Here's the sample profile. Opening day will be November 4, 2002. If I don't get a managerial profile by then (or if I get 20 profiles on Sunday), some people may have the computer managing for them for awhile while I enter in lists. ***************************************************************************** TENDENCIES: You may tweak your managerial tendencies using 5 different levels: Least Frequent, Less Frequent, Neutral, More Frequent, Most Frequent. Setting everything to neutral will pretty must just use your team to its abilities (IE-if you have a guy who steals a lot of bases, he still will steal a lot of bases). These set the aggressiveness or passiveness of your team on certain issues. PH stands for "pinch hitter". ***************************************************************************** Manager Profile for 1989 Albuquerque Maul Manager Tendencies Bunting: Neutral Hit and run: Neutral Stealing: Neutral Running: Neutral Take pitch: Neutral PH for a pitcher: Neutral PH for a non-pitcher: Neutral PH for platoon player: Neutral PH in a blowout: Neutral Pitching around: Neutral Intentional walk: Neutral Pickoff throws: Neutral Pitching out: Neutral Using relievers: Neutral Using closers: Neutral Holding runners: Neutral Infield in: Neutral Guard lines: Neutral **************************************************************************** PITCHING: You may have three different modes of "Usage" for pitching: Strict, Time, or Skip. Strict will just play your pitchers in the order that you list them under starters. Skip is like Strict, except that if you have a rest day then it will play your 1st starter earlier. Time proportionally doles out the starts to all of your starters on the roster based upon how many real life starts they have (it effectively chucks your starting rotation out the window). You must list a minimum of 4 starters, and even then, it's probably a better idea to go with 5 to prevent early burnout. If you use "Strict" or "Skip" (but *NOT* "Time"), you may use spot starters. Spot starters will start a certain percentage of the time (specified by you) in place of the regular starter. Since the "Time" usage doesn't really use the starting pitching profile, using spot starters won't help. Also note, you are limited to one spot starter per "regular" starter, and you must specify a percentage you wish to spot start them (otherwise, it's going to be 0%, and it's just as if you never specified a starter in the first place). People who have a durability rating for starters may start. People who have a durability rating for relievers may relieve. People who have durability ratings for both may do both. Note: In the regular season, players of any IP may be mentioned in the profile. There is no minimum IP for the regular season (but there is the 110% usage rule). For relievers, you should specify your closers vs left or right, setup men vs left or right, and your long & mopup starters. You may list up to 5 people for each of these spots, and you put players in multiple slots (although you can't list them twice in the same spot). Since we don't have minimum IP requirements for mention in the profile, (other than the minimum 15 IP to be on the active roster), it could lead to teams burning out large numbers of their players early who didn't have many IP to begin with. I ask that you try to pace your players so that this doesn't happen. **************************************************************************** Pitching Chart Usage mode: Strict Rotation size: 5 Next starter: 1 Starting Rotation Stieb Bosio Scott Smoltz King Spot Starters Oliveras Spot Pct 15 Mopup situations Puleo Peterek Hernandez Long relievers Pall Puleo Peterek Hernandez Setup vs LHB Jackson Pall Setup vs RHB Jackson Pall Olin Closers vs LHB Olson Jackson Closers vs RHB Olson Jackson ***************************************************************************** Batting lineups: You will need to submit lineups for both LHP & RHP. Since this a non-DH league, the 9th batting slot will be reserved for the pitcher. ***************************************************************************** Usage: Game by game Starting Lineup 1: Dunston ss 2: Reed 3b 3: Davis 1b 4: Heath c 5: Ready 2b 6: Wynne lf 7: Belle rf 8: Barfield cf 9: ************************************************************************ DEPTH CHART: For the depth chart, need to have at least 1 utility player for every position. You may also mention platoon players (those that come in when a reliever of the opposite handedness does) and defensive players (those that come in the late innings of close games). The way you can distribute playing time is by letting the utility players start a certain %age of the games. You can monitor this by either of two ways: Trackstarts or game by game. Trackstarts looks at the season as a whole, and tries to distribute playing time so that at the end of the season the playing time has been distributed %age-wise according to the diagram. Game by game randomly determines who starts the games without regards to past performances. Here a utility player with a 20% start rate has a 20% chance of starting that game. You can also have up to 5 pinch hitters for each side. With DMB 7.0d, there's PH vs LHP and PH vs RHP for each depth chart side. The DMB manual doesn't really explain why they have these redundant PH profiles, but I'd recommend just putting the same guys as PH vs RHP on both sides (like I have), and do the same for PH vs LHP. For the '89 season, there is no minimum AB that you need to be mentioned in the profile (besides the 30 AB minimum to be on the active roster). But remember that there is a 110% total plate apparance limit, and a 200% plate apperance limit for each side. Try not to burn people out early. ************************************************************************** Catcher First Base Second Base Third Base Shortstop Start Heath Davis Ready Reed Dunston Plat Harper Briley Def Myers delos Snts Util1 Harper 0 delos Snts 0 Briley 0 Kutcher 0 Speier 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Left Field Center Field Right Field Desig. Hitter Start Wynne Barfield Belle Plat Incaviglia Armas Def Kutcher Ford Util1 Incaviglia 0 Jefferson 0 Armas 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 PH vs LHP PH vs RHP Start Plat Def Util1 delos Snts Richie Util2 Briley Speier Util3 Harper Incaviglia Util4 Harper Util5 Depth Chart for 1989 Albuquerque Maul -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Starting Lineup 1: Reed 3b 2: Dunston ss 3: Davis 1b 4: Harper c 5: Incaviglia lf 6: Briley 2b 7: Barfield cf 8: Armas rf 9: Catcher First Base Second Base Third Base Shortstop Start Harper Davis Briley Reed Dunston Plat Heath Ready Def Myers delos Snts Ready Util1 Heath 0 delos Snts 0 Ready 0 Kutcher 0 Speier 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Left Field Center Field Right Field Desig. Hitter Start Incaviglia Barfield Armas Plat Wynne Belle Def Kutcher Ford Util1 Wynne 0 Jefferson 0 Jefferson 30 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 PH vs LHP PH vs RHP Start Plat Def Util1 delos Snts Richie Util2 Ready Speier Util3 Heath Util4 Belle Util5