The Official TBL Practice Thread

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:07 am

I usually go with 2 coaches for conditioning, one with some forwards coaching ability and the other with some defensive coaching ability. Then I try to go with ones with a conditioning based coaching style. After that I look to see that they've got decent numbers in Motivating and Discipline.

When you set up your practice schedules, make sure to never put Conditioning or Skating at less than Medium intensity. Honestly, I never put any of them lower than that.

Sucker Punch · Post by **Sucker Punch** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:03 pm

This dude is whining all the time, and I'm not sure why.

I took over the Seattle Thunderbirds of the WHL, and since I had 8 centers and 1 left wing, a few guys had to learn a new position, and none of them liked it. But eventually they learned to play the position, so I took them off left wing practice. That solved the problem for most of them, except for one.

I'm in my second season now, and Jonathan Parker has been doing the same practice regimen as everyone else for about 11 months, but he still complains about practice one or two times per week. It's not making him unhappy, and his morale seems okay, but it's irritating me to no end.

Has anyone experienced this before? He's not practicing left wing, but he is playing it in games, is that what he's whining about? Should I put him at center, his natural position?

aadam · Post by **aadam** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:12 pm

How many training programs (shooting, off. skills, skating...) a single coach can train effectively? Personally, I like to assign 3 to one coach, but never more than 4. And conversely, how many coach a training program should be trained by? Are 2 or 3 enough?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:35 pm

I've read on here that some people won't do more than 3 programs at once for each coach, but I'm not really sure what that idea is based off of.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:25 pm

That's what I've heard as well. I usually try to pick the 3 best coaches for any given area and assign them to that. I also try to limit each coach to training 3-4 areas. The one exception I might make is the head coach. If he's good in all areas I might keep him involved in all of them. The one thing I won't do is assign someone to goalies if they're not really good in that area.

aadam · Post by **aadam** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:32 pm

Beside tiredness and the risk of injuries, are there any drawbacks of having 3 intensive and 3 normal programs on a training schedule? Like 'focusing on too many things means not focusing on anything at all' or something like that.

I would be very grateful, if someone had the time to take a look at my farm coaching staff... Are they good enough?
Link

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:36 pm

I've always used the 3 intensive 3 (actually 4 if you include goaltending, which seems to help positioning) normal and I've never really had any issues.

As for your farm coaches, your link doesn't work. Honestly, just try to hire the best you can. At that level it's a matter of who will sign for you.

grits207 · Post by **grits207** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 am

Quick question for you guys. During the summer one of my star players offensive attributes dropped off quite a bit, what could have caused this to happen.

I had him set all summer to intensely practice everything except goaltending, he is 27 years old and although my coaches are nothing special they also aren't bad.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:34 am

Have the trainers give a report on him. He might have a lingering injury that needs surgery. It also could be a case of his morale being lower and that's hurting his stats.

patrickgirard11 · Post by **patrickgirard11** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:30 pm

In EHM 2007 i didnt find intensity in the practice panel. There is only percentage of power play/ and pkilling and Even Strenghts .

What i discover in practice is that
conditionning good for centers to won face off - Tactics is crucial to succes in power play and to have an offense able to create thinks - important locate your best top guns and train in Shot the day before the game .

if someone can just help me too find the intensity if there is one it will be appreciate !!

The Game is still tough but it is an amazing game.

Richie Daggers Crime · Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:05 pm

In the practice screen, go to the "Schedule" drop down at the top. Choose the regimen you want to alter. The adjustable levels of intensity will be at the bottom of the screen.

patrickgirard11 · Post by **patrickgirard11** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:26 pm

Dame It !! I Got It !!! Thanks that`s make almost than 5 complete Season thath my team is not good !!
my players always struggling in their evolution .

You Got a Big THANK YOU !! you make my Week !!

Now i think i know how too Win !!

Jarmac · Post by **Jarmac** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:38 pm

So I've found that for some reason if I set every category to intensive, my players won't get tired during the season. Is this a bug? Also, will keeping them on intensive for the whole season hurt or help their development?

selne · Post by **selne** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:00 am

Jarmac wrote:So I've found that for some reason if I set every category to intensive, my players won't get tired during the season. Is this a bug? Also, will keeping them on intensive for the whole season hurt or help their development?

My players do get tired!

patrickgirard11 · Post by **patrickgirard11** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:53 pm

Becarful with intensity !! Youre player will not be tired but your player will have chances too broke and be injured !!

i know this is very important too train guys correctly and you will see the impact in the game !!

Wroom · Post by **Wroom** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:13 pm

Weird that Sports Interactive didn't have any guides for this...

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:16 am

Sports Interactive didn't go into much detail on documentation for this game in general.

Post by **Danny** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:19 am

Yeah I've only found out about the option to bench players during games a few weeks ago.

markiemark66 · Post by **markiemark66** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:29 am

How do you bench players?

Post by **Danny** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:50 am

The option is under "view" in the top right corner when you enter your team tactics during a game

Wroom · Post by **Wroom** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:30 pm

So, let's see how well they train this season:

November 2023:

Schroeder:

Pulkkinen:

The Phalanax · Post by **The Phalanax** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:40 am

Do you guys train new positions much?

I probably have at least half my team training new positions, for maximum versatility (e.g. my first line last season was Jeff Carter--Spezza--Alfie). But since I don't see people writing about it, I'm guessing that I'm probably overusing it?
If so, what's the downside to it?

Also, that's neat about the benching -- I will have to test it out!

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:40 pm

I honestly haven't done much (if any... maybe when the game first came out) training for a new position. You can train, train, train on a new position but whether or not your player picks it up all depends on a hidden attribute (only seen in the editor) called Versatility. This attributes determines if a player can pick up a new position or not.

There's a little more info on the subject in this thread...

http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... t=position

Ancelotti · Post by **Ancelotti** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:59 am

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but I've been doing some searching and couldn't find an answer anywhere else. I want to have my Head Coach handle the training, but I'd like to choose what areas my coaches train. The practise guide seems to elude to the fact that this is possible, but whenever I go to options and set my Head Coach to handle training he assigns the coaches to new, and inferior in my opinion, roles.

Is there anything I can do about this, or are my only options to either leave it up to the Head Coach or handle training myself?

Post by **joehelmer** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:05 pm

Ancelotti wrote:Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but I've been doing some searching and couldn't find an answer anywhere else. I want to have my Head Coach handle the training, but I'd like to choose what areas my coaches train. The practise guide seems to elude to the fact that this is possible, but whenever I go to options and set my Head Coach to handle training he assigns the coaches to new, and inferior in my opinion, roles.

Is there anything I can do about this, or are my only options to either leave it up to the Head Coach or handle training myself?

If you don't want the Head Coach to change the areas that your coaches train you have to have control of the training yourself.

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