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Can someone just look at my team and tell me what I'm doing wrong? It seems like I can never get any big wins anymore. If you want me to post links to stuff like my roster or recent games, just tell me so. My usual game strategy is a Motion offense and Man to Man defense.

Edit 9-05-19 8:50 PM:
Thank you so much for the several people that gave me important input I will definitely try and work on improving game shape and stamina. From now on I'll run a basic offense and man to man for bots, but I already do take it easy against them so my enthusiasm usually stays above 5. I used to do crunch time but stopped since I don't want to take chances. At this point I'm probably going to have to invest in younger players and a nutritionist, but will first have to upgrade my stadium in capacity and the designer to improve income to be able to support younger players that might command higher salaries. Again, thank you so much for the info.

Last edited by Tryme79 at 9/5/2019 9:02:44 PM

Right off the bat, before I look any deeper, I can see you don’t manage minutes or game shape very well. Some of your better players have some of the worst game shapes this early in the season. The teams you are losing to are better prepared and have better game shape. There could be more, I just skimmed fast and saw that.

I cannot state the importance of game shape enough. The difference between mediocre and proficient is evident with the in-game ratings. I suggest addressing on this aspect of his team first, it could during the pre-season reset that game shape allowed his team to play well before the it deteriorated and coincided with the drop in team performance as weeks went along.

As #2 said use the allstar tactics option and get comfortable with 2 notions:
- Game Shape: this has a multiplicative effect on your player skills, so a player with bad GS will play like a player with worse skills. GS starts at 7 and can be between 1 and 9. You need to strive to have all your players on 8 or 9 to maximise their impact on the court. Ideally you want your players (at least the important ones) to log 48-75 minutes depending on ST. Lowest ST (1-2) have a soft spot for 48 or slightly more minutes, highest (8-9) should log 70 or more. Considering you play with 4 bots per conference achieving this with 3 games per week and 12 players should be easy. You could just aim for 60 minutes for all players. Keep in mind that every game against a bot you will trigger garbage time, which means a more even split in minutes between starters and backups (say with strictly follow you would get a 38-10 or 40-8 split with garbage time you'd probably get 28-20 or 30-18)
- Enthusiasm: you need allstar tactics selection for this. Every time you use Take it easy (TIE) your Enthusiasm grows and your players will give more and play better in the following games. So at the very least TIE every single Bot team and every game you are sure to win or lose regardless of whether you use more Enthusiasm or not. Against human teams you will use Normal when you think you have a chance or TIE if you think you have no chance. Enth tends to revert to 5 over time, but if you TIE every game you will sit at 11-12 permanently. TIEing with 11-12 Enth is about the same as Normalling a game with 8 Enth.

Both of these make a huge difference in your team's performance. Also for Bots, not only should you TIE them but use Game Day Preparation as well as the always use BO/mtm, so you can safely GDP balanced/normal.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/5/2019 11:01:36 AM