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i haven't looked at your team, but you have a number of options. this requires you think / plan by the week.

1) On friday, take a look at your weekly schedule. separate the games into close/must win and not going to be close (either defeat or win).

2) your hotshot guard starts / plays the close/must win game. 48 minutes.

3) your less-than-capable starts / plays the other games. if you have the starter coming off the bench, depending on the differential in talent, he could play as much as half the game; more likely, you could pencil him in for 12 - 20 minutes.

4) judging from your level, you probably will not make a long run in the Cup. this frees up the scrimmage for training -- which you use to close the talent gap between your starter and your bench as quickly as possible. a better bench gives you more options going forward.

5) you may or may not be at the point where you are starting to win by large margins against weaker teams in your league (maybe there are a couple of bot teams). a nice little trick here is to put your bench player as both "starter" and "backup" and place your starter in the "reserves" part of your lineup -- your coach will play (probably) play your bench player for around 36 minutes and your starter will get the final quarter. combine that with #2 above, and you have handled the weekly minutes for your starter quite nicely.

6) but the best solution -- either via the TL or training -- is to have a player(s) of equal value that you can rotate starts with your current hotshot.

Needless to say, if you have Lebron as a bench player with "Let coach decide", the coach will still give him huge minutes and might even start him because at the end of the day, the Coach wants to try win the game.

This is not true at all, and part of my point.

Perhaps if you play this game for a bit longer, you will figure that out.

Well said.

That is my belief as well and explains a lot on why the substitution patterns appear as they do.

Sometimes you need to think about game engine logic rather than just assume it is a basketball sim and should work the way you want it to work.

Sometimes the logic is a little weird - like when my center, set to play 48 minutes (starter, backup, bench) fouled out the "coach" put in players with the worst ID and RBD available to play center. Just my 2 cents :)

That depends on what your tactics are and who your coach as available to sub on. It could very well be that your worst ID player be the best option at that stage

well for me, my experience is the same as someone who mentioned it before. basically the 'pick from depth chart
is extremely mechanical. theres a particular set amount of time which each person from starter, sub, reserve play from. but coach decide will be the team which the coach believes will be the strongest, depending on offensive/defensive. since my team isn't that great or specialized on both its just the guys with the highest overall stats in that position.....so yeah.

guess we're still waiting for the substitution tactics eh :D

Needless to say, if you have Lebron as a bench player with "Let coach decide", the coach will still give him huge minutes and might even start him because at the end of the day, the Coach wants to try win the game.

This is not true at all, and part of my point.
Perhaps if you play this game for a bit longer, you will figure that out.

This IS true! I witnessed it many times and I'm in the game from season 10. "Perhaps if you play this game for a bit longer, you will figure that out."

I have the same problem...the starter plays too much...

And i want to ask...Let coach decide...Will the coach pick somebody to sub in? E.G: I want my P.G play whole games, but i win my oppenent by 20---40pts..At last quarter, will back-up SG sub for my PG few mins?

I have the same problem...the starter plays too much...

And i want to ask...Let coach decide...Will the coach pick somebody to sub in? E.G: I want my P.G play whole games, but i win my oppenent by 20---40pts..At last quarter, will back-up SG sub for my PG few mins?

normally not if you have "less enough" players, blowout behaviour is always the same in my eyes.

But it is more likely that he get some bench minutes during the "normal" game, even when it should work in most cases.