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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2744530, member: 199"] Great research, but also want to point out a few things that can make a huge difference for a freshman in terms of playing time: 1. Need - when Bria and Stefanie showed up as freshman, the team desperately needed a center and PG and so they p0layed many more minutes than they would have had there been a strong post and PG returning to the team. Returners who have established themselves in the rotation get first crack at minutes. Wolff, Crockett, Turner, and Strother arrived after the TASS graduation - someone had to replace those four! 2. Injuries - when Sveta went down in 2001 in game 19, her 25 minutes/game needed to be redistributed (plus Battle and Ralph also went down.) Maya became a starter when Kalana went down and probably notched up more when Thomas went down (and every time Brittany couldn't go.) Hayes minutes (and starts increased with Doty went down. 3. Injuries also affect some of the freshman listed - Doty and Wolff both lost much of their freshman years to injury so the numbers are maybe inflated as OOC then was pretty weak. NB - Battle had two freshman years and you chose the second - her first was 5 games and 10.4 minutes/game. 4. Transfer - Walker left before the end of the first semester so again her minutes might be inflated by the OOC schedule. 5. Team size/strength - there are only so many minutes available during competitive games so how strong a team is and how quickly they finish off an opponent greatly affects the minutes played by the non-rotational players. Last year with a primary 6 player rotation, having 6 players plus 1 walk on on the bench to share the remaining minutes is very different than 2016 when the bench was 4 players plus two walk-ons. In 2016 the team wasn't really challenged so the mop-up minutes were probably greater. [/QUOTE]

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