I'm back for my first season since season 7 or 8 in one of the worlds and my question is this:

Once a player is 99-rated in a category, do you just need to use 7 minutes on the practice plan to hold it steady like normal?

yes usually unless the WE is like 10 or something.

Thanks reinsel!  Wanted to make sure.

Posted by cammby on 6/23/2010 9:29:00 AM (view original):
I'm back for my first season since season 7 or 8 in one of the worlds and my question is this:

Once a player is 99-rated in a category, do you just need to use 7 minutes on the practice plan to hold it steady like normal?

LP / PER only need 3 to hold the rating, the rest are 7

You can probably get away with 5-6 minutes in my experience. You could potentially lose a point but I generally haven't. I normally go 7 mins... unless I truly need those extra minutes elsewhere (like SH) ;)

Posted by cammby on 6/23/2010 9:29:00 AM (view original):
I'm back for my first season since season 7 or 8 in one of the worlds and my question is this:

Once a player is 99-rated in a category, do you just need to use 7 minutes on the practice plan to hold it steady like normal?

generally 0 minutes is needed to maintain a capped category. meaning at least 90% of the time you won't see a decrease, but sometimes you might see a one point decrease on the edge cases (say the guy is at 99.1, he might drop to 98.9 and you would see a 1 point drop. but probably not, it seems less than a .1 drop for most players from what i can tell).

Posted by oldresorter on 6/23/2010 10:07:00 AM (view original):

Posted by cammby on 6/23/2010 9:29:00 AM (view original):
I'm back for my first season since season 7 or 8 in one of the worlds and my question is this:

Once a player is 99-rated in a category, do you just need to use 7 minutes on the practice plan to hold it steady like normal?

LP / PER only need 3 to hold the rating, the rest are 7

Did that not get changed with the new engine?

Is it 7 to hold a free throw rating also or 12?

Posted by jpeterson84 on 6/23/2010 6:05:00 PM (view original):
Is it 7 to hold a free throw rating also or 12?

i believe its more like 7 if still room for improvement. it used to be more like 10 but i think seble tweaked that, im really not sure though. when capped, 0 is enough for ft.

everything is 7 to hold except for lp and per which is 3.  i believe that can be found in the new info on the new search engine.  there was a developer's chat on it.

Posted by timmytfk on 6/23/2010 10:42:00 PM (view original):
everything is 7 to hold except for lp and per which is 3.  i believe that can be found in the new info on the new search engine.  there was a developer's chat on it.

this has been stated many times by developers, but if one would simply try 0 minutes on a capped out category or two, it would become abundantly clear 0 minutes was sufficient.

i agree with billy on this, but the exception i've seen frequently is when a guy comes in with low potential in something. for example, if i recruit a PF with BH of 24 and low potential, it seems to very often drop 1-3 points per season with no practice. If, however, he comes in with 24 average potential, then i get the capped out email at 27, he will almost always hold steady there with 0 minutes.

Posted by wronoj on 6/24/2010 12:10:00 PM (view original):
i agree with billy on this, but the exception i've seen frequently is when a guy comes in with low potential in something. for example, if i recruit a PF with BH of 24 and low potential, it seems to very often drop 1-3 points per season with no practice. If, however, he comes in with 24 average potential, then i get the capped out email at 27, he will almost always hold steady there with 0 minutes.

a low potential guy can have as much as 5 points of improvement before the capped email, so that is probably why you see low pot incoming guys dropping points. i generally start low pot freshman at 0 in all non-cores and then if they start dropping, have a decision to make.

sounds about right to me.

I asked WIS Customer Service.

There is no difference between capped and non-capped players.

If you do not put minutes on guys they will have their attributes in those areas drop ... if they don't it is a bug.

Now, one thing to remember is that guys with higher than normal WE will likely stay constant with less minutes than guys with low WE.  For the categories that are 3 minutes to maintain ... some guys might be able to maintain those at 1 or 2 minutes instead of 3.  Those guys would also take much longer to loose points (the guys with high WE that is).

I am not claiming to be an expert ... just passing on my ticket results.