How many coach the games yourself?
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TehJesster
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How many coach the games yourself?
Hey everyone, I'm new to The Blue Line community. I just had a question for everyone, how many of you coach the games yourself, either in regular season or post-season. Do you set your own tactics/lines or let your coach do that? I'm just wondering how involved everyone gets with tactics/lines/coaching and how successful they've become doing it that way.
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Danny
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Welcome 
I do everything on my own on my NHL team, I also run my farm team where I only set the lines and practice and let the coach do everything else.
But my main focus is on the NHL and I just coach the AHL affiliate to control ice time and practice of my youngsters hence I don't care much about results there.
Sometimes when I'm down or up in the third by a huge margin I change the lines a little bit, give my 4th line guys some PP time and stuff like that, that's why I prefer to have full control, just don't trust my coach to do it as I want it to be done
I do everything on my own on my NHL team, I also run my farm team where I only set the lines and practice and let the coach do everything else.
But my main focus is on the NHL and I just coach the AHL affiliate to control ice time and practice of my youngsters hence I don't care much about results there.
Sometimes when I'm down or up in the third by a huge margin I change the lines a little bit, give my 4th line guys some PP time and stuff like that, that's why I prefer to have full control, just don't trust my coach to do it as I want it to be done
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Shadd666
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First of all, welcome to TBL! 
I do everything with my NHL team. For the AHL team, they aren't supposed to be under my control, so i let the AI do its job, even if it's sometimes frustrating
For the success part, well... I'm the Blues, and after an awful first season (remember it's the Blues!) passed to rebuild, i'm doing good in my second season. I'm midway of the season, heading the Central Division with 4 rookies in the team and tons of prospects waiting to be signed. My plan was just to make the playoffs for this season, but i won't complain if i can grab a division title
I do everything with my NHL team. For the AHL team, they aren't supposed to be under my control, so i let the AI do its job, even if it's sometimes frustrating
For the success part, well... I'm the Blues, and after an awful first season (remember it's the Blues!
) passed to rebuild, i'm doing good in my second season. I'm midway of the season, heading the Central Division with 4 rookies in the team and tons of prospects waiting to be signed. My plan was just to make the playoffs for this season, but i won't complain if i can grab a division title -
TehJesster
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Shadd666
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Personnally, i play with extended highlights. You have a bigger feeling about your team by viewing the full game, but it takes 1h15-1h30 to manage just one game...so it's weeks and months to manage a single season!
IMO, you don't see enough stuff with key only. Goals and penalties, nothing more. Not enough (at least for me) to see what's going right/wrong on the ice and make the needed tweaks and adjustments.
Extended highlights takes 10-15 minutes to manage a game and allows you to see a good part of the action. The best compromise, according to me.
IMO, you don't see enough stuff with key only. Goals and penalties, nothing more. Not enough (at least for me) to see what's going right/wrong on the ice and make the needed tweaks and adjustments.
Extended highlights takes 10-15 minutes to manage a game and allows you to see a good part of the action. The best compromise, according to me.
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Danny
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I don't use any highlights personally, I don't have the time for this, it would take me probably a whole real life season to advance one season in the game. Pre-season takes me already about one week in real life, 1-2 hours per day. I just set the clock to medium and no text commentary at all, and I intervene when I see the need to do so, means I react to players taking too many penalties, having bad ratings, or some 3rd/4th line guys being on fire (I might give them some PP time then).
I read match reports mostly, at least I skip through them to find certain patterns, for instance when a defenceman takes way too many hooking penalties I'd consider chaning his gap control and things like that.
I read match reports mostly, at least I skip through them to find certain patterns, for instance when a defenceman takes way too many hooking penalties I'd consider chaning his gap control and things like that.