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I am so sick of my players being benched with 5 minutes to go in the game when I am trying to get them their 48 minutes for training. This week I had my PG lined up as all three positions on the depth chart for the PG (1, 2 and 3), but because I was beating the crap out of my opponent, the computer benched Clitheroe (an 18 year old MVP potential guard) after he played just 43 minutes. Now I have to play him in another game at the point, taking minutes away from another trainee. This has to be fixed.

There has to be a "Keep starters in during blowout" option.

There is, already. Assuming you're training PG, as follows:

Dress only 9 players
PG - Trainee as starter, backup, and reserve
SG - Player #2 as starter / Player #3 as backup and reserve
SF - Player #4 as starter / Player #5 as backup and reserve
PF - Player #6 as starter / Player #7 as backup and reserve
C - Player #8 as starter / Player #9 as backup and reserve.

Set SFDC, Let them Play, and hope your trainee isn't a thug (or defending someone that he's gonna foul alot).

When the blowout rule triggers, the coach excludes starters from playing. So he'll first go through and put the #1 backup in at each position. If there're still any starters on the court, he'll look for any players dressed that aren't starters and aren't currently on the court (reserves, or players not in the depth chart that are dressed), and sub them in for the starter he couldn't pull -- aka, your trainee.

It's not perfect, and it can very much cost you a game if you get an injury or foul out from your trainee early, but it *WILL* get you 48 minutes for your trainee barring injury or foul out.

Hi

Well I'm not having any trouble with getting my trainees to play 48 minutes exact apart from foul trouble or injury.

Here how it goes:
If you train one position for example PG
u need to play with maximum 9 players. all apart from PG should have a backup and none at all a reserve player. PG should have the two spots blank. You also can't leave any player on the match roster that is not assigned to any position.
Also the substitutions need to be set to Strictly follow depth chart and foul trouble set to let them play.

With two positions for example PG/SG
You do the same trick but with 8 players and PG and SG both having the backup and reserve spot blank and substitutions and foul trouble set the same as above.

It works great for me if there are no injuries or foul trouble for the trainees I always get exactly 48minutes no matter if I win or lose by 5 or 50 points.

For proof you can check my matches;)

Cheers mate.

A bit different than response above but it works for me.

Last edited by polskidude at 8/1/2009 2:14:30 PM

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