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284029.15 in reply to 284029.1
Date: 12/26/2016 6:14:11 AM
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It'd be nice to have a set number of minutes for each player in your rotation. For example you could set your starting SG for 28 minutes, then have your backup SG for 20 minutes. I don't like when my best bench players don't get to play more than 6-8 minutes per game. The NBA 2k series has a setup similar to this.


Minutes distribution in BB is strongly influenced by how the game develops in terms of score. Assuming Strictly Follow, if you are blowing out your opponent by 50 points by halftime, your starters won't play much more than 25-28 minutes, even if they are 150k players and your backups are 3k players. However, if you set your 3k players as starters and you are losing, your 150k backups won't see much court time since the engine will try its best to win, i.e. play the starters (since starters are supposed to better than backups and reserves).

So, yeah, the best way to grant your nice backups a solid 20-25 minutes/game is to have a great starting roster

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284029.18 in reply to 284029.17
Date: 12/26/2016 10:40:25 AM
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To sum up, the problem with BB is not that we are GM, the problem is that we know nothing about the engine.


I'd say the beauty of BB is that after playing this since 2007 you can always find something new to learn.

From: Knecht
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284029.21 in reply to 284029.20
Date: 12/26/2016 1:29:19 PM
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Low stamina on the starters helps to get some minutes for the backups.

There is much room to improve the rotations, game shape and whatnot. Any thoughts on how to change something in this areas are wasted time and energy.

Größter Knecht aller Zeiten aka His Excellency aka President for Life aka Field Marshal Al Hadji aka Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas aka aka Conqueror of the Buzzerbeater Empire in Europe in General and Austria in Particular
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284029.22 in reply to 284029.16
Date: 12/26/2016 7:44:21 PM
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I don't mind the management for the most part. The cringe I feel when I'm down by 4 and my entire roster of backups come in is the one change I still think that needs to happen. That's a coach failing at his job entirely, and since I can't fire him I can't fix it

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284029.23 in reply to 284029.1
Date: 12/26/2016 11:09:53 PM
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This is perfect suggestion! +1

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284029.25 in reply to 284029.24
Date: 12/27/2016 12:21:52 AM
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doesn't really matter much. They go out collectively under let coach decide at whenever the break in the action is. If there isn't a break between 7 minutes and 4 minutes, then everyone comes in at 4 minutes and plays until whenever fouling happens.

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