Hi Everyone--

I am in my second season and have a question that is killing me!  I have 3 players on my roster that I have set to play at maximum.  I have my depth chart set on play by target minutes.  Yet in the last 3 games, I have had at least one of the players only play 20 minutes.  None of them have been in foul trouble and my best player did not even start the second half in this last game.  Any ideas on how to overcome this or what may be causing it?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
6/23/2010 3:59 AM

Very few coaches use target minutes and I have very limited experience with it.   But I assumed that, if you set for maximum minutes, your players would keep playing until they fouled out.   Target minutes doesn't  have a setting for 'foul trouble only' , like  fatigue minutes.  Your player, Darlington, picked up 3 fouls in the first half and didn't start in the 2nd. You had the same thing happen to a guard in an earlier game.   So, it appears that the engine is set up that way. I'd send in a ticket.

On your player game plan, make sure you've  indicated 'more agressive' in the fouling category. 

My next thought was that your uptempo was tiring your players, forcing a substitution.  I thought, though, that the 'maximum minutes' would take precedence over fatigue and a tired player would keep playing. Since target minutes is so rarely used,  it's possible this is a problem that hasn't been noticed before.  Again, I’d send a ticket.  

6/23/2010 5:09 AM (edited)
al hit it right on target. You say that none were in foul trouble, but 3 fouls in the first half is foul trouble. Your top 3 guys have had at least 3 or more fouls in every one of those games, so foul trouble was almost surely the issue.

It seems that maximum minutes does get trumped by the foul settings, so if you want them to play through the fouls, you need to set them to 'more aggressive' in terms of foul trouble settings.
6/23/2010 8:52 AM
Thanks
6/23/2010 10:54 AM

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