Which one has a bigger effect on increasing work ethic and/or learning offense/defense, getting starts or getting 'X' minutes of playing time? Is there a start-to-PT equivalency? For example, "start=10 minutes", so if a player gets the start and plays 15 minutes, he would get the same ratings and off/def boost as someone who didn't start but played 25 minutes.

Anyone have any idea?

I don't have a ration for you, but Starts definitely trump PT in a landslide. I'd say starting and playing 15 minutes would increase WE more than coming off the bench and playing 30 (if that's even possible in Fatigue Settings)...

I don't think the effect on IQ is the same, but I think the increased WE would eventually make that difference up and then some. 

Posted by wronoj on 7/31/2015 8:40:00 AM (view original):
I don't have a ration for you, but Starts definitely trump PT in a landslide. I'd say starting and playing 15 minutes would increase WE more than coming off the bench and playing 30 (if that's even possible in Fatigue Settings)...

I don't think the effect on IQ is the same, but I think the increased WE would eventually make that difference up and then some. 

Thanks. That's what I assumed and expected, but I was wondering if anyone had definitively figured it out (or read it in an admin chat or something).

I think wronoj has overestimated this substantially.  I would say for guys in the middle range of WE (say, maybe, 35-70) I think a start is worth 3-5 points of WE per season.  30 minutes worth of PT in that same range is worth probably 5-8 on average, maybe even a little more.