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Next to the line where your enthusiasm is listed, is a drop down menu called "effort"

there are three choices for effort: crunch time, normal, and take it easy.

Crunch time will make your players perform better offensively, but it will drastically reduce your enthusiasm. After a crunch time game, your enthusiasm will be half of what it was.

Normal effort will have no bonus or penalty to player performance, but also wont change your enthusiasm. One thing to note is that scrimmage games are always played at normal effort.

Take it easy will have your players play a bit worse offensively, but you will build up enthusiasm.

As you build enthusiasm, your players will perform better defensively and in rebounding, regardless of what effort setting you choose. One rule of thumb is that a team with ~8 enthusiasm and using a TIE will perform about the same as a team with 5 enthusiasm using normal effort

So, building enthusiasm against bad teams, or bots, is an important thing to do over the season. The high enthusiasm lets you play better, and then it lets you use a higher effort in important games later on.

Set TIE last 6-7 league games, even i lose. And get good enthusiasm for play-offs, is a good idea?

Having Enth for PO is a good idea, but you can't jeopardize your position. If you face a team who is tied with you on, say, first place you may not risk losing home court advance.
Now, when you face teams that are way better than you, just play tie and field it like a scrimmage.

I got it, thank you :)

Agreed with what strlife said, but you might consider your league rank. For example, last season I was pretty well locked into 3rd place after 15 league games, would've taken an incredible performance one way or another to move out of it. I concentrated the last 7 games on managing my enthusiasm, though it still didn't help come playoff time. Once you've figured out where you're likely to be in a playoff position, you ought to begin managing enthusiasm, though as strlife said, it shouldn't come at the expense of costing your team home court advantage.