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After watching the replay, it seems like the 4 players that DNP'ed were in the reserve spots which means they were never coming into the game. Having only 8 players in the starter and back up spots are going to hurt you late in the game. I would have rather seen straight accross subs instead of one sub backing up two spots. Better for managing stamina. I guess we will see going forward, I guess the next games aren't like scrimmages.

After watching the replay, it seems like the 4 players that DNP'ed were in the reserve spots which means they were never coming into the game. Having only 8 players in the starter and back up spots are going to hurt you late in the game. I would have rather seen straight accross subs instead of one sub backing up two spots. Better for managing stamina. I guess we will see going forward, I guess the next games aren't like scrimmages.

I think this depends on the players. If the players are at similar skill level then certainly it would be better to have 1:1 backups. But if there is a sizeable gap to the next best player then maybe not. For our guards I think 3 players covering 2 spots is best for as the moment.

Currently our guards sit in two different groups. We have a set of players at high skill level who stand out above the others: Matsuyama, Miura, and Amori plus you could add Tsunami to that group but he's better in his natural position as our starting SF. Then you have a gap in skills to five other players who are younger trainees who continue to improve and will eventually close the gap: Shidehara, Maeda, Torii, Kumatani, Takabe. These guys are getting better but not quite ready to take playing time from the others. When they are ready I will be excited to get them in there.

I know we all love our guys and think they're the best and should get more playing time. Hell, I would love to put Takabe in there but I know he's not ready yet and would drag the team down.

yeah, I've typically like that one.

I hear what you are saying but it comes down to stamina penalties.

Say you have a PG who starts and has 18 OD and 17 passing, after 10 straight minutes of game time he no longer has those skill levels. So one of those back ups coming in for as little as 2 minutes so our starter can refresh is huge. In that last game there were like 3 times when the other teams back up came in with fresh legs and burnt one of our tired starters.(Yes, I was the only dude from Japan in the chat during game time) This has nothing to do with Maeda, it has to do with starters playing 40 minutes or more. Not even with 9 stamina, a player can't be effective for that amount of time. Running 8 guys is cool on the club level, but you need more for the NT, most NT's run 10 with two reserves, not 8 with 4 reserves. No NT has back ups as good as starters, but isn't that what a back up is, a guy to give the starter rest?

I know we all love our guys and think they're the best and should get more playing time. Hell, I would love to put Takabe in there but I know he's not ready yet and would drag the team down.

TBH, I could care less if Maeda is getting run on the NT, I am building him for my team, and next season he will be getting B3 experience so that will take front seat. I just don't want to see the NT team manager overlooking something as important as STAMINA PENALITES. I have seen Torii skills, and I am sure he could give Matsumoto a breather every quarter with out hurting the team.

OK, fair points, will consider it further.

Certainly subbing is much better with blank line-ups. And while I think it performs somewhat favorably it seems the community strongly opposed the idea.....

The discussions and input are really helpful. It gives me alot of different perspectives to consider. Try something different, evaluate and see if it helps or not, then adjust.

With little depth, blanks can also go horribly, horribly wrong.
I'm not a fan... but then: we all knew that. And to be honest: I think you've done a pretty bang-up job without 'em.

Sorry, I remember now. The issue was that Blank was doing some odd things like picking Asano over Matsumoto. Blank mainly works well when the choices are obvious. IT seemed to be more quirky when you have a lot of quality players. No need to disuss further. I agree blank doesn't work for NT.