Lets say you have a PG at 8 on the big board with all reds except a yellow with 6 points to grow in defense (94) and a black with 11 points to grow in stamina (81). I use 27/27 so you get 76 minutes to split.

note how important stamina is for this player given I would like him to carry me to a title. 1 point of stamina is probably worth 2.5 points of DE or something.

FWIW I’m guessing 54 in conditioning and 22 in defense is probably the most efficient?

Is there evidence the reds will not decline with 0 minutes. I thought 8 min was required to maintain most attributes, with the exception of per/llp. Otherwise I would go even heavier investing in stamina.

Posted by ningles on 6/20/2020 5:24:00 PM (view original):
Is there evidence the reds will not decline with 0 minutes. I thought 8 min was required to maintain most attributes, with the exception of per/llp. Otherwise I would go even heavier investing in stamina.

I think they decline quite little, possibly even less than a point throughout the season.

In my experience, at red, they never decline as long as they are getting pt. The only times I’ve seen reds decline are for players who are getting less than 15mpg, and even then only low work ethic players, and in attributes that have *just* turned red. And I’ve only ever seen a single point. So if there’s somewhere else for it to go, and I’m not worried about him leaving early, I always empty the reds of players who are going to be starting.

When I have "core" ratings that are red from the get go, that I don't want to decline at all, I set them to 4 practice minutes as a freshman. The next season I'll drop it to 2. Jr and Sr season can be 0 and I rarely ever lose a point at all. If ever

So this last season I put zero practice minutes into all categories:



Pretty shocked by how little decline there was. The only thing that went down was BH by 1.

I would never put any practice minutes into a red category.