I don't know if you correctly read what I said, but I said I don't think stamina is the issue. Stamina just affects performance. What I spoke of was Blowouts. I'm assuming you don't have many blowouts and on top of that, any blowouts you did have, wasn't usually doing the line up setting as described in his post. I've done what he has done, and when the game was a blowout, they'd sub my main in the last few mins of the game, no matter if I set him to starter, backup and reserve. It's just the way the engine is, that's why when trying to control minutes, you want to find a scrimmage opponent depending on the difficulty accordingly