I generally rest my starters when either winning or losing during the regular season when the game is "out of reach" (even though I don't know how that is defined).

I am curious, do you guys take that setting off during the tournaments?

nope, but maybe if I was trying to set some stat record with a player that was a senior or whatever.

I do it when I remember to.

i take it off if we are winning. why not pad the stats a little with the hope of setting some records? (and as silly as it may sound, i leave it on if we are losing because the players don't deserve a reward when they don't perform well.)

I'm the opposite...I have it set to take the starters out if we're winning and the game is out of reach (I've had a second-team All-American go down in the postseason with injury...no need to tempt the Random Number gods' sense of irony in a 35-point blowout). If we're losing and it's out of reach, I tell my starters to get out there and fight because we can't always win in life, but we can always lay it all on the line for a cause. It's a "life lesson" moment for me that I hope they'll take with them after they graduate...

i dont ever take them out because i don't know how deep feedback goes and i don't want to have a kid go 0-7 then sit him when we are losing if he would have gone 5-6 in the second half to "normalize"