How in the world does this show me that "freshman can be volatile"? All the other freshman players followed a similar pattern, as they have my entire HD career. This one player broke his own pattern in the final semester. It is an outlier result. It is not explainable with anything but fantastically sh!t rng. Player was doing well, I took a few minutes off. Player was doing poorly, I added even more back. Player did not improve at all. That is an anomaly. I responded to a low midterm with a drastic increase in SH time, enough that were it not an extreme anomaly, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Good to see you have picked up the torch from coachspud in touting the games unflinching perfection and blaming coaches for extreme irregularities with the RNG.

if you manage GPA toward 2.5 as the target, now and then a kid will either flunk or you will need to kick in tons of minutes to rescue him.

I tend to manage toward a GPA of 3.0 and to kick up minutes more than you did. My experience suggests that the level of minutes and the degree of increase you used run the risk of losing eligibility. I dont think its a failure of the RNG - its a rare event.

but my experience my not be representative, so I cant say for sure

I’ve come to find that less is more for study hall. Everyone gets 0 until the midterms. Give 4 minutes to the highlighted players, don’t make the kids hit the books unless their professor is on some lame stuff! Last player I had go ineligible was a senior JUCO who had a 2.0 HS GPA, which is bullshiZ in my opinion. Upperclassmen shouldn’t need study hall, it’s useless. Almost like throwing practice minutes in the trash there’s no incentive to having good grades. Congrats to the coaches that maintain a 3.0 GPA though.

Posted by zagsrulez on 6/25/2018 12:09:00 AM (view original):
I’ve come to find that less is more for study hall. Everyone gets 0 until the midterms. Give 4 minutes to the highlighted players, don’t make the kids hit the books unless their professor is on some lame stuff! Last player I had go ineligible was a senior JUCO who had a 2.0 HS GPA, which is bullshiZ in my opinion. Upperclassmen shouldn’t need study hall, it’s useless. Almost like throwing practice minutes in the trash there’s no incentive to having good grades. Congrats to the coaches that maintain a 3.0 GPA though.

Less isn’t more, but I know what you mean. You can do it that way, and you’ll usually be fine. But you’ll occasionally get burned. I’m just going off what people like snafu report; I wouldn’t know, since I’ve never had a player lose eligibility. You can call it a waste, but I’ve also never put SH minutes into a senior that wasn’t already completely maxed out. I rarely have more than 2 on a junior and 4 on a sophomore. It’s the first year where I aim for a good baseline. Those extra 3-5 SH minutes aren’t doing much good on the least important attributes for a freshman, and they’ll make up those points when they have more PT later in the career anyway.

Posted by snafu4u on 6/24/2018 10:57:00 PM (view original):
How in the world does this show me that "freshman can be volatile"? All the other freshman players followed a similar pattern, as they have my entire HD career. This one player broke his own pattern in the final semester. It is an outlier result. It is not explainable with anything but fantastically sh!t rng. Player was doing well, I took a few minutes off. Player was doing poorly, I added even more back. Player did not improve at all. That is an anomaly. I responded to a low midterm with a drastic increase in SH time, enough that were it not an extreme anomaly, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Good to see you have picked up the torch from coachspud in touting the games unflinching perfection and blaming coaches for extreme irregularities with the RNG.

I’ve had kid do worse after adding more minutes. It’s rare but it’s happened.

This thread is stupid and pointless. You shouldn't conversate with people if all you want is to be told you're right. You're just a petulant child.

Posted by snafu4u on 6/24/2018 2:43:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cubcub113 on 6/24/2018 9:37:00 AM (view original):
Unlike everyone else I feel for Snafu a lot. The 2.9 was like a 5 in 100 rng for the good, the 1.8 was like a 5 in 100 rng for the bad. It's a pretty dumb part of the game, but I guess another poor ramification of the combo defense

Thanks cubcub113--this is all I really want. Someone else to recognize its a dumb part of the game and I was utterly funked by an incredibly improbable RNG--you know the WIS forum equivalent of a big hug and encouragement that everyone is actually out to get me and the game is unfair to me and only me.

I totally feel for you, its a very enraging part of the game when someone gets that 5 in 100 bad luck to ruin their season

Cardman probably puts 27 practice on each player to make it a 0 probability for a player to be declared inel

Posted by cubcub113 on 6/25/2018 10:39:00 AM (view original):
Cardman probably puts 27 practice on each player to make it a 0 probability for a player to be declared inel

27? Someone is finally inching closer to mine!