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Can someone explain how much does stamina effect overal performance?
How much better would a player play e.g. if he had stamina 10 and some other player with stamina 4? (same skills)
In free throws?

For stamina; the effect will be felt as the game goes on. The player will not perform at as high of a level especially in the fourth quarter. You are more likely to give up more leads late in the game, defense will suffer down the stretch, and your players will not shoot as high of a percentage. Stamina is very important. You should try to maintain it at or above mediocre at the bare minimum. It is very worth it as I have lost many games due to low stamina especially on the road and while trying to train players 48+ minutes.

For free throws; stamina does not affect free throws from what I understand. Free throws are very interesting in that very low (i.e. 1 or 2 level) free throws will almost always result in an automatic miss and thus no points. I have actually seen player go years without making any free throws. Now, I have also noticed that players with mid-tier leveled ratings in free throws seem to not vary quite as much in makes. They will generally make anywhere from 65-75% of their shots. Then once you move past level 12 or so you will hit over 80%. This is a general rule from what I have experienced through the game.

Last edited by saman1812 at 4/22/2011 12:42:41 AM

Thanks!
If I had no players to train... do you think that if I trained my team for the entire season in stamina, would it improve my teams overall performance? Would it be worth it?

You don't need to train stamina for an entire season. 2 or 3 weeks of training in a season should be enough (unless your players have atrocious stamina or something like that). Stamina trains pretty fast. 3 weeks of training should give you 2 pops on average.

Thank you for your answer, I already know so... my question although is aiming somewhere else. The ideal is to train stamina 2-3 weeks in a season. I'm asking how much would my team benefit if I train stamina for the entire season and each and every one of my players had stamina 9+. Would that increase me teams performance enough... so that I could say that it was worth it?

i really doubt it will be worth it (but its certainly not a bad thing, theres just better options for training if you are talking about a whole seaon)

unless if your starters all have atrocious or pitiful stamina. once past a certain point (such as proficient lets say) the increases in stamina wont effect your game as much as it did when it increased from inept to mediocre because a normal starter wouldnt play more than 40 minutes per game anyways (unless if you are planning to get 48 mins of training all done in one game)

First of all, stamina can affect free throw in a sense that the player will be tired if he has a low stamina and he won't perform very well overall, hence affecting the free throw as well.

About training 2-3 weeks of stamina every season. In general, stamina drops 1 level down once a season, so if your players have good stamina, then training it once a season will be sufficient in my opinion (however, training 2 weeks will ensure that their stamina will stay at the same level or most likely increase).

The maximum stamina a player can have is 10 and in order to keep it at 10, one needs to train it every week. Ofc better the stamina, less drop in performance even after playing for a long time, so your players will maintain good performance, thus it will increase your team performance overall. But in my opinion, average/respectable stamina is sufficient.

The one drawbacks of good stamina is that a player will play for a long time, hence it can mess up the weekly minutes leading to drop in game shape. Lower game shape will reduce his level of performance, hence the team performance could possibly decrease.

So there are 2 sides. But keeping it around average/respectable/strong for all (or at least the starters) will be a good idea.

Thank you all for your answers!!
I do not intend to train stamina of free throws for the entire season... I just wanted to know how much it would affect my team performance overall!!
Thanks again!