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The current system just isn't very realistic. I'm supposedly the manager of my team, yet I have little control over how much my players play. Coaches should be able to play their players however many minutes they want.

You aren't the coach. Coach decides minutes.

You are a GM.

Billy Beane gave Art Howe lineups all the time but Howe played them how he wanted. It wasn't until Beane traded away Carlos Pena that Hatterberg started playing 1st base and they started winning games.

I don't think your idea is bad or wrong. But, coaches don't set ticket prices, acquire free agents/trade players. Scout and draft people etc.
Sure we get coaching options such as a general tactic and defense. But even in that we don't actually control who scores or who defends etc

General Managers are in charge of the coaches. They can be in charge of playing time. When players want to play extra minutes, they sit down with the GM because he's the one who ultimately makes the decisions (other than the owner of course). I guess we shouldn't get to set the starting lineups for our teams either, since that's generally under the coach's prerogative.

That's not true that general managers are in charge of coaches. It varies by organization but in the majority of instances. nope they are seen as equal positions. That's why you often hear complaints of a coach saying that's not my gm, or a gm saying that's not my coach. there is often disconnect between the 2 too. GM has one vision,coach sees it as a different way on how to win. and thus the clashng begins

Last edited by RandyMoss at 12/23/2016 3:58:39 PM

You're just nitpicking now. On the front page of buzzerbeater, does it not say "MANAGE your own team?" Buzzerbeater is referred to as a basketball MANAGER game. So I should get to decide how much my players play. I'm getting tired of my backup SG (who is pretty close to my starter overall) getting less than 10 minutes per game. If I could change it, he'd be playing about 20 minutes per game.

I don't like this suggestion. The game is so pretty real as it can be. Those "issues" make it more challenging every day. Of course I hate the out of time changes and some other random variations. But in the main sense.... that's where the magic is.

You're just nitpicking now. On the front page of buzzerbeater, does it not say "MANAGE your own team?" Buzzerbeater is referred to as a basketball MANAGER game. So I should get to decide how much my players play. I'm getting tired of my backup SG (who is pretty close to my starter overall) getting less than 10 minutes per game. If I could change it, he'd be playing about 20 minutes per game.

Manage

Yes manage

Not COACH.

Further: if you have Damian Lillard for example, why would you have a backup for him about as good. ? You are now creating a player controversy at that position. Would you expect the ,Cavs to get Durant to back up James and only play them each for 20-30 minutes a game? Or would you change one of their positions and play both? What point is there to having two guys that do the same thing on the court at same time too? Don't you want guys that do different things to change up the rhythm?


You are using real world logic which does not apply to the situation at hand. And from a real world standpoint it would probably not succeed there either. Football it would make sense to have backups almost as good.
Baseball/basketball it makes less sense. It makes more sense to either teach different positions or play different positions to get the lineup as well, or to trade/move them to clear salary space.

But that's what a manager does not a coach. So maybe you just do better at coaching than managing and that is a communication breakdown within your front office?

Rather than being able to set exact minutes, which I think isn't right, subsitution patterns should be different. Certainly I agree that backups that are close to the standard of the starter should play more minutes. Perhaps if there was a way to set a backup to receive twice as many minutes as is now normal that wouldn't require as much of a change to the way lineups are handled.

I suspect though that the BBs are reluctant to change anything regarding substitutions because they've no idea how it works even now.

That is probably the dumbest example you could have used. Who wouldn't want a good bench? Who wouldn't want a deep, balanced team? You're implying that your starters should be great and your bench should be trash. My backup SG just happens to be my best bench player so I'd prefer him get more than 8-10 minutes per game. Overall my two SGs are pretty close in skill, however I start the one with better defense and have the better scorer off the bench. Of course with your philosophy I should just sell the backup and put a 2k scrub in there.