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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2876986, member: 289"] The subject of Jim Boeheim using his bench comes up frequently. I thought I’d look at the information on the SU Athletics website, which has all the numbers dating back to 1980-81: [URL="https://cuse.com/sports/2009/2/3/sidebar_52.aspx?path=mbasket"]Year-by-Year Statistics/Final Release[/URL] 1981-82 is missing and a couple of links don’t work so I got out my collection of media guides and also used this site: [URL="http://www.orangehoops.org/BBall.htm"]Syracuse Orange Basketball Season Records[/URL] to supplement it. For the Louie and Bouie era, minutes played doesn’t seem to have been kept. What I did as an alternative is to who had the fewest field goal attempts of the 10 minute guys in the subsequent years and averaged that (75). Then I looked to see how many players on the Louie and Bouie teams had that number of field goal attempts. A standard of averaging 10 minutes per game is a good one. A player who wasn’t being used in competitive games would have a hard time averaging that for the season. Here are the number of players who averaged 10 minutes a game each season since 1980-81 with the team one-loss record next to that to see if there is a pattern there: 1976-77 9 players 26-4 1977-78 8 players 22-6 1978-79 9 players 26-4 1979-80 9 players 26-4 1980-81 9 players 22-12 1981-82 8 players 16-13 1982-83 9 players 21-10 1983-84 7 players 23-9 1984-85 7 players 22-9 1985-86 10 players 26-6 1986-87 8 players 31-7 1987-88 7 players 26-9 1988-89 7 players 30-8 1989-90 8 players 26-7 1990-91 8 players 26-6 1991-92 8 players 22-10 1992-93 7 players 20-9 1993-94 7 players 23-7 1994-95 7 players 20-10 1995-96 7 players 29-9 1996-97 9 players 19-13 1997-98 6 players 26-9 1998-99 10 players 21-12 1999-00 8 players 26-6 2000-01 7 players 25-9 2001-02 8 players 23-13 2002-03 8 players 30-5 2003-04 8 players 23-8 2004-05 9 players 27-7 2005-06 8 players 23-12 2006-07 8 players 24-11 2007-08 8 players 21-14 2008-09 8 players 26-10 2009-10 8 players 30-5 2010-11 8 players 27-8 2011-12 10 players 34-3 2012-13 9 players 30-10 2013-14 8 players 28-6 2014-15 8 players 18-13 2015-16 7 players 23-14 2016-17 9 players 19-15 2017-18 8 players 23-14 (2018-19 9 players 13-5) Not counting this year because it’s incomplete: We’ve had 7 ten minute guys 10 times and our record in those seasons is 241-93 (.721, average 24-9) We’ve had 8 ten minute guys 19 times and our record in those seasons is 470-175 (.729, average 25-9) We’ve had 9 ten minute guys 9 times and our record in those seasons is 216-79 (.732, average 24-9) We’ve had 10 ten minute guys 3 times and our record in those seasons is 81-21 (.794, average 27-7) The three years JB used 10 guys for 10 minutes a game are a small sample: 26-6, 21-12 and 34-3. The other years are basically identical, (470/19 = 24.7). So JB uses the number of players he needs to get the same result each year. Some years that’s 7 guys, sometimes 8, sometimes 9 but the end result is similar. The players themselves determine how many guys he’s willing to play. Overall he’s averaged using 9 (8.76), guys 10 minutes a game. That rotation will tend to narrow as the season progresses and in the biggest games but “6.5” is not an accurate assessment: 9 guys are getting a shot to show what they can do and be available if needed. [/QUOTE]

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