Can someone let me know how important it is and if it is important any ideas how to maximize its value?

player game plan is ridiculously important. if you take a good team, with everything else constant, and play them against themselves, one with a perfect player game plan, one with a poor one (say one you would see from a bottom 25% coach right on the fringe of the bottom 25%), the team with a perfect player game plan is probably going to win somewhere from 65-85% of the time. 

the only way to maximize its value is to really closely watch the performance of your players offensively, and then, make small tweaks to the game plan and observe the results. there is no rule that will give you the maximum value, and the way you should set the distro varies a lot by the composition and style of play of your team. player game plan is by far the hardest part of setting your team up, so expect to focus on it for a few months before you really feel comfortable.

Each person has different thoughts on it. There was a vote taken on how much time spent game planning etc, and it was all over the place. Some do it daily for long periods, other do it 1-2 times per season and don't look back. It just depends on each person. I'd say my top 5 things of importance are this.

1 - recruiting.
2 - recruiting.
3 - recruiting.
4 - recruiting.
5 - tie.. .Recruiting/Practice plan.


I use to think it was important probably 2-3 years ago, but not anymore. I don't even look at who I play and still manage to win just fine - even more then when I game planned. As long as you got talent you will be fine. If you are not good at recruiting then you'll need to master game planning. It can result in a couple extra points and if you are a middle of the pack team it could be the difference in the PIT and the NT. I just don't think its some make or break season changing thing, but thats just me. Others feel its more important by a lot, and some by a little. Others also agree and hardly do any changes.

I think the difference between a good and bad player game plan is worth a lot more than a couple points.

i was talking about player game plan in general... not the value of changing it game to game. that is a different story. bignr, which were you asking about?

Y and V aren't even near each other on the keyboard!

i feel like you would need a huge sample size of box scores to tell if a minor player gameplan tweak is worth anything

Jet, the guy has 16 National Titles in 86 total seasons.  He's figured something out that the rest of us haven't!!

obviously lol. there IS a reason we haven't figured it out yet...i think its cuz we keep taking his advice ;-)