'TeamChem' (teams.dbf) Variable

[Shing]

Searched but couldn't find anything to help on this topic.

Does anyone know the value of the 'teamchem' (Team Chemistry) variable in the teams.dbf files on NBA Live?

I'm going to test a few seasons myself, once I've posted this, with the values set to different levels to see what I can find. But I was wondering if anyone could save me the trouble?

[Shing]

I have returned from my foray into the world of teamchem testing and come back empty handed.

I set chemistry to 0, 1, 20 and 99 (instead of the default -1 for each team), and it didn't have any spectacularly outrageous results either way

[Andrew]

I've never really played around with it but the field has been there since before team chemistry was actually implemented in the game so it may be a redundant field.

[Shing]

Darn. Thx for the info.

I thought perhaps it would modify itself as the season progressed, but it didn't. When I simmed my fantasy league in Live 07, teams who traded less tended to succeed much more, but then again that didn't seem to happen during Live 06 - which I'm currently using.

Back to drawing board.

[Andrew]

I could be wrong of course but its presence before team chemistry was an advertised feature and the fact the values don't change do suggest it's an unused field or perhaps its influence is so minute that it doesn't really make a different either way. My money's on it being unused though.