When selecting a offense is it better to look at the skills of your players or their IQ? For example, the fast break requires good stamina and a deep bench. If you have a heft advantage in stamina and a deep bench over your opponent, but most of your starters are D's in the offense, will it hurt you a lot?

I would also think that speed and athleticism would help in a FB offense.

IQs are a huge boost at low levels. I would want at least C's in anything I would run for the whole game, but B's and A's are what you should shoot for, for all your starters.

If anything practice any new def/off you want to use and you can switch over to it if your team fits it more. I would only do this though if the players that your switching for are Frosh or Soph though.

Thats my 2 cents.

How long of practicing at 20 mins does it take to bring players up from D to B? I am recruiting players who can run the offense I want, but I am more concerned with my existing team. Their skill set looks like it would be successful, but their IQs just aren't there.

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Iguana1's BBIQ Practice Minute Chart: These are the ranges
I've found based on the 4 seasons since the iq grading has
changed.
The number on the assumes a "fast" learner. WE of 80 and
GPA over 3.2. The number on the right is for a slower learner.
WE around 40, GPA under 2.5.
Of course there are extreme cases on both ends. I had a player
with a WE of 11 that took about 20% longer than the second
number.

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F > D- 50-75
D- > D 50-75
D > D+ 50-75
D+ > C- 50-75 total F > C- 200-300
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C- > C 100-150
C > C+ 100-150
C+ > B- 120-200 total C- > B- 320-500 total F > B- 520-800
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B- > B 290-400
B > B+ 290-400 total B- > B+ 580-800 total F > B+ 1100-1600
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B+ > A- 375-500
A- > A 575-775
A > A+ 450-625 total B+ > A+ 1400-1900 total F > A+ 2500-3500

Am I reading this correctly...

To go from a F-D- would be 50 minutes with a fast learner.
To go from a D- to a D would be an additional 50?

Yes, that is correct.

How do minutes accumulate? In other words if I need 200 minutes to go from a F to a C-, and I allocate 20 minutes of practice time, how long would it take to get to the 200? 10 years, 10 days, 10 games?

10 practice days

Great, thanks for the help guys