Posted by oldwarrior on 9/30/2017 9:36:00 AM (view original):
I have a fairly large spreadsheet with practice minutes and IQ. As Charles Barkley said, "I may be wrong, but I'm not"
Using only players on that list that practiced 20 minutes as a baseline (about 1400 players) and assuming a typical freshman = 3.0 gpa, 50 WE, 15+ minutes playing time: At 20 minutes per practice, fewer than 1600 minutes/80 practices should get you to an A-.
At 34 practices, 50 minutes per practice would be 1700 minutes per season. So at 50 minutes per practice a typical player should reach A- with 2-3 practices remaining in the first season. Every minute spent after that 31st practice until a recruit reaches A-, were minutes lost to diminishing returns.
I've never used 50 minutes, but have gone 40 minutes multiple times. I think 40 minutes equals less than 34 minutes of gain (when 20 minutes is used as a baseline).
could be - I don't have the spreadsheet on my side nor charles barkley. What you followed up with seems even more wrong, and sort of confusing even. But oh well, no big deal. I was simply trying to help the new posters, who might benefit at times from using some high practice minutes to change defense or offense as they start off at a new shool.
i just haven't seen the sort of results you posted
I've already tried ALL 130 MINUTES short term, it seems to be about 6x more effective than 20 minutes, give or take, I really don't care the exact number, using such strategy is more about jump starting a change.
I could see some fall off being true, I was taking issue with the 45% loss of effectiveness number at 40 minutes. I see nothing like that. I often use 32 minutes of practice time by the way, something like 32 on one side and 24 on the other, to catch up a young class bad at one or the other. I probably use high practice minutes more than most coaches here, to me 20/20 is woefully under practicing.