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Garbage time is when normal substitution rules don't apply, hence, your situation. While you may wonder why a player played out of position, it is clear that the reasons for that are not in the normal substitution rules, but in the basic implementation of garbage time. I agree that it is not perfect and that in this situation the substitution pattern could be better but it is a well known fact that in garbage time, anything goes. We haven't touched it and there have been no changes to this particular piece of code since way back when so it should come as no real surprise for a 25 season veteran that this happens.

Another thing is that you are trying to separate this issue from the 48min per match situation, but that's impossible. These two issues are in this case very much connected since you were trying to get 4 players the 48 minutes. Therefore, if you hadn't done that, the other issue wouldn't become an issue at all.

I agree, BB do strange things since one or two seasons...the 1st quarter becomes just ridiculous, today 9 Minutes one basket scored 8 fouls...every game the same shit in the 1st quarter some players seems not knowing how to play...in my last cup game it was a server error in the 2Qt i took a 34 - 12 against a team from same level during this time...strange

In my PO game last season, i had a sub for my SG and SF, the engine just decided to understand that differently, my SF played 49 mins (loss in OT),which what was not needed as he has a 2 in stamina...in a close PO game this is embarassing


Last edited by Tom2vals at 9/19/2015 1:57:11 PM

The games are calculated prior to being played, not at the time of the live transmission, so a server error cannot have any effect on a match performance.

Also, in close matches starters have a big advantage over their backups, as they always have, a strategy which is based on the assumption that you'd like for your best lineup to be out there when it's most important.

What was the exact way you set your lineup? If it was set in a way that would allow overriding by the game engine in the third quarter, which I assume was the case, the main reason why Guillemin substituted Case and not Keled when Case's stamina is allegedly three levels higher is likely this one: Case had lower effective stamina by that time. It looks like he had played the entire time up to that point (35 min., 10 sec. into the game), while Keled had played only around 24 min.

I'm also not very appreciative of the way garbage time is handled, but I really don't think anything major regarding it has changed in recent times. If your team hasn't experienced situations like these recent ones in the past , it's most likely because the required circumstances for them to happen weren't present.