Here's the sample profile. Please try to get your managerial profiles in early (opening day is April 16, 2000). 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 2000 Seattle Moshers Manager Tendencies Bunting: Less frequent 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: More frequent PH in a blowout: Neutral Pitching around: Neutral Intentional walk: Neutral Pickoff throws: Neutral Pitching out: Neutral Using relievers: More frequent Using closers: More frequent 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 Maddux Appier Heredia Lopez Washburn Spot Starters Valdes Spot Pct 50 Mopup situations Shaw Rincon Long relievers Jones,D Shaw Beck Setup vs LHB Shuey Rincon Setup vs RHB Shuey Shaw Closers vs LHB Wendell Shuey Closers vs RHB Wendell Beck .................................................................................................... ***************************************************************************** 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 2000 Seattle Moshers Depth Chart for 2000 Seattle Moshers -- vs LHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Left DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Vina 2b 2: Mueller 3b 3: Seguignol 1b 4: Ordonez lf 5: Salmon rf 6: Kotsay cf 7: Blanco c 8: Womack ss 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 '98 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 Blanco Seguignol Vina Mueller Womack Plat Zaun Clark Ripken Def Fabregas Clark Vina Castro Util1 Zaun 0 Clark 0 Canizaro 15 Ripken 0 Castro 0 Util2 0 0 0 0 0 Util3 0 0 0 0 0 Util4 0 0 0 0 0 Util5 0 0 0 0 0 --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Designated Hitter Start Ordonez Kotsay Salmon Plat Lankford Def Lankford Kotsay Util1 Crespo 0 Lankford 0 Crespo 0 0 Util2 0 0 0 0 Util3 0 0 0 0 Util4 0 0 0 0 Util5 0 0 0 0 ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Macias De la Rosa Util2 Canizaro Clark Util3 Ripken Christensn Util4 Crespo Util5 .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 2000 Seattle Moshers Depth Chart for 2000 Seattle Moshers -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Right DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Vina 2b 2: Lankford cf 3: Clark 1b 4: Ordonez lf 5: Salmon rf 6: Ripken 3b 7: Zaun c 8: Womack ss 9: ----- Catcher ----- --- First Base ---- --- Second Base --- --- Third Base ---- ---- Shortstop ---- Start Zaun Clark Vina Ripken Womack Plat Blanco Seguignol Mueller Def Fabregas Clark Castro Util1 Fabregas 0 Crespo 0 Crespo 10 Mueller 0 Castro 0 Util2 0 0 0 0 0 Util3 0 0 0 0 0 Util4 0 0 0 0 0 Util5 0 0 0 0 0 --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Designated Hitter Start Ordonez Lankford Salmon Plat Kotsay Def Util1 Crespo 0 Kotsay 0 Crespo 0 0 Util2 0 0 0 0 Util3 0 0 0 0 Util4 0 0 0 0 Util5 0 0 0 0 ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Seguignol De la Rosa Util2 Macias Christensn Util3 Blanco Crespo Util4 Mueller Kotsay Util5 Kotsay .................................................................................................... ************************************************************************** PLAYING TIME LIMITS: You can't change the maximum # of at bats that a player can get, but you can toggle the switch for "can be PH for?". However, note that even if it is set for "Yes", it won't always happen. I can almost guarantee that Jeff Bagwell will never be pinch-hit for. **ALSO NOTE** You don't have to include the actual numbers below. DMB automatically does this. You only have to worry about this section if you want to change their status from being able to be pinch hit for to not being able to be pinch hit for. ********************************************************************** Manager Profile for 2000 Seattle Moshers Playing Time limits for 2000 Seattle Moshers Maximum Atbats Can be PH for? Player vsLHP vsRHP vsLHP vsRHP Starts Relief App Kotsay 104 426 Yes Yes 0 0 Salmon 155 413 Yes Yes 0 0 Lankford 74 318 Yes Yes 0 0 Womack 123 494 Yes Yes 0 0 Shuey 0 0 Yes Yes 0 57 Mueller 108 452 Yes Yes 0 0 Maddux 0 0 Yes Yes 35 0 Appier 0 0 Yes Yes 31 0 Shaw 0 0 Yes Yes 0 60 Washburn 0 0 Yes Yes 14 0 Vina 120 367 Yes Yes 0 0 Wendell 0 0 Yes Yes 0 77 Ordonez 98 490 Yes Yes 0 0 Valdes 0 0 Yes Yes 20 1 Blanco 62 222 Yes Yes 0 0 Lopez 0 0 Yes Yes 24 21 Wright 0 0 Yes Yes 9 0 Fabregas 13 129 Yes Yes 0 0 Ripken 95 214 Yes Yes 0 0 Heredia 0 0 Yes Yes 32 0 Seguignol 81 81 Yes Yes 0 0 Beck 0 0 Yes Yes 0 34 Feliz 1 6 Yes Yes 0 0 Crespo 23 108 Yes Yes 0 0 Clark 113 314 Yes Yes 0 0 Castro 41 183 Yes Yes 0 0 Canizaro 93 253 Yes Yes 0 0 Rincon 0 0 Yes Yes 0 35 Zaun 34 200 Yes Yes 0 0 Christensn 54 75 Yes Yes 0 0 Jones,D 0 0 Yes Yes 0 54 Macias 40 133 Yes Yes 0 0 De la Rosa 30 36 Yes Yes 0 0