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I have my best player who plays around 65 min per week for 3 weeks in a raw and his game shape keeps going down even tho i pay a dedicated staff member 15k a week to prevent unlucky shape Glow Down (a psychologist)...

Do you think I shall rather make him play 75 min ?


His Bad GS all season is really ruining my whole season as he is not playing with the NT and I loose a lot of income from this as well as bad performances on the court.

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66 min last week and GS decreased again !

I'm mad. It took me 10s to train him and he cant be in good shape when hé is at is career Peak.

Would he actually be a NT player for you guys? He would currently have the lowest salary of any player on the French NT and he’s a big. As for the minutes it looks like there were some weeks earlier in the season where he played too many minutes. 60ish minutes has always seemed like the ideal minute target. Upper 60s-lower 70s can be good for some players but if there’s a trend of him not getting up to 9 with those weeks, lowering to 60-64 minutes could be worth a shot.

OK I will aim 60...
His salary is low because he got a specific build and he is not capped yet :-$

Few years ago I did a small study on the up/down in GS after the first week of the season and it appears that there is a peak at 60-65 min with very few chances of getting down in GS :@

I hope to have luck next week.

I have the same problem with my best player. And that already for 2 seasons long.

Even with Psychologist. Doctor with massage.

It doesn't matter what I do. He will not get in shape 9.

try looking at their stamina level.
the less stamina they have the less they should play weekly

try looking at their stamina level.
the less stamina they have the less they should play weekly

Let me see if I understand you right...

So if the range is optimal minutes is 48-65 a week and...
Player A is stamina 3 (Awful)
Player B is stamina 8 (Strong)

I should give player A closer to 48 mins while player B should get closer to 65?

I read a post from BB-Justin, he said that stamina matters...but I don't really know something more.

I think that more stamina allow more minute per week. Less stamina, less minute.
How much? I don't know.

try looking at their stamina level.
the less stamina they have the less they should play weekly

Let me see if I understand you right...

So if the range is optimal minutes is 48-65 a week and...
Player A is stamina 3 (Awful)
Player B is stamina 8 (Strong)

I should give player A closer to 48 mins while player B should get closer to 65?

From my observation, that's right.

Also, from my observation, players with stamina 8+ are capable to play 70-75 minutes without a great impact on gameshape-drop.

Also, from my observaton, Massage seem to reduce minutes in General. So 75 minutes with Massage are better for the gameshape than 60 minutes+massage

But i am open for other opinions, especially with examples or official statements.

regards, Ted

In my humble opinion there are no "better" or "worse" minutes within the desired boundaries (48-72 min). Stamina does not matter when players are in that range. I.e. it is irrelevant whether your player has 9 ST and you gave him 48 min or he has 1 ST and you gave him 72 min. As long he is in the range he should generally improve (maintain) his current GS with a lot of randomness and backtracking included in the equation ofc.

Here are three players of mine, with different ST levels, who (with very rare exceptions) only get 48 min each week: (49611812), (49567405), (49554209). Still their GS is consistently (close to) perfect.

After the changes stamina comes into play when players are over 72 min. The higher their ST, the more minutes over 72 they can get without suffering GS penalties. We are talking about 7-8 min max probably, even at 9 ST.

Massage indeed allows their GS to withstand several extra minutes weekly as well. Psychologist helps with problematic GS/minutes too.