Question of the Day: Is Training Camps and Scouting worth it?

[Reginald Rutledge]

The grueling OTAs and training camps. The hours and hours of going through bases and charting their performance. The strength test to determine who will be on your lines. The passing drills and running drills, all a part of creating a champion. The time invested is something you can never get back but is it worth it?

In preseason, you go watch teams play and chart information. You head home and put that information to a computer for notes. You look at league stats and study trends, tendencies, and weaknesses. In the game, after a read and react situation, you adjust that safety to come up and make a play. The question becomes, "Did he make that play?" If so, was that PURE luck or months of training camp and knowing how your players run.

When I told an onlooker how my back would run, and it happened, he was amazed. For me, it was business as usual as this is the norm for any average miniature football coach. Is this type of attention to detail important to you?

[Electric Coach]

Yes, camps and scouting are necessary. I can’t build a team unless I hold a camp. In an effort to find the right base for each player, I have to go the through the paces of scouting each base and testing it under load. I find great pleasure in analyzing the performance of a base among other prospective bases.

People outside of this hobby will never understand the amount of time it takes to build a team that will play well. Unfortunately, they believe that all one needs to do in regards to playing this game is put a figure on a base and turn on the board. So much more is involved.

Maurice

The Electric Coach

[Coach K-LO]

Originally Posted by Reginald Rutledge

The grueling OTAs and training camps. The hours and hours of going through bases and charting their performance. The strength test to determine who will be on your lines. The passing drills and running drills, all a part of creating a champion. The time invested is something you can never get back but is it worth it?

In preseason, you go watch teams play and chart information. You head home and put that information to a computer for notes. You look at league stats and study trends, tendencies, and weaknesses. In the game, after a read and react situation, you adjust that safety to come up and make a play. The question becomes, "Did he make that play?" If so, was that PURE luck or months of training camp and knowing how your players run.

When I told an onlooker how my back would run, and it happened, he was amazed. For me, it was business as usual as this is the norm for any average miniature football coach. Is this type of attention to detail important to you?

without this you will never make it to the title game!!!!

Part of the reason that I am not more into customs is because I spend so much time training (tweaking) bases for the next team or upgrades to the current team until we cannot update any longer for that season.

I try to work each player from the QB to the NT and every player in between to 53. Backups are very important to my style because they would be starters on other teams so they can play. They are change of pace players or specialist (they don't call them that anymore) for the game-changing plays that make a difference.

K-LO