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He will play the best player available at a position regardless of how you set your depth chart(mostly). So he isn't going to do something crazy and play your center at the PG position.

You didn't see my first match of the season... (2421898)
The coach has put my PG & SG at PF although he had 4 better players to put at PF...

Yesterday I played "depth chart till 4th" for the first time.

I had my best C and PF set as reserves and the same rotation for C and PF, like this:
PF: A, C, D
Center: B, C, E

I needed D and E to play 10 minutes for training purposes and was expecting (hoping) my coach would play C and E in the last quarter, but he didn't.
A and B played most the the 4th quarter with C rotating with them. D and E did not play a single minute.

E is surely my best center, 2 level higher in all primary skills than B... why did he not play? Does anyone else have more experience with this substitution setting?

Last edited by Newton07 at 3/5/2008 12:06:35 PM

your D and E mostly will only play if A,B or C are either injured, or have foul trouble. OR when you are ahead by many points, and then I mean MANY points.

Thanks... I know that's the case with "strictly follow depth chart" and "coach picks from depth chart"... but so what's different with "depth chart until 4th" if the coach still never takes own decisions?

it is also the case with let coach decide.
The main diffrence between the 10 players, and those 2 is that those 2 are back-ups.
The coach plays the 10 players, and only in the situations I told before, will he use the back-ups.

the diffrence between the tactical options:
let coach decide: coach will use the 10 players, no matter where you put them in the positions he finds best (I even had my starters mixed up once or twice).
coach picks from dept chart: coach chooses, but tries to keep to the dept chart, he might not follow the chart if there is enough reason for it. Most of the time you will not see diffrence between this and follow dept chart, unless you do unlogic things.
strictly dept chart: coach will only put players where you decide, so he will never put your player that you put in the SG position at SF position, even it is very very lear he would be better for SF at some point. this is ideal for training centers in handling for instance. ;)
dept chart until 4rth: like it says, the coach will follow the positions you order, until the 4rth Q, when he may do as he pleases and the tactics swith to let coach decide.

hope this helps.

Hartelijk bedankt :)
Now it is clear to me... i though the coach could freely choose among all selected players, not only starters and rotations.

he probably can, but is probably somehow restricted in the use of the back-ups.