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Since its the last week or two of the season, i wanted to train stamina because i have a lot of players who have below respectable stamina, and they are young players. This time of the season is the only time i'd train stamina or free throw. Am i waisting my time training stamina?

It looks like i might make the playoffs and i want my players to be in shape and not to get too tired. I think i have a few players with strong or better stamina. My team also has the habit of letting teams back into games, i think stamina played a big part in those games.

So when do you train stamina? And what is your experience with training stamina, how well do your players play?

For a D5 team, stamina is not as important. It is far cheaper for you to just buy new talent then to spend weeks training up stamina. Whats the point of training stamina if the player is going to be replaced every few weeks anyway?

Apart from that, stamina can become a useful skill. It is extremely important for teams that don't have much depth as it enables players to play longer without being tired. This also depends on how low the stamina level of your players are.

Stamina is usually trained during 2 game weeks as generally speaking it is not worth wasting a 3 game week over. Personally I think stamina is an important skill for higher division teams but like I said earlier, D5 teams can just buy in talent a lot quicker.

Don't listen to them, you should aim to get everyone at least proficient in stamina, that way all of your best players can play for long periods of the game and you save a lot of money not buying expensive backups.

So you get everyone to to proficient stamina, have no bench and play them all 48 minutes a game. So you have 2 games a week and everyone gets 96 minutes a week minimum then come update and they all drop in gameshape

Good work there! That extra stamina might just give you an edge...cause you know...you'll need every bit of stamina you can playing against proficient GS players.

I agree... No matter how high your stamina is, you can't afford to play your best players as starters two games in a row every week... because their game shape will drop significantly.

The benefits of stamina can be seen in the 4th quarters of games, when players with higher stamina will perform better and can turn a game around for you.

Having everyone with stamina above mediocre is enough in my opinion. Most of my men have Average/Respectable stamina and are doing pretty well.

Actually I know of a team that plays their players close to 96 minutes a week most weeks and trains game shape. Their shape slowly goes down but occasionally one will foul out or get injured and pop back up. They all pop back up at the allstar break. Very interesting but not for 99% of teams.

That is a completely different strategy though. You virtually do no training with that and just buy veterans to play games. I wouldn't recommend any new low division team to do that. At least not until you have a good fundamental understanding of the game and how training works

Correct and in fact I would never recomment that strategy to anyone playing at any level. Just saying that it can be done.

Lol, no i'm not team training any more, i only did that for two weeks early in march. Since then i've been focusing on my gaurds, mainly my young point gaurd and my younger shooting gaurd. Yes i'll continue boosing key gaurd skills the rest of the season and through out next season, if i get a couple of big men in the draft i'll work on big man skills.

Next year i'll be focusing on a few areas, for gaurds, i'll focus on outside def, passing, jump range and jump shot, and a lot of driving. Sometime during the season if i have time, i'll train big men skills, mainly, inside shot. I know you need inside def and rebounding as well. But next year i want my team to become more of a low post team and score inside. This season we've only been a jump shooting team.

I need some big men very badly, I would love to get two 7'0 centers and a 6'10 power forward in this years draft. I want my gaurds to do most of the passing so i have to train passing a lot next year, as well as driving. So i guess i won't train stamina at all, and just focus on key skills, whether its bigs or gaurds/small forwards.

It sounds like your trying to improve everything at once and train both big men and guards next season. By switching between outside and inside training u will end up with some ok players but you won't be able to create the stars needed to move to higher divisions. Your better off to stick with training your guards and buy your big men off the transfer market. Big men aged 26-30 are reasonably cheap to buy these days.

Last edited by aussie dude at 3/29/2011 12:40:21 AM