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I like the AP arrow specifically BECAUSE it rewards a team for hustling. If my team is forcing every held ball, then I get half a turnover for a held ball (and we track it that way on stats - 1/2 a steal when we do it, 1/2 a turnover when we get tied up). With the AP system, I know that I am getting some benefit from what my team does, and the benefit seems appropriate. We didn't get a clean steal, so we get half a turnover for tying somebody up.
With the jump ball, the taller player is winning most of the jumps. We reward the character trait of height, and the singular athletic ability to jump when we do jump balls. I don't know that this favors me or the other team on any given night. But I do know with a jump ball, we can potentially force all the held balls and yet never get a possession out of it (if the other team wins all the jumps). I don't like that idea. I know with the AP, I get half of them guaranteed, and it seems about right.
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