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From: kpd
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Date: 10/7/2011 12:26:46 AM
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i was just wondering how each of the four work and what will be best to get your starters to play around 32-40 mins?

From: brian

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197917.2 in reply to 197917.1
Date: 10/7/2011 7:26:14 AM
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Managing mins is one of the most challenging aspects to BB.

Best for managing mins is actually setting the coach tactic to "let coach decide", selecting the players for the match, and leaving the tactics chart blank. For whatever reason, there's a very high amount of player rotation that keeps starters mins low.

On the other hand, this is also the worst choice for training, as you've no control to which positions your players will play.

Strictly follow depth chart is the most advised (and possible used) choice for ensuring players are in the correct positions for the game and training. If you want to keep mins lower, youll want to ensure each starter player has a separate backup. Playing a slower paced tactic (patient, princeton, 2-3 or 3-2 zone) will cause players to get tired slower and play more mins also.

The other two options I almost never use.

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From: kpd

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197917.3 in reply to 197917.2
Date: 10/7/2011 2:05:19 PM
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Thank you :) so if u play a fast paced offense it will mean that your starters will less mins since they will get tired fast rite?

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197917.4 in reply to 197917.3
Date: 10/7/2011 2:46:14 PM
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That's how it should work, yep. Your players stamina will also have a big effect too.

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197917.5 in reply to 197917.4
Date: 10/7/2011 3:47:03 PM
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thanks :) ill try using strictly depth chart a bit now

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197917.6 in reply to 197917.5
Date: 10/8/2011 6:53:53 AM
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I usually play a fast paced offense and my starters rarely play less than 35-40 minutes. Sometimes they don't even get subbed! Maybe I have too much stamina. There are some basic rules you can follow:
- the higher the stamina, the more minutes your starters will play (anything above respectable will not get subbed too often)
- if you lead by more than 20 points at the end of 3rd quarter, all your back ups will play out the rest of the game (getting at least 12 minutes in the process)
- the weaker the back up, the more minutes the starter is likely to get, and vice versa (unless maybe you strictly follow depth chart)
- it may be wise to give some of your back ups a starting place in one of the games each week (this will make minutes managing a lot easier)

From: kpd

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197917.7 in reply to 197917.6
Date: 10/8/2011 8:12:17 PM
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Yeah most of my players have good stamina and thats what i have been trying... i usually play my subs in games that are gonna be easy or ill get blown out.... but i have 2 important games coming up and ill have to play my starters so didnt wanna mess up my game shape... thanks :)