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Originally Posted by tward13
But it's not asking you how many minutes of game time on that screen. It's asking you how many minutes of ES time and you DON'T know how many minutes of ES time there will be anymore than you know how many minutes of PP or PK. What you do know is what % of whatever ES time there is that you'd like to allocate to each line.
That's why in games with lots of penalties 4th lines may get fewer chances. In effect what is happening is their peercentage of ES time isn't changing but their amount of time is because there are fewer ES minutes to allocate.
I always know the desired split of time for each line, what I don't know is how many minutes of any type of time (ES, PP, PK) there will be.
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You make good points, however I would argue that at the beginning of the game I do know that I have 60 minutes of ES time. I don't know if I'll have any PP/PK time. The chances of having zero PP/PK time are very slim, but possible. What I do know is, when I make my game plan, I have 60 minutes of ES time to start the game.
At the end of the day, we all have our own coaching/managing styles and how we'd like to implement them. Maybe there's a possibility that this setting will be made as a choice for the user to pick either minutes or %, depending on their preference. That would solve the problem, would it not? Because honestly, we could argue all day which is better, and we both make good points for our argument. In the end, it's a win win if both options are available.