Hypothetically, if I've got a freshman with high potential pretty much across the board, would I be better off evenly distributing practice minutes, or am I better served sacrificing minutes in less important skills and piling minutes on the key skills early.

Also, if a player has 20 minutes of practice time in an area, will he improve twice as fast as if he had 10 minutes in that area or just at a higher rate?

 

I like to stack minutes in the low-low categories very early to get that maxxed out message and close that category out - then I don't have to bother with maintenance minutes and I can repurpose those minutes to high potential areas. I'll usually try to do that a couple times if the player has enough lows.

Posted by dacj501 on 8/5/2011 1:42:00 PM (view original):
I like to stack minutes in the low-low categories very early to get that maxxed out message and close that category out - then I don't have to bother with maintenance minutes and I can repurpose those minutes to high potential areas. I'll usually try to do that a couple times if the player has enough lows.

I have never done this myself.  Are you saying that if you have a freshman with low-low, you load up the minutes and get the maxed-out email, pull the minutes and he will never lose a point in that category for the rest of his career (even in the off-season)?

I usually just start low-lows out with 0 and only bother putting minutes in once they've maxed out their other categories.  Unless they're in cores, anyway...

Posted by jpmills3 on 8/5/2011 4:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dacj501 on 8/5/2011 1:42:00 PM (view original):
I like to stack minutes in the low-low categories very early to get that maxxed out message and close that category out - then I don't have to bother with maintenance minutes and I can repurpose those minutes to high potential areas. I'll usually try to do that a couple times if the player has enough lows.

I have never done this myself.  Are you saying that if you have a freshman with low-low, you load up the minutes and get the maxed-out email, pull the minutes and he will never lose a point in that category for the rest of his career (even in the off-season)?

if the category has usable value (ie it isn't like 10 or below or something - depending on category) and assuming I have minutes to protect my cores, yes, I will load up on whichever low low is most useful, squeeze the 1 point of life out of it or whatever, and then empty it and keep an eye on it. It may eventually lose a point - if its important and if I'm running out of things to improve by then, I'll maybe add back some minutes again to see if that 1 pt loss comes back...but generally they don't lose, and I don't have to bother with minutes to hold them without drops...