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I'm going to very slightly disagree with your last statement, as there appears to be a slight element of random in GS. Here are my results from last week:

0 minutes=mediocre
0 minutes=mediocre
16 minutes=mediocre
27 minutes=respectable
31 minutes=strong
35 minutes=average
46 minutes=strong
50 minutes=strong
53 minutes=respectable
59 minutes=respectable
59 minutes=respectable
60 minutes=strong
61 minutes=respectable
63 minutes=strong
64 minutes=respectable
68 minutes=respectable
75 minutes=strong

Going by this singular example, it can be assumed that playing at least 46 minutes is just fine for GS. I have found this topic rather intriguing, so I will continue to track my weekly results.

If it's okay with the OP, I wouldn't mind positing my changes in GS every week in this thread to try and track which amount of playing time is optimal (and see if what the community at large thinks is actually correct).

not for me to say but would you not agree your strategy worked for you when in Div2 but so far this season it is not as finely tuned in Div1?

My strategy from about half way into the season last year was win then see where the best training minutes/players happened to be. Sometimes it was PF/C then PF/SF sometimes guards..because of this my trainees are now all interchangeable so i can now let them play 48mins in the weeks training position and 20-25 mins somewhere else.... I have normalled certain games thereby resisted TIE so that I can select players out of position to balance minutes as i agree it is imposssible to get decent GS by only playing 45-55mins.

*By the way I think we have v.similar views on squad rotation and not having too much emphasis on 1/2 players and judging by some of your recent results I think it is safe to say you will be back on winning ways v.soon!

first to react on Darkyjozef.
I believe my statement in my post was that I wanted to tell that it is not important to get as many minutes as possible without exceeding 80 mins to get them in prolific GS. I told 44 mins was probably enough to get decent GS... since 48 is the max mins they can get for training, and GS has to do with training, I asume that 48 minutes would just be as good as 65 when it comes to GS...

Suprfly Guy: Yes I only have 1 out of 4 so far, and I must say this has different reasons. The first match I expected to loose, but I won it. The second I wanted to win, but lost. The third I knew I would loose and the forth I lost, but I still don't know why, except that I played TIE on the road...
I will try to get as far as possible in the cup this season, and try to stay in Div I in the process. This has led to my decision to play all competition games TIE so far, except my second game. I'm also desperatly trying to train some guys asap to sell them.
I hope to get my team of about 20 players tuned by the midseason All-Star game.
I'm not putting up excuses for my bad results here, but I want to point out that the bad results are not entirely unexpected.
As you say, I expect to get back on track, maybe just not for the first few weeks though.

first to react on Darykjozef.
I believe my statement in my post was that I wanted to tell that it is not important to get as many minutes as possible without exceeding 80 mins to get them in prolific GS. I told 44 mins was probably enough to get decent GS... since 48 is the max mins they can get for training, and GS has to do with training, I asume that 48 minutes would just be as good as 65 when it comes to GS...

And I wasn't really disagreeing with you on that, except that I don't believe a player's GS has anything to do with him getting training (however it has an effect on how often the coach will play him, so that can effect playing time, and therefore training).