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Originally Posted by JeffR
We'll take a look to make sure everything's working propelry, but the usage settings generally won't produce exactly the icetime splits specified, particularly in the case of special teams. The in-game coaching AI has a lot of leeway to react to specific game situations like player fatigue, so it'll make its own independent adjustments (rather than just generating a random 1-100 number and deciding which unit goes out, regardless of whether or not its members are tired.) That can have a large effect on how the icetime is actually split - if there's a PP line that doesn't play together normally, for example, that can often result in part of the line being ready and part fatigued at the start of a PP, so the AI has to work around that.
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This is over a large sample size - the whole season in fact where the first unit receives 75% of the ice time despite the settings being set to 50:50.
I get there would be massive fluctuations over a game to game basis but over the course of a full year this should even out and both units should be roughly equal in ice time.