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Thank you on your answer on my question. I was hoping that this is really a bug and not intended behavior of GE. For me, it has no sense that they made it this way.. It's another random factor (with the cross-training) that makes training more difficult.

If you read game manual (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr... , chapter Minutes) more closely, there is no mention of this "feature". On the contrary, the game guide claims:

"...If you do that, your trainee will play the whole game. The only things that will take him out early are an injury or fouling out (6 fouls)."

Another quotation from the same source:
"I apologize if I sound like a broken record but there’s no aspect of training that is more important than getting your guys the full amount of training possible."

So this 2 minutes are important.

If this isn't a bug, this discussion does not belong in this thread so I will stop now, and go to the topic with proposed changes for this game.

But until they don't change that behavior, someone should rewrite Game Manual so that he does not confuses beginners like me and leaves the impression that they were deceived.

Last edited by bazingaaa at 2/19/2012 5:58:10 AM

The game manuel is linked in the navigation menu, your link is a user-made guide, awesome work based on the forums knowledge but the forum wisdom is wrong here. Mail RiP, he might correct it.

Two lost minutes once in a while have a very small impact, of course, the less lost minutes, the better.

If you are not prepared to lose 2 minutes for your trainee because it's important, start him in two games a week.
If you want maximum training for a maximum number of trainees, be prepared to fail sometimes. The game actively looks to make it difficult to do it. You have to make compromises.

A bit upset, BB. I set my lineup for tonight's game and one of my star trainees (Rodriguez), who I set to play backup as he had played 48 minutes this week already, was somehow put into the strting position. And no, I didn't accidentally do this as I am very methodical about checking lineups prior to mathces. That my star went on to score 50 points at 13 rating doesn't make me feel any better as he may likely get injured as a result of having played 86 minutes!

This is the game in question: (45459038)

I never complain about BB as I love the game and am the first to defend people complaining but I had to register this one as it would be disastrous if my player, Rodriguez, got injured as a result of playing too many minutes not to mention how this will hurt his GS.

Your thoughts, BB, would be appreciated.

No offense mate but that would explain it obviously. I have NEVER used 'Coach picks...' and I ALWAYS use 'strictly follow...'

Trying to understand this... not sure why it happened...

The coach ignored my depth chart for PF / center in garbage time. (and later SF) Yes, I used "strictly follow depth chart". Now I did have 12 players active, but 10 were assigned to the depth chart. 1 unique player for each position. So that shouldn't have been a problem?

Garbage time started at the end of the 3rd quarter. a non-depth chart player was the first replacement at PF!?! And the player that was supposed to play PF was moved to center. Obviously the assigned center was left on the bench...

That same lineup started the 4th quarter, & it even stayed that way after a timeout! Finally the coach put in the real backup C partway through the 4th quarter.... Only to pull him again after a few minutes. Then put him back in... Also the non depth chart player played the last couple minutes at SF for some reason. Replacing a player with the highest stamina on my team. There was even a clock stoppage shortly after. Yet the coach still left him there.


Now this wasn't a huge deal. But curious why it happened. Is this a fluke or to be expected in the future?

My 2k scrub seems to have started in place of my actual player.

I only have 5 players that I set as starter/reserve/backup with strictly follow depth chart. I looked at lineup prior to the game as I had read about this from another australian manager recently.

I also use the letter keys to select my players in combobox, and 'M' is no where near 'R'.

It's only a PL game, but it scares me for league games.