The SIM is the SIM, and always has a bit of a mind of it's own, but lately I seem to be having a lot of instances where players not even on my Depth Chart at a position are playing there. The players who are listed are not in foul trouble (I always use very aggressive foul setting). Anyone else notice an increase in such activity lately?

I have seen some pretty odd "scrub time" replacements.
E.g.:

PG - Paul Silas
SG - David West
SF - Brad Miller
PF - Andrew Bynum
C - Maurice Lucas

West and Lucas had 0 minutes alotted in the depth chart.

The URAPP team in question does have limited bench minutes for the guards.
The SIM apparently was looking for volunteers to play a "small" position

"it's random as ****" - Scott Ebel (probably)

When are they playing in the incorrect positions? Last 4-6 minutes? Or whenever?

Posted by benhoidal on 6/28/2016 3:47:00 PM (view original):
When are they playing in the incorrect positions? Last 4-6 minutes? Or whenever?

Whenever.

so . . . out of curiosity, I set up a game with a combo of 2 or 3 deep rotations

• each rotation player was assigned "1" minute
• two players were in two rotations (Irving, McGrady)
• two players were not in the rotation at all (Lucas, West)

the rotations in the game log did not seem to have gross "out of position" lineups, but the minute manager got bit befuddled, me'thinks . . .

LAYER	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	TP
05-06 Kyle Korver*	45	8/19	3/10	7/8	0	5	2	0	1	3	3	26
00-01 Tim Hardaway*	37	6/18	2/8	0/0	0	4	8	0	3	6	5	14
77-78 Paul Silas	35	4/13	0/1	3/3	5	9	4	1	2	1	3	11
66-67 Willis Reed*	31	7/14	0/0	2/5	3	12	0	0	1	3	6	16
83-84 Maurice Lucas	25	4/15	0/0	2/2	8	16	3	1	1	4	3	10
15-16 David West	16	1/3	0/0	2/2	1	6	0	0	1	3	3	4
10-11 Brad Miller	11	0/2	0/0	1/2	2	4	5	0	0	0	2	1
06-07 Anderson Varejao*	10	2/2	0/0	1/2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5
89-90 Derrick McKey*	10	2/4	0/1	0/0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
99-00 Tracy McGrady	9	2/5	0/0	0/0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	4
11-12 Kyrie Irving	7	3/6	0/0	0/0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	6
07-08 Andrew Bynum	3	0/0	0/0	0/0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
TOTALS		39/101	5/20	18/24	22	60	25	3	12	21	26	101

Similar pattern -- no clue as to why McKey is under utilized as a starter, or why the non-rotation players get so many minutes . . .

PLAYER	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	TP
05-06 Kyle Korver*	46	9/25	5/16	0/0	1	5	1	1	1	2	4	23
00-01 Tim Hardaway*	42	9/25	3/8	0/0	0	3	11	0	4	5	1	21
66-67 Willis Reed*	40	7/17	0/1	5/5	5	15	3	0	0	6	3	19
77-78 Paul Silas	30	2/7	0/0	2/2	2	5	1	1	1	0	1	6
83-84 Maurice Lucas	23	5/9	0/0	1/1	2	4	5	0	1	2	3	11
89-90 Derrick McKey*	13	3/5	0/0	0/0	2	4	2	1	0	0	3	6
15-16 David West	12	1/5	0/0	1/2	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	3
99-00 Tracy McGrady	9	2/5	0/0	0/1	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	4
06-07 Anderson Varejao*	9	2/4	0/0	1/2	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	5
10-11 Brad Miller	5	0/0	0/0	0/0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
07-08 Andrew Bynum	5	1/2	0/0	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
11-12 Kyrie Irving	5	2/2	0/0	0/0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	4
TOTALS		43/106	8/25	10/13	14	44	28	6	9	18	18	104

The SIM being the SIM.
WIS would much rather make excuses for it than work on it. That's the sad, annoying part.

For this experiment, player minutes were set to either 8 or 12, depending on whether there were 3 or 2 players in the rotation.
Total minutes was 24 minutes per position, rather than 2 or 3.
Individual rotation minutes were either 0,8, 12 or 20 per player.

The SIM appeared to like this a bit better:

PLAYER	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	TP
99-00 Tracy McGrady	36	10/20	1/3	4/4	4	5	5	2	4	3	1	25
11-12 Kyrie Irving	29	7/14	0/1	6/6	1	7	7	1	1	5	3	20
00-01 Tim Hardaway*	29	4/18	1/9	7/10	1	2	5	0	1	2	0	16
66-67 Willis Reed*	25	6/14	0/0	0/0	5	13	0	1	2	2	2	12
89-90 Derrick McKey*	23	3/8	0/2	2/2	0	1	0	1	2	2	2	8
05-06 Kyle Korver*	23	2/7	2/7	2/3	0	1	2	0	0	2	4	8
77-78 Paul Silas	21	2/3	0/1	0/0	2	7	1	2	1	0	2	4
06-07 Anderson Varejao*	20	2/5	0/0	0/1	2	5	1	1	2	0	2	4
10-11 Brad Miller	16	2/3	1/1	0/0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	5
07-08 Andrew Bynum	11	1/2	0/0	3/4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	5
15-16 David West	6	1/1	0/0	1/2	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	3
83-84 Maurice Lucas	2	0/0	0/0	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTALS		40/95	5/24	25/32	17	48	23	13	13	16	17	110