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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.