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P.S. Whenever I type SFDC, I keep wanting to type STFU by mistake ;-P

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Yeah, I realized after typing that that some people might think that I wanted _them_ to STFU, but that's not the case... yet :-)
I just have all these acronyms mashed together in my head, and my fingers have a way of typing without my brain noticing.

I don't understand the concern for a new team that just starting. I wouldn't expect to be winning all my games right out of the gate, so I don't understand why anyone else would feel that way. I got killed in hattrick for the first few seasons, yet, here I am 3 full years later and still playing.

If a manager doesn't set a lineup they shouldn't expect to win. If a manager doesn't understand what's going on and plays the wrong players or in the wrong positions, they shouldn't expect to win either.

There's already an option for lazy or inexperienced managers, "coach picks from depth chart".

yep. i think if the SFDC has been changed back to what it was before the Cup games last thrusday, that is fine (they cannot be too strict because otherwise starters play the whole game.. basketball needs the substitutions). However I think everyone should use this strategy, and LCD, Coach picks and DC til 4th should be removed.

A user has to be responsable for setting up the team and substitutions should happen in a simple way that works the same way for everyone.

I don't agree with this idea that the user should choose between winning or training, because training is THE ONLY WAY to survive economicaly, and you need to be training ALWAYS to be able to survive, and if you want to continue to have a chance of winning in the future you have to train EFFICIENTLY so you can survive AND try to improve your team.

I believe even using SFDC is already hard enough to control all your players minutes and make sure trainees get proper training and everybody stays in good form and you win your games (keeping your best players longer on the floor). So I don't see need to create more obstacles to that, especially not these ones that only give advantage to users that don't set up their teams or don't care so much about the game (not to mention the bots).

So bottom line, let's forget the other strategies and stick with SFDC and make this one fair and correct, and then the users will have all the responsability of finding their ways to win and/or train their players.

Edited 7/29/2007 7:48:34 PM by GM-Raonne

From the game I played yesterday, the LCD seems to be working well for me. Maybe it was because I had already set my best players so the coach didn't have to change anything. But he did manage time played by each player very well. Though SFDC, like Raonne said, was fine before the last cup game. I'll have to play a few more games with LCD to really see how it is.

actually, I think it might be the opposite my friend. I think since they had made it very strict in these pst 2 games, if your reserves got a nice playing time that means yuou should start thinking if they shouldn't really be starting, cause even against really small odds they got on the floor, so your starters can't be that much better than they are, probably quite the opposite...

Well it wasn't that many more minutes. All but one of my starters played 30 mins (other one had foul trouble). I would say that is a reasonable amount...starters played about 65% of the game. Though a couple of my backups are just as good as the starters, I can assure you that the rest of them are not.