I have a D3 JR Center with 100 reb. Do I still need to put in 7min in practice to maintain him at 100 or can I just set it to 0 now since he's maxed out?

If you got the email from the AC saying he is maxed then drop it to zero.

Doesn't that just mean that he is really at something like 99.51 and the display is just rounding up to 100?

Ok, I guess I'll shift all his minutes to footwork , lp, and conditioning. I'm really excited about this player as he might reach 100reb, blk, and lp. Here he is:

http://whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=0&pid=1622797

if you set his min to zero his rating will still go down, you need to still put 7 min

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There's a theory that a lot of the experienced coaches espouse that suggests that a players theoretical "maximum rating" for purposes of calculating improvement rates can be over 100.  If that's the case for this guy then even though his rating can't actually go up any further the theoretical improvement rate isn't approaching zero yet, so he could drop faster than a guy who is maxed out in a rating below 100.  If you did get the e-mails from the assistant you should be fine.  Otherwise you can put him at 0 but you're going to want to keep an eye on it.

Posted by meany27 on 9/29/2010 1:07:00 PM (view original):
if you set his min to zero his rating will still go down, you need to still put 7 min

Not true. This is an approach that I resisted for a long time but once I tried it I found out it does work. Once you get the maxed out email from your AC, you can safely put the minutes to 0. Find some old posts from gillespie/coach billy g. He explains the theory behind it and how it works.

Posted by thethrill10 on 9/29/2010 2:58:00 AM (view original):
100 isn't maxed out unless like Weena said you got the Assistant Coach e-mail saying he is maxed out.  He could get to 101 or higher unless he hit his potential.

I'm 100% positive this is false.

Posted by Weena on 9/29/2010 1:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by meany27 on 9/29/2010 1:07:00 PM (view original):
if you set his min to zero his rating will still go down, you need to still put 7 min

Not true. This is an approach that I resisted for a long time but once I tried it I found out it does work. Once you get the maxed out email from your AC, you can safely put the minutes to 0. Find some old posts from gillespie/coach billy g. He explains the theory behind it and how it works.

Can anyone else comment, please?

Weena is correct. Once a player nears his max (gets the assist coach email), setting to 0 will cause him to drop VERY slowly away from that max. This rate of drop is MUCH less than the rate of improvement in another category with significant remaining potential.

thanks guys I will give it a try

Posted by meany27 on 9/29/2010 2:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Weena on 9/29/2010 1:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by meany27 on 9/29/2010 1:07:00 PM (view original):
if you set his min to zero his rating will still go down, you need to still put 7 min

Not true. This is an approach that I resisted for a long time but once I tried it I found out it does work. Once you get the maxed out email from your AC, you can safely put the minutes to 0. Find some old posts from gillespie/coach billy g. He explains the theory behind it and how it works.

Can anyone else comment, please?

well, now that weena so kindly mentioned me already, i guess there is not much point in me commenting. but i will anyway (because i have been tooting this horn too long, i am deeply committed, so i just can't stop now :)  and yes, i know i am a glutton for punishment, or i would have given up on helping people realize this very long ago)

anyway, potential rate of increase and rate of decrease are very strongly tied together. when one goes to zero, so does the other. so when you max something, there is very very little to lose by not putting 0 minutes in. technically, you might lose like a tenth of a point over a season or something, but for all practical purposes, you don't lose anything by going with 0 minutes.

and for any who remain skeptical, just try it once. that is all it takes. for the longest time i couldn't believe how many people insisted you would lose points, because i knew they must not have tried it. what do you have to lose? if you pay a moderate amount of attention, and try it one or two places, you can lose a couple points on a player - which is essentially meaningless. but what do you have to gain? 7 minutes times how many categories times how many players in perpetuity... so i suggest any who don't use the 0 minutes approach just give it 1 chance (make sure you have gotten the capped email). also, i use 0 minutes for non-capped low potential categories all the time (lower end of low potential, probably 2 points improvement or less) and experience very very small losses. so once you see the proof of concept (by trying on a capped message), try to optimize further by experimenting with 0 minutes with low potential categories.