicious judgement used by the Coach / Players / Team on what type of point should be attempted, at & when.

That requires a little bit of game play design balancing.

That's why I'm a big proponent of the Creating Zones for Point scoring purposes, given how much easier it is the closer you are to the basket, it creates a game balancing effect where you decide if you want to make a more guaranteed point or take a risk by going further out.

The fact that nobody is trying to "Balance the Game" since Stat Nerds have come to expose the current weakness in the NBA is baffling, it's like nobody asked what "Game Designers" would do to balance out the Stat Nerds who try to Min/Max the game.

Before Stat Nerds, the concept of turning everything into a Long Range Shooting game was a odd concept, it wasn't until the stat nerds came in, that the game was changed.

It's time to change the game again, by bringing balance to the Court.