I have been think about the best way to get the most growth out of my players. I have some ideas but welcome any sugestions or alternative ways other coaches might use.
As a rule I generally spread out practice minutes evenly over a players core values trying to never go any lower than 15 in conditioning and 11 in FT. I seem to get good even growth this way.
However, I was wondering would it be more benificial to put say 20 minutes into a couple of high potential categories and set the rest to 7 or the minimum so as to not have the player lose anything in that category?

in general, give more minutes to high potential areas if they are (a) core for his role and (b) not below 10 or above 90 already - you will get more improvement that way

give much less to low potential areads

if FT is low potential you can go below 11

if ath, spd and stamina are low potential, you can and should go below 15 for conditioning

i work on cores first.... then i go to seconds... like I have a SG with avg or high potential everywhere... i'll load up on conditioning, defense, per and BH first.... then when one maxes out i move to passing and lp...

how can you tell what there potential is  in a particular rating other than those emails is there something im not seeing

if you used FSS you got potential info during recruiting

then, you get a "player thoughts" email during exhibitions - that is the time to be sure that you have allocated your minutes wisely

then, you get capped out messages during the season if guys max out

one of the best options to get the most out of playing time is to put your low low/maxed out categories all at 0 minutes of practice (even FT shooting). you effectively have no penalty for doing this (occasionally will see a 1 point drop but rare), and you can put your minutes to good use elsewhere.