**************************************************************************** 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 or batters faced requirements for mention in the profile during the regular season (other than the minimum 75 batters faced to be on the active roster), this could potentially 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. ***************************************************************************** Manager Profile for 1998 Albuquerque Maul Pitching Chart Usage mode: Strict Rotation size: 5 Next starter: 1 Starting Rotation Neagle Stottlemyr Rosado Smoltz Estes Spot Starters Reyes Spot Pct 30 Mopup situations Cather Jones Embree Karsay Long relievers Embree Cather Setup vs LHB Reyes Loiselle Setup vs RHB Loiselle Closers vs LHB Hernandez Jones Closers vs RHB Dipoto Loiselle .................................................................................................... ***************************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************************** Manager Profile for 1998 Albuquerque Maul Depth Chart for 1998 Albuquerque Maul -- vs LHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Left DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Henderson cf 2: Lewis rf 3: Belle lf 4: Clark 1b 5: Palmer 3b 6: Guerrero,W 2b 7: Halter ss 8: Miller c 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. There are pinch hitters for LHP and pinch hitters for RHP for each side of the depth chart. 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, and do the same for PH vs LHP. There is no minimum PA that you need to be mentioned in the profile (besides the 35 PA 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 ---- Start Miller Clark Guerrero,W Palmer Plat Hatteberg DeShields Def Hatteberg Young Lopez Util1 Hatteberg 0 Young 0 DeShields 0 Lopez 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Halter Belle Henderson Lewis Plat Spiers Mondesi Def Goodwin Util1 Spiers 0 Goodwin 0 Goodwin 0 Mondesi 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Young Young Util2 Lopez Mondesi Util3 Hatteberg Util4 DeShields Util5 .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 1998 Albuquerque Maul Depth Chart for 1998 Albuquerque Maul -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Right DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Henderson cf 2: DeShields 2b 3: Belle lf 4: Clark 1b 5: Palmer 3b 6: Hatteberg c 7: Mondesi rf 8: Spiers ss 9: ----- Catcher ----- --- First Base ---- --- Second Base --- --- Third Base ---- Start Hatteberg Clark DeShields Palmer Plat Miller Guerrero,W Def Young Lopez Util1 Miller 0 Young 0 Guerrero,W 0 Lopez 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Spiers Belle Henderson Mondesi Plat Halter Lewis Def Halter Goodwin Lewis Util1 Halter 0 Goodwin 0 Lewis 0 Goodwin 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Young Young Util2 Halter Miller Util3 Guerrero,W Util4 Util5 .................................................................................................... ***************************************************************************** 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 1998 Albuquerque Maul Manager Tendencies Bunting for a hit: Neutral Sacrifice bunting: Neutral Squeeze bunting: Neutral Hit and run: More frequent Stealing: More frequent Running: More frequent Taking pitches: Neutral PH for a pitcher: Neutral PH for a non-pitcher: Neutral PH for platoon player: Most frequent 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 ************************************************************************** PLAYING TIME LIMITS: If you want a particular player to not be pinch hit for (either vs LHP/RHP or both) let me know. But please only list up to 3 players. DMB won't make it a habit of pinch hitting your superstars. The actual "at bats", "starts", or "relief app" listed below you do not have to fill out. DMB will do that automatically. ************************************************************************** Player-specific tendencies (++ most, + more, = neutral, - less, -- least, N never) Player BHt BSc BSq H&R Stl Run Tak PHL PHR PHP Blw Ard IBB Pck Out Rel Cls Henderson ++ ++ .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 1998 Albuquerque Maul Playing Time Limits Maximum Atbats Player vsLHP vsRHP Starts Relief App Barrett 5 18 0 0 Belle 134 475 0 0 Belliard 5 0 0 0 Cather 0 0 0 36 Clark 147 407 0 0 DeShields 101 319 0 0 Dipoto 0 0 0 68 Embree 0 0 0 55 Estes 0 0 25 0 Flaherty 64 240 0 0 Goodwin 32 127 0 0 Guerrero,W 83 319 0 0 Halter 75 129 0 0 Hatteberg 47 312 0 0 Henderson 156 386 0 0 Hernandez 0 0 0 46 Jones 0 0 0 65 Karsay 0 0 1 10 Lewis 163 422 0 0 Loiselle 0 0 0 54 Lopez 51 155 0 0 Miller 67 101 0 0 Mondesi 116 464 0 0 Neagle 0 0 31 1 Palmer 139 433 0 0 Reyes 0 0 10 9 Rosado 0 0 25 13 Smoltz 0 0 26 0 Spiers 35 349 0 0 Stottlemyr 0 0 33 0 Young 137 455 0 0