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Blow-out rules for scrimmages

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From: JayP
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Date: 11/29/2007 9:36:11 PM
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I think the blow-out substitution rules should be tweaked or removed for scrimmage games. A lot of times in a scrimmage game the bench players are better than the starters because teams use scrimmages to keep game shape up on lesser players. It kind of defeats the purpose of bringing in the reserves in a blow-out if the reserves are the better players.

I don't know if it would be too hard to do a sort of Anti-LCD blow-out rule, where the coach evaluates the starter and the reserve like he would under normal LCD but instead puts the worse player in the game. If this is too tricky or not worth it, it might be better to just eliminate the different substitution patterns for a blow-out.

From: jimrtex

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8626.2 in reply to 8626.1
Date: 11/30/2007 4:21:51 AM
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Or maybe an anti-90 rule in scrimmages. Surely the coach tracks the minutes of players and knows that more than 90 a minutes/week will harm their game shape, or maybe the inverse - the coach is probably trying to get his scrimmage starters into better game shape.

From: JayP

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8626.3 in reply to 8626.2
Date: 11/30/2007 5:28:20 AM
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Well, we probably won't get anything that we'll make managing training too easy, and i'm okay with that. It just seems that the whole reason for having a separate substition pattern for blow-outs doesn't apply to scrimmage games.

From: jimrtex

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8626.4 in reply to 8626.3
Date: 11/30/2007 5:35:34 AM
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Or maybe they should simply go to the players who are in bad game shape and low minutes in all blowouts? That would be a reasonable coaching decision.