How much time?

[Mobarak]

In MP, how much time do you spend on your team during the regular season on a daily basis? Just one league not all of them.

[Ben E Lou]

In MP, how much time do you spend on your team during the regular season on a daily basis? Just one league not all of them.Depends on the stage, and I suspect that in the offseason, this also has a wide variance based on team talent. (I'm a pretty good drafter and as such often don't have cap space to sign anyone of note during FA1.) All that said, here's a general thought:

Stadium/Staff: 90 seconds
Ticket/Franchise: 30 seconds
FA1:1 (or FA1:2 if it's a league that skips 1:1): 5-30 minutes, depending on how tough the cap situation is. This is the stage where detailed reneg requests are revealed, and as such it's where I map out most of my offseason strategy. If the cap situation is easy, it's fairly quick, but I've spent as long as half an hour running various scenarios through spread sheets on this stage.

FA1:2 through 12: Never more than a minute or two on these stages to adjust offers and check cut players, as the strategy is already mapped out. If it's stage 7 and I intend to make a play for a particular player then that's already on a spreadsheet from stage 1/2, so it's just a matter of making the offer.

FA2:1-5: Five minutes tops on the first stage, then if it's a league that doesn't zip through these I'll check the competition for a minute or two each stage.

TC: 10 minutes between playbook adjustments and weight training

Preseason: If injuries are off, very little time. If they're on, too much time doing stupid roster changes.

Regular Season: Maybe 5-10 minutes for week 1 setting roster, tweaking game plan, etc. 30-60 seconds or less rest of the season. (Load, rex defense, make changes for injuries if necessary, export.)

[Mobarak]

Thanks Ben I really appreciate the answer. Right now I'm probably spending about 40 minutes to an hour each daily for my 3 teams. A lot of my time has been spent manually game planning for defense on each of my opponents.

[PikeStance]

I probably spend way too much time. Then again, I am pretty new to the game itself. I probably spend a disproportional amount of time. on the draft. However, I live across the world from most players. One draft, the AI made almost all of my picks. As a result, I need to research a great deal to ensure that the player I would had picked does get picked. I made one mistake in three drafts, so not too bad (that is the system picked the wrong guy). I basically do the prep in two phases. Round 1- 3 and Rounds 4-7. It helped that I used to study the draft for years making it a little easier to "predict" what will be available at each round.

The next phase is the playbook. I am very picking about my own philosophy. I am sort of a cross between Bum Philips and Bill Walsh. I am not opposed to a spread, but I hate empty backfields. I like the defense to at least think I might run the ball. One of my team already has a coach that prefers Air Coryell. I cringed! I didn't spend too much time on the playbook. However, my other team prefers the West Coach. I spent at least two hours alone reading diagnosing Bill Walsh's offense. i still didn't get what I exactly wanted, but it is way better than what the system generated.

I would probably spend more time with one offense between games than the other; mainly because I am more familiar with one style than the other. I suspect after a few years then my time spent would gradually shorten.