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am i the only one that thinks playing a player over a certain number of minutes reduces gameshape is kinda dumb...

i get it adds to strategy...but in real life...if Kobe or Lebron or Nash or all the other superstars could play 48 mins a game without tiring...their coach would play em 48 mins a game...and i doubt their game would suffer because of it...

coaches play their best players as much as they can cause they know it's gonna up their chances of winning...

on a similar note...if playing a guy in access of 80 miins a week is damaging...how do i make my coach reduce my players minutes?...i set up my starters and my backups and my coach plays some of my starters 40+ minutes a game...how do i tell him to reduce that? and i'm not going to take my starters out next game...when i have 2 league games a week...i'm gonna put up my best team for every league game and that means my best players playing sometimes 90 mins a week...

also on a related note...a suggestion for programmers perhaps...set up a 1st string / 2nd string percent option on what you want them to play...maybe in the order set up screen...have a little drop down box besides the starters that say you want to play them from 100-0 percent of the time (although if they are your starters...you probably don't want to play them 0 percent)...this way...if you have a horrible backup center...you can tell the coach that you want your starter playing the whole game...but this is not recommended if his stamina is low...but if he has really good stamina...it's not gonna hurt his game (just his game shape)...and also...if you have 2 pg's that are very similar in rating...you can set it at 50 percent play time...they'll get equal play...you don't have to worry about one being over played and one being under played...etc etc...and if you can't decide who you want as the starter and the backup...you play them equal for a few games until one emerges as the starter...

but also...like i said...i set my lineup...my coach decides when to sub my players...and even if i don't want my star PF playing the whole game and getting too many hours...my coach plays him the whole game reguardless...so...his game shape suffers...so unless there's a way that i can tell me coach not to play him the whole game and i don't know about it (other than getting better backups)...i think a "percentage of play" setting would be a welcome addition for giving someone more control over their players status and training strategy

The NBA's leader in minutes averaged 39.9 minutes per game, so looks like the current system is calibrated pretty well.

You're suggestion makes it really "HARD" to manage training minutes. No thanks!

Cut your roster down to 7 or 8 players, sack you current trainer and order your new lvl 1 trainer to train "teamtraining: Game Shape" only, and forget about the cup and scrimmages. Select your starting 5, fill up the back up slots with the 2 or 3 players remaining, save your line-up to be the standard line-up and you won't even have to log in anymore! Well, you will have to do that now and then, to prevent your team from becoming inactive...

Actually, with the money saved by sacking the trainer and cutting down the roster, this might work... Has anyone ever tried it?

we should just be able to sub the players in and out

The alarming part from my experience is the Massage Doctor seems completely oblivious to the system in place before he arrived.

I have yet to notice ANY difference by having him on board... I think the rules state his effect is only marginal but are we talking 2-3 mins per week incase of maybe OT in a game you didnt plan for?

Maybe my expectations were a bit high but I was at least hoping to push the bar up to 90mins a week but I will strongly advise against this.

how does my suggestion make it hard to manage training minutes?

say your starter played 40 minutes in the first game...sit him out the scrimmage...and then set his play time to 70% of the game next game...he plays 33.6 minutes...boom he played 73.6 minutes that week...this way...you can manage the minutes pretty much to an exact science...instead of letting the coach play him 40 minutes one game...and hoping he only plays him 30 some the next game...

This will never happen - minutes are meant to be difficult to manage.

sarcasm!
You're suggestion makes the minute managing a joke. As Juice just wrote, minute managing should be challenging, not just set playing time for "insert player here".

This will never happen - minutes are meant to be difficult to manage.

difficult yes...impossible and completely out of my control?...i don't think so...

my starting PF is much better than my backup...so i understand that my coach would rely heavily on the starter...but my backup has better potential than my starter...and so i want my backup to get hours so he can eventually become better in the future...plus...don't want my starter getting too many hours...but i have no way to really tell my coach this...not that i know of at least...and so the hours my players are getting is out of my control...which when a game takes stuff out of your control (things that should be managable by you...it is a manager game after all) that makes the game less fun...

as for the 39 mins/game...yes...that may be accurate...and therefore if they played 2 games a week in the nba...then 78 minutes a week would be good...i don't deny this...i don't argue with this...what i'm saying is...the reason one only gets 39 minutes a game is because they'll get tired if they play more...they get pulled from a game so that they aren't dragging their feet on the court...but if a guy had the stamina to play 48 minutes a game every game...he would...and he wouldn't play worse in the following game because of it...he'd get a day off...have a rest...be fresh and ready to go next game...plain and simple...