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I'm new to this. Although I was GM of a team for about 10-12 games of the past season and did lead it to 14 wins, most of them after I took over.

Anyway, what should I do with my team to build a winner? I'm not sure which players I should be building around. Lucas Benoit and Bronisław Nych are my obvious leaders, but should I continue to build around them when they are now 24 or so? How should I treat their training from this point forward?

Which young players on my team should I be working on for future stardom? And how do I go about getting them there?

I only have 10 players but I feel 8 of them are highly quality players. I could b e wrong on that. You tell me. And should I up that to 12, 14 or even 16 players? Do I need a full roster when I only play a few? I rotate 8 or 9 each game, is that enough?

Any help you can give me is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Do I need to post my players here or just let you look at them yourself? What's the standard on that when posting on here?

Last edited by CLegend33 at 10/22/2011 9:30:24 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Is there any benifit to winning scrimmage games? For example, I assume the way to train the young guys is to get them a lot of minutes in scrimmage games. Do they get better training in a win than in a loss?

Thanks for the reply.

Is there any benifit to winning scrimmage games? For example, I assume the way to train the young guys is to get them a lot of minutes in scrimmage games. Do they get better training in a win than in a loss?

If you don't like the color red very much, winning scrimmages makes glancing at your schedule more appealing. But otherwise, no, scrimmages are just to get minutes for your trainees and for backup guys for gameshape purposes, if that matters much at all to you.

I'm correct that as long as a player has 48+ minutes it is all the same? It does not help a player to get 80 minutes as opposed to a player who only gets the 48?

Maybe I've been doing it wrong. Each scrimmage, I look at players who have 48+ minutes and I automatically sit them to get someone else minutes. But most weeks I will have 4 or 5 players with 48+ minutes training. Any advantage or disadvantate to this? What is the correct way, or most effective way, to get my guys where I want them to be?

Also, maybe it is just me, but I did some studying, both of my team and other teams, and it appeared to me that to train a well-performaing PG at SG during a scrimmage, and then putting him back at PG to start the next game, always leads to a drop in production. For example, Player X is a PG who averages 20 points and 6 assists per game, both among the league leaders, and he is used at SG for a scrimmage. The very next regular season game, his stats will be down across the board, pretty drastically in some cases. Anyone else ever noticed this? Or am I just crazy?

A player who gets 80 training minutes gets the same amount of training as one who plays a full 48. I would suggest not letting your players play 80 minutes, it's not good for game shape.

To answer your last question, playing a player in a different position will NOT affect his performance in other games. But overplaying a player during a week could cause to a drop in game shape, which does affect how he plays in the following week.