***************************************************************************** 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 1997 Seattle Moshers Manager Tendencies Bunting: Neutral Hit and run: Neutral Stealing: More frequent 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: Less 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: Skip Rotation size: 5 Next starter: 1 Starting Rotation Maddux Appier Cone Tewksbury Brocail Spot Starters Reyes Wright Spot Pct 10 50 Mopup situations Corsi Beck Telford McElroy Long relievers Corsi Beck McElroy Telford Timlin Setup vs LHB McElroy Telford Setup vs RHB Telford Timlin McElroy Beck Closers vs LHB Beck McElroy Telford Timlin Closers vs RHB Timlin Telford McElroy Beck Manager Profile for 1997 Seattle Moshers ***************************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************************** Depth Chart for 1997 Seattle Moshers -- vs LHP Usage: Game by game Starting Lineup 1: DeShields 2b 2: Henderson rf 3: Belle lf 4: Lankford cf 5: Santiago c 6: Carter 1b 7: Bell 3b 8: Easley 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 7.0b, 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 '97 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 Santiago Carter DeShields Bell Easley Plat Hoiles Snow DeShields Bell Easley Def Santiago Snow Hansen Bell Bell Util1 Hoiles 0 Hoiles 14 Hansen 5 Hocking 8 Hocking 15 Util2 Snow 0 Util3 Util4 Util5 Left Field Center Field Right Field Desig. Hitter Start Belle Lankford Henderson Plat Merced Def Ordonez Kotsay Merced Util1 Ordonez 0 Henderson 14 Carter 14 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 PH vs LHP PH vs RHP Start Plat Def Util1 Hansen Fielder Util2 Hoiles Ordonez Util3 Ordonez Hoiles Util4 Hansen Util5 Vidro Manager Profile for 1997 Seattle Moshers Depth Chart for 1997 Seattle Moshers -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Starting Lineup 1: DeShields 2b 2: Bell 3b 3: Lankford cf 4: Belle lf 5: Snow 1b 6: Easley ss 7: Merced rf 8: Hoiles c 9: Catcher First Base Second Base Third Base Shortstop Start Hoiles Snow DeShields Bell Easley Plat Santiago Carter DeShields Def Santiago Snow Hansen Bell Bell Util1 Santiago 0 Carter 0 Hansen 5 Vidro 0 Hocking 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Left Field Center Field Right Field Desig. Hitter Start Belle Lankford Merced Plat Henderson Def Ordonez Kotsay Merced Util1 Henderson 0 Henderson 14 Henderson 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 PH vs LHP PH vs RHP Start Plat Def Util1 Hansen Fielder Util2 Carter Ordonez Util3 Ordonez Hansen Util4 Santiago Vidro Util5 Henderson ************************************************************************** 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 Frank Thomas 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. ********************************************************************** Playing Time Limits for 1997 Seattle Moshers Maximum Atbats Can be PH for? Batter vsLHP vsRHP vsLHP vsRHP Belle 122 512 Yes Yes Lankford 136 329 Yes Yes Henderson 77 326 Yes Yes Santiago 93 248 Yes Yes Bell 173 400 Yes Yes Snow 133 398 Yes Yes DeShields 118 454 Yes Yes Hoiles 94 226 Yes Yes Merced 121 247 Yes Yes Ordonez 17 52 Yes Yes Hansen 42 52 Yes Yes Easley 143 384 Yes Yes Kotsay 1 51 Yes Yes Carter 180 432 Yes Yes Vidro 47 122 Yes Yes Hocking 84 169 Yes Yes Casey 2 8 Yes Yes Velarde 0 0 Yes Yes Fielder 90 271 Yes Yes Pitcher Starts Relief App Appier 34 0 Cone 29 0 Wright 16 0 Maddux 33 0 Beck 0 73 Timlin 0 64 Tewksbury 26 0 Telford 0 65 McElroy 0 61 Brocail 4 57 Reyes 5 9 Suppan 22 1 Corsi 0 52 Yan 2 1