Does teams still practice and improve during the conference tournament? I think they stop practicing afterwards into the post season.

Yes. Your players will continue to practice and improve in the conference tournament but will stop during the NT and PI.

Team and individual practice improves through the CT semis, but not the CT finals or the NT/PI.

Actually, as a team advances through the Tourney, I would expect that to provide them benefit I would like to see the teams that advance get to have their attributes increase.

I know the guys who don't make it would loose some points, but it seems more realistic to me that teams that play more should continue to get better.

In GD, teams practice through their playoffs/bowl games.

I can live with it either way ... so it is no big deal.

WAIT .. did I just disagree with WIS ... wow, WTF just happened.

Yeah, I think it would be a pretty rough penalty for missing the NT or going out early. Too much of a rich get richer mechanic.

That's what happens in real life though, if there is any attempt at realism. And it's an easy fix. Practice counts if you play. It's a large reason that teams do so well perenially, they have players with not only more postseason experience but more practice as well.

Especially when so many teams get killed by early entries with the farther they go in the tournament. It might balance out that team killer factor.

I don't see the argument that "rich get richer" here is a problem, and I am not a deregulation type of person. I also have not held that coaches with recruiting money over should not be able to benefit from wise recruiting/filling all schollies/ and having money over, and then turn around and start recruiting next season's players as soon as the season starts. You have the money, the recruit can't commit yet, can't even consider you and get considering credit, but you can at least (like in real life) find out about his set knowledge and potential.

Quote: Originally posted by hughesjr on 6/02/2010Actually, as a team advances through the Tourney, I would expect that to provide them benefit I would like to see the teams that advance get to have their attributes increase.

I know the guys who don't make it would loose some points, but it seems more realistic to me that teams that play more should continue to get better.

In GD, teams practice through their playoffs/bowl games.

I can live with it either way ... so it is no big deal.

WAIT .. did I just disagree with WIS ... wow, WTF just happened.

If it was done at all, I would say make it just an IQ improvement thing.

Quote: Originally Posted By cal_bears on 6/02/2010That's what happens in real life though,

But teams who are eliminated can practice in real life, too.

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This would mean that every team (win or lose) can practice legally through the end of its conference tourney,

Teams in the NT and PT tourneys can legally practice only until they lose in those tourneys and teams that don't make those tourneys can not practice past their conference tourney.

I think WIS should adopt the real rules in this situation.

They changed that rule not that many seasons ago...I rememberb reading Season On The Brink, and being surprised that Knight kept his underclassmen practicing all the way thur the end of the tournament even after they had been upset by Cleveland State in the 1st round.