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how effective is the coach in deciding who should play in the game? i usually set it to coach picks from depth chart. but i was wondering if let coach decide would be a better option. i'm worried that if i choose that setting then the coach will be putting players all over the place.

He will play the best player available at a position regardless of how you set your depth chart(mostly). So he isn't going to do something crazy and play your center at the PG position.

He will play the best player available at a position regardless of how you set your depth chart(mostly). So he isn't going to do something crazy and play your center at the PG position.

unless his center is better at PG than his PGs are and he already has an other center fielded...
:)

It works like this:
say you have 5 men on the field, and 7 on the bench.
your playing PF needs rest.
What your coach will do is look at the 7 players on the bench and decide which of these 7 would be the best PF and field him.

In most cases nothing odd happens, but if you go to a game with a big variety in players (meaning some very good and some very bad) you could get crazy things.
e.g. say you have 6 very good players, and 6 very bad, and the 5 on the filed are the good, then if he replaces you PF, the 6th good will come in on the Pf, since he's probably the best PF on the bench, but maybe he is actually is a SG. Then 5 minutes later your SG needs to be replaced, and your PF who was benched first is rested now, so he can play SG. You end up with a PF and SG playing opposite positions.
However odd, this COULD happen.

If you know how it works however, you can see such things comming, and according to it can set your tactical decision.

thank you...that was the answer i was looking for. to be honest my starting PG is 6'7" so i don't think it really matters if players go out of position at least at this point.

true...but my starting point guard and back up small forwards can play down low. i just didn't feel like putting that in my last post.

do you mean by that, that if I have a center who's 7'1", it wouldn't give me any advantage to a center who's 6'8"?

thank you

do you mean by that, that if I have a center who's 7'1", it wouldn't give me any advantage to a center who's 6'8"?

Correct. If you have a 7'1 strong rebounder, and 6'8" strong rebounder they would be as equally likely to get a rebound, assuming they were in the same game situation with the rest of the players and tactics being the same. The 7'1" might take advantage of his height, and the 6'8 guy have better strength, jumping ability, timing, positioning, and anticipation of where the ball will carom to. But these difference have been collapsed into identical rebounding skills.

For training purposes, the 7'1 guy will train faster, because he can improve the underlying skills more (he can improve his strength and jumping more, learn how to positioning, etc.). The shorter guy won't be able to improve as much as he has already achieved more of his potential simply to be able to compete with the taller player.

do you mean by that, that if I have a center who's 7'1", it wouldn't give me any advantage to a center who's 6'8"?

I think it might win you the tip off.