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Do you guys compare yours and opponent's DMI as your game preparation? How much importance do you put to DMI? Is DMI credible to look at?

I tried to find a DMI thread but I went thru like five to six pages and could not fine one so I created a new one.

Thaanks

DMI could give you indications on the progress and/or form of your opponents players.

There are ofcourse plenty of ways to compare and prepare for games.

I find Gamereports, Salary and Gameshape/DMI useful .

Most important are gamereports, but they take the most time to read too. Sometimes you even need to dive into play-by-play to find out defensive matchups and other stuff.

Salary is an "easy" way to rank/compare your opponents players, somewhat accurate for all players in the beginning of the season and less for training/old(33+). Multitalented players have lower salary than their contribution on the court and this could be "found" in the gamereports. Older players drop in skill during the season but keep their salary through the season. Training increases skills but salary remain the same. Gameshape/DMI could help you track this over time.

Notes:
Some players perform better/worst in certain tactics.
Against bad opponents your players get better ratings.

So don't look too much on DMI, trust the Gamereports more.

I agree with your points.

DMI is an expression of skill and game shape put into one metric. I don't find it very useful to compare players though because - similar to salary - it seems to be quite high for players with a few high skills and rather low for all-round players.
Players skills (as _wella_ described) usually only change for old or trained players. That means most changes in DMI correlate to the status of game shape and thus allow some estimation of game shape sub levels.

Personally, I use it only for my own players to see how close they are to lower or higher game shape levels when I want to decide who to start in the next game.
However, you can also apply this to opponent's players if you have a record of their DMI over time (buzzer-manager has it!).