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Originally Posted by demons19
I have considered coaching the team myself until I saw how long it would take to go line by line adjusting tactics to optimize!
And if you do that, you cannot change those lines or you would need to do it again. That is why I assumed using a coach would handle all of this.
Other than results, how do you know if there is line chemistry?
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If you go to your players profile there is a section (I think on the bottom left hand side maybe?) that will tell you, I can't remember exactly what tab it's on. It's also visible from the 'Lines' screen by just hovering your cursor over each player name, it will bring up a list of players and also tell you the 'strength' of their chemistry together all the way from 'Legendary' to something worse than that which I can't quite recall..maybe 'slight'.
Well, it can be time consuming, especially if you're suffering a lot of injuries (one thing I like to do is hire a trainer with 20 trainer skill, though I'm not sure if that always helps, I'm just acting like it does). You're also able to set the 'Lineups' screen, here you can set out your depth chart for even strength and special teams as you'd like it, then if you get an injury, all you need to do is go to the lines screen and select the 'create lines from lineups' option and it will autopopulate all of the lines as you've set in the lineup screen! So no dragging players around etc, it will just do it all for you, that's a time saving device which I've only just made use of after about 400 hours in game.
Actually, whilst we're briefly talking about lines and stuff, I've found that since joining MP leagues I realised how much I overlooked defensive players in my SP careers. I always wanted flashy players, scorers and passers to blow the opponent away but what can really help is having guys who are hard working, two way, physical and defensive minded. Don't be afraid to have guys in roles like 'Grinder' 'Agressive Forechecker' and 'Backchecking forward' to compliment lines that have playmakers and scorers on them too, this helps give the team balance, especially if you're using one fo the Dmen as an offensive style.