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I've never had this happen before. I played TIE which made the game close. However; even in a close game I have had players sub in. Even in my last regular game my PG and SG did not give way to my back-ups.

My PG played 47 minutes and my shooting guard 48 and there were back-ups just for them. As a result my pg has payed 90+ minutes and my shooting guard 140+ (duh to the fact I just bought him).

So why is the coach not subbing at all. I realize it was close but not to give my SG a breather doesn't make sense.

The reason is that your two guards are much, much better than their backups.

Everytime there's a break in the game when substitutions can happen, your coach looks at the current abilities of the players in each position, relative to the backup. When you use "let coach decide" (which I assume you did here), then the coach will always choose whoever's current ability is higher. Because your starting guards were so much better than their backups, the coach stuck with them, even though their performance was degraded relative to the start of the game.

Now, this changes when you win in a lopsided fashion, and "garbage time" starts. In that case, the backups or reserves will come in regardless. Or, you can encourage the coach to make substitutions by using "strictly follow depth chart" setting.

What happen with your substitutions has nothing to do with you playing TIE.

Yep. His $40000 SG is playing like a $6000-$10000 SG right now.

On the plus side, he does have a couple of weeks to fix gameshape before playoffs.

Please realize the players game shapes that are below respectable I just got off waivers. So I had no control over what they did. So I know if I come in 1st in my conference I can beat the 4th person no matter what (I beat them TIE with my gameshape the way it is). Do I push for the top and use that game to help gameshape or just use the rest of the season to fix and not worry about standings?

Last edited by PaulWooton at 1/12/2012 8:11:29 PM

I'm afraid one game can't fix the gameshape. Even if you were to let your players play minutes that are supposed to bring your gameshape up, it might not happen.I think it's a bit luck based. If your gameshape is 5 now, it can take 3 weeks till it's 'good'.

I just found out that you have enough players to rotate them so at the end of the week all would have around 50-75 minutes.. You just need to play 1 league game with "let the coach decide", when, if everything goes as planned, every player would have around 24-25 minutes played. Then you would play your best squad, only 5 best players, in the next game. Drop other players out from the squad for that game. Then all your top 5 players would have around 72-75 minutes. Then you would play a scrimmage game and let those 5 other players play in the game = all players would be @ around 65-75 minutes if everything goes as planned = most likely gameshapes will be going up.

Too tired to check for typos.. Most likely there'll be plenty, srry about that. About to hit the bed.. Good night.