Here's the sample profile. Please try to get your managerial profiles in early (opening day is April 5, 2003). 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 2003 Seattle Moshers Manager Tendencies Bunting: Neutral Hit and run: More frequent Stealing: Neutral Running: More frequent Take pitch: More frequent PH for a pitcher: More frequent PH for a non-pitcher: Neutral PH for platoon player: Most frequent PH in a blowout: Most frequent Pitching around: Neutral Intentional walk: Neutral Pickoff throws: Neutral Pitching out: Less frequent Using relievers: More frequent Using closers: Most 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 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. **************************************************************************** Pitching Chart Usage mode: Skip Rotation size: 5 Next starter: 1 Starting Rotation Maddux Sabathia Washburn Ramirez Hentgen Spot Starters Spot Pct Mopup situations Lopez Wheeler Marquis Long relievers Mercker Lopez Wheeler Parrish Setup vs LHB Shuey Wheeler Setup vs RHB Shuey Strickland Closers vs LHB Foulke Parrish Closers vs RHB Foulke Shuey Parrish ***************************************************************************** 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 2003 Seattle Moshers Depth Chart for 2003 Seattle Moshers -- vs LHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Left DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Renteria ss 2: Young 2b 3: Ordonez lf 4: Salmon rf 5: Byrnes cf 6: Wigginton 3b 7: LeCroy 1b 8: Santiago 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. With DMB 8.0e, 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 '03 season, 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 Santiago LeCroy Young Wigginton Plat Ortiz Koskie Def Mabry Koskie Util1 LeCroy 0 Ortiz 0 Hall 3 Koskie 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Renteria Ordonez Byrnes Salmon Plat Kotsay Def Renteria Harris Robinson Util1 Hall 3 Taguchi 0 Kotsay 0 Mabry 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Melhuse Melhuse Util2 Taguchi Hall Util3 Segui Util4 Koskie Util5 Kotsay .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 2003 Seattle Moshers Depth Chart for 2003 Seattle Moshers -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Right DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Renteria ss 2: Koskie 3b 3: Ordonez lf 4: Salmon rf 5: Ortiz 1b 6: Young 2b 7: Kotsay cf 8: LeCroy c 9: ----- Catcher ----- --- First Base ---- --- Second Base --- --- Third Base ---- Start LeCroy Ortiz Young Koskie Plat LeCroy Wigginton Def Santiago Mabry Koskie Util1 Santiago 30 LeCroy 0 Hall 0 Wigginton 0 Util2 Harris 0 Util3 Util4 Util5 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Renteria Ordonez Kotsay Salmon Plat Byrnes Def Harris Robinson Util1 Hall 0 Taguchi 0 Byrnes 0 Mabry 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Melhuse Melhuse Util2 Wigginton Byrnes Util3 Byrnes Segui Util4 Taguchi Util5 ************************************************************************** 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 2003 Seattle Moshers Playing Time limits for 2003 Seattle Moshers Maximum Atbats Can be PH for? Player vsLHP vsRHP vsLHP vsRHP Starts Relief App Ramirez 0 0 Yes Yes 29 0 Salmon 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Kotsay 140 342 Yes Yes 0 0 Koskie 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Maddux 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Washburn 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Sabathia 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Ordonez 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Byrnes 147 267 Yes Yes 0 0 Renteria 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Wigginton 155 418 Yes Yes 0 0 Foulke 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Santiago 100 301 Yes Yes 0 0 Mercker 0 0 Yes Yes 0 67 Lopez 0 0 Yes Yes 0 75 Ortiz 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Hall 27 115 Yes Yes 0 0 LeCroy 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Wheeler 0 0 Yes Yes 0 35 Shuey 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Marquis 0 0 Yes Yes 2 19 Cunnane 0 0 Yes Yes 0 20 Melhuse 24 53 Yes Yes 0 0 Parrish 0 0 Yes Yes 0 14 Callaway 0 0 Yes Yes 7 16 Harris 19 118 Yes Yes 0 0 Young 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Segui 50 174 Yes Yes 0 0 Taguchi 27 27 Yes Yes 0 0 Hentgen 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 Robinson 21 187 Yes Yes 0 0 Strickland 0 0 Yes Yes 0 19 Mabry 6 98 Yes Yes 0 0