We address two fundamental questions in the representation theory of affine
Hecke algebras of classical types. One is an inductive formula for
$W$-characters of tempered modules, and the other is the determination of the
constants in the formal degrees of discrete series (in the form conjectured by
Reeder \cite{Re}). The former is completely different than the Lusztig-Shoji
algorithm \cite{Sh, L}, and it is more effective in a number of cases.
In this paper, we generalize the results of Barbasch-Moy to affine Hecke
algebras of arbitrary isogeny class with geometric unequal parameters, and
extended by groups of automorphisms of the root datum.
Using Lusztig's geometric classification, we find the reducibility points of
a standard module for the affine Hecke algebra, in the case when the inducing
data is generic. This recovers the known result of Muic-Shahidi for
representations of split p-adic groups with Iwahori-spherical Whittaker
vectors. We also give a necessary (insufficient) condition for reducibility in
the non-generic case.