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Yes, B normally would get time when he were a backup.
And no, he is getting time now.



Sorry for my english and I hope I have understood what you asked and answer what you asked.

Ok this is the case I've been looking at and testing.

Let's start with game (10313097)
Everyone got correct minutes higher played time listed as option 1 and scrap minutes as option 2. Slow paced offence used to neglate stamina issues. Only spot that was different was C spot where E.Ida started but was listed as option 2. Now you could think that there is a big quality difference between those 2 but PF spot had basically the same difference.

Next (10320731)
This game I thought i was smarter. PG,SG and C spot reserves were listed as option 3. Other spots as option 2. Slow paced offence used. Great was E.Ida was not started and played only 9 minutes notice the same guy at C spot as earlier game.

Finally (10337266)
Needed more minutes for one of my PF's and E.Ida. Only PG reserve was used as 3'rd option. All other spots were used as option 1 and option 2. R.Ameters and E.Ida were used as subs (option2). Normal paced offence was used. Surprise surprise E.Ida started the game and to my bigger surprise R.Ameters was not switched to starter although he was subbed in as fast as possible and as you can see played more time that the 1-st option. I you look at the jump ball of this game you can see that the other team also switches out one man at jump ball thats just wrong.

Conclusion: I think the coach is trying to win the game from the start as I always used Depth chart until 4-th and as you can prolly figure out that my defalt is not slow paced offence + I used normal to even show that he get's the part what tactic to play but just can't get over my lineup and tryes to correct it.

Huh too long I hope it helps gotta sleep now...

hi
in my match(10345820) the players of played have all benn messed up!!
the starters the backups and the reserves didn't follow my orders... and also the selcted\remainng players lists have been messed up:

what i choosed: (recalling it from the next match formation page):
Starters (PG->C )Krencius Staglicic Genovese Karalis Savorgnani
Backups: Krencius Staglicic Genovese Isturizaga Isturizaga
Reserves: Genovese Consoli Genovese Staglicic Staglicic
Subs: strictly follow
Fouls: let them play

Remaining Roster: Tondello Arfè Caralt Ortuzar Gordon

this is what was supposed to be. and here it is what happened instead:


Starters (PM->C )Krencius - Genovese - Staglicic - Isturizaga - Karalis
from the End game stats we got the subs:
backups: Krencius Savorgnani Consoli Tondello Ortuzar

Remaining Roster: Arfè Caralt Gordon
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I setted the formation on 1\22 afternoon cet... and before I setted it on sat morning... could it be that in someway it messed up the two different orders I gave? (i barely remember the orders given on saturday, btw)
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after reading all above I suppose there isn't anything that can be done about it, is it?
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so I guess i'm changing my training orders to train something clever in this situation

I hope you can fix it, or at least i hope not to face it again... it could be very annoying......

so thanks this is helpful...

I do wonder whether or not if you had put TL as the starter and JD as the backup SG whether JD would have gotten more or less than 10 minutes?
My hunch is that he would have gotten less... meaning the coach did play him more often than he would have if he was put at starter in the depth chart... and if this is so, then i know where to look for a bug.... well it wouldnt be a bug exactly, it would just be that we need to rework our substitution algorithm because even if i fixed it so that TL STARTED on the court, our substitution algorithm might end up using him for a very similar number of minutes. This is really I think part of the general complaint that users have in which they don't fine control over their minutes, or that the options that they have don't give them the distribution of minutes they want over all ranges of skill differences.

ok so i am going to say that the coach did seem to hear something between when TL starter as starter and when he started as backup... which means I know at least where the bug is now... and everything is working actually just as we designed, just the algorithm we chose has some unexpected consequences. The problem is the hack solution where we just make sure JD STARTS the game isn't really what you want if TL is gonna get most of the playing time.

im saying the problem would still exist if you did strict depth chart.. because even in strict depth chart the coach considers the fitness/skill of the players some.. and the gap in skill between JD and TL is so large that the coach can't bear to put JD in over TL. We need to figure some other way to have the coach follow your orders.. we cant have him ignore skills because sometimes things happen that the DC can't account for... and he needs to make a tradeoff between players who are in the depth chart at multiple spots.. anyway...

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In my match tonight, I am certain I set a starting line up which included "Ermin Bogataj" at SF, and Eric Dickinson at SG. Instead, Dickinson is playing at SF, and Rudolph Al-Shurman is starting at SG.

From my notepad, the following was my intended lineup:

PG: Howell, De Bares, Dickinson
SG: Dickinson, Al-Shurman, Bogataj
SF: Bogataj, Cocq, Machimbarrena
PF: Casstles, Barraquer, Machimbarrena
C: Cowan, Niz, Carvajal

Obviously I can't know for certain if I did in fact enter this as my team. However, I checked it twice last night and this morning, and thought it was right.

In the game, the starters are showing as Howell, Al-Shurman, Dickinson, Casstles, Cowan. In the first quarter, Al-Shurman gets injured, which is very annoying since he shouldn't even be in the game at this point. Now, instead of my star SG resting ready for the play-offs, he's getting injured!

Is there any way of identifying why the starting line-up isn't the one I expected? Did I do something wrong, or has the game not followed my orders for some reason?

I understand that the coach will make some changes to the substitution pattern in the DC, but changing the starting five seems just wrong. Besides, Bogataj often does play at SF, so it's not like the arrangement I was proposing was irrational and needed to be over-ruled.