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From: Plotts
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Date: 6/18/2008 5:50:30 PM
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I'm sure it's been suggested before, but I think there should be an option where you can set better parameters for how many minutes a player plays a game.

ex.

0-5 = Garbage minutes at the end of the game or half, if you're up by more than 15.
5-15 = Last in the rotation, no minutes at the end of the game
15-30 = Players who split time at a position.
30-40 = Full time starters you want to see out there
40+ = Your best players, who you only want pulled at the end of the half and the end of the third quarter, but that's basically it.

This is just a very rough first edition I did right now off the cusp. SO has this been discussed before? I think it would further expand the strategic level of the game and development of players.

Comments?

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36144.2 in reply to 36144.1
Date: 6/18/2008 6:13:16 PM
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It almost certainly wont be implemented - the BBs don't want training to be made that easy.

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36144.4 in reply to 36144.3
Date: 6/18/2008 7:40:32 PM
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I can understand that, and I don't want training to be easy either. It's certainly not easy to train for events in real life. My hiccup is when I start a player and tell my coach to strictly follow the depth chart, and he ends up playing 17 minutes. It seems there's a myriad of elements at play here, but how often did you see Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett play 18 minutes in a game when healthy and not in foul trouble?

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36144.7 in reply to 36144.6
Date: 6/18/2008 9:29:26 PM
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There has to be a wide road as far as minutes go, that I understand.

But clearly I'm not the only one who sees that some tweaking is needed. I do love this site and I really dig everything you all have done. That is of course why I subscribed. I also realize there's much to be done with a small staff, perhaps if we get some more traffic in here with the same mindset something could happen down the road?


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36144.8 in reply to 36144.2
Date: 6/19/2008 9:33:24 AM
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"the BBs don't want training to be made that easy."

I don't want some people who are only there to eat up a few minutes for the sake of a breather ruining my game because of some unknown element / variable.

It hurts training as well as a shot at winning in in a close game, "Oh look, Juan got 21 minutes last night off the bench, how nice, he went 0-8 including 0-3 from 3pt, and I lost by 1. "

What coach would possibly do that? They have a potential now called 'role player', one of those roles is to come in, soak on a FEW minutes and probably do one thing reasonably well - like rebound, shoot threes, play hard-nosed defense, etc.

I do not want that player hurting the team when his role is something very different than 'general game time'.

Do the BBs want that?

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36144.10 in reply to 36144.8
Date: 6/19/2008 12:30:14 PM
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It hurts training as well as a shot at winning in in a close game, "Oh look, Juan got 21 minutes last night off the bench, how nice, he went 0-8 including 0-3 from 3pt, and I lost by 1. "


Do the BBs want that?

That's what I mean. It's just every basketball team has role players and bench players who will never play more than 15 minutes unless there's an injury or foul trouble.