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Only as much as you would like to give it. You can set your lineups and rotation and pretty much leave the team alone to run itself if you like. I don't think you will find success in this manner however but you could still find enjoyment.

The more involved you become the more your winning pct. will go up.

From 20 minutes a week to two hours a day.

[quote:c04fd987a2]How much of a time commitment is strat-o-matic? [/quote:c04fd987a2]

Only those who should be committed make the the true commitment! :roll:

if ya have to ask, you don't have the time!!! :shock: :wink:

Time..... time........ I am glad I am self-employed or I would have to send HAL a monthly bill or all the time I spend. :wink:

yeah, but it took 6 of us, 6 hours a week for two years, to play the entire 1973 season using three board games.
Ah, those were the days.....technology ho!!

I would think if your running 1 or 2 teams , maybe 20 minutes a day . Set your setting and pitching , check for injuries and their replacements and your set to go . Getting your team the way you want it is the thing that will take any time ( before draft filling out draft card then waivers and the mini frenzy after waivers). After the initial time spent on assembling your team it will / can run pretty much on it's own .

That's twenty minutes a day of [i:aa7cd09d26]actual action[/i:aa7cd09d26]...then there's the hours lying awake trying to figure out whether to dump Ryan Howard or whether to take a chance on Sean Estes or whether Julio Lugo will kill you at SS or whether you can bat Berkman third with all those DPs...and then there's the nights tossing and turning restlessly until popping out of bed at three a.m. to check the waiver wire and fiddle with lineups...and of course there's the hours upon hours (less so now) spent pouring over the cards and adding up figures to compare against other cards...

and that's not counting the months spent trying figure out what the hell HAL is doing to your life...

other than that, no time at all...

if I worried half as much about work I'd be a millionaire by now...

this game is addictive...the good news is it forced me to give up television...

at least I haven't had any SOM dreams...that would be a bad sign...

helium

I wondered if anyone has a sense of whether you really improve spending more time. I get the sense that if I have a lot of time and start looking at manager's strategy resets for a 3-game series I can improve slightly ( i.e. stealing more or less, etc).

Other than that I have found that a little more time sometimes is counter-productive.

I spend the most time in team design and drafting. Then I go with pitching match-ups, because I don't use a four man rotation usually. So I find I spend less time now than last year. I don't want to quit but the game is very frustrating. More time? Maybe.