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Hello,

I just played my Tournament game and playing against a bot i was sure to win by a high margin, I have a player who needed 4 more minutes to get 48 minutes training this week however he had already 73 minutes. In order to get some more minutes I decided to let him play as reserve in C position and the starting C was also my substitute C. Now my question why does my reserve play the whole last quarter? I thought reserves would get 3 minutes per game if it is not a close game...

Yes I know that's why I set my starter as substitue so he should also play the last quarter and my reserve would get the alst minutes

Thanks for your answers so at least I know now that the GE won't follow my chart...

If i set my starting PF f.ex. as substitute C will he then play ass C or will my reserve also play in this case?

Perpete really gave you the info you need mate. In Garbage Time all the starters are pulled and all the bench goes in. However, if you have less than 10 players some starter will also play all Garbage Time. So if you know you'll have GT, you should take into account that minutes will be more like 28-10, 30-12, 32-14 and so on (i.e. minutes have a "nicer" split) for Starter/Backup/Backup, or 36-12 for Starter/Starter/Reserve

If i set my starting PF f.ex. as substitute C will he then play ass C or will my reserve also play in this case?

He might depending how many bench players you have, but usually he won't play Garbage Time even if you set him as backup at a different position.

Example:
9 players
PG: Start1/Start1/Start1
SG: Start2/Bkup1/Bkup1
SF: Start3/Bkup2/Bkup2
PF: Start4/Bkup3/Bkup3
C: Start5/Start4/Bkup4
All Backups 1-4 will play Garbage Time, plus 1 starter, which should be Start1 at PG

9 players (Bkup4 not used in depth Chart)
PG: Start1/Start1/Start1
SG: Start2/Bkup1/Bkup1
SF: Start3/Bkup2/Bkup2
PF: Start4/Bkup3/Bkup3
C: Start5/Start4/Start4
All Backups 1-3 will play Garbage Time, Bkup4 will be selected by the Coach to either play C or PG depending on his skills compared to Start1 and Start4 and might even play some time at both positions. Either Start1 or Start4 will also get to play in Garbage Time.

10 players (5 players not used in the Depth Chart)
PG: Start1/Start1/Start1
SG: Start2/Start2/Start2
SF: Start3/Start3/Start3
PF: Start4/Start4/Start4
C:Start5/Start5/Start5
All the not used backups will play in Garbage time, the coach will decide which position they play.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 11/20/2015 06:38:44

Thank you for the info, but I never said he was wrong and I understood his answers so you didn't need to do that :p

Just tried to clarify further. The problem is that all the options we have are currently not working as intended. I'm sure other people have questions about cases they don't see very often.

I personally witnessed a very weird case. The backup started the game and then proceeded to play all garbage time (while the backup was on the bench). Something like this (271415.1):
PlayerA/PlayerB/PlayerB
PlayerB starts the game and plays most of the minutes through 3 quarters. In garbage time all other starters are substituted, but that player plays the entire final period.

Incidentally the double bug I reported, would have given you the 44-4 split (or thereabout) that you were looking for.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 11/20/2015 10:58:51