DH backups to take effect as of Thursday, 1/20

[bernieh]

Effective the night of Thursday, January 20 (morning of Fri. Jan. 21), the DH backups you set in the Lineup Depth Chart will (finally) work, the same way as all the other positions do. This is for all games under the central SOM Online site (2007-2010, ATG, 1986, 1999, Btt90s) only.

You may recall I tried and failed to deploy this added functionality back in September. This time it's been tested more robustly and already deployed for a number of live leagues successfully.

As a reminder, the reason you could never set DH backups before is because the system uses the same underlying code as the CD-ROM game, which didn't support DH backups either. And it is/was not a straightforward upgrade (to say the least). DH backups will now work as the rest of the positions do in the Lineup Depth Chart, but I haven't made it smart enough yet to choose the worst-fielding guy in the field to switch to the DH after the backup has been chosen. Hopefully I'll get to that eventually. But for what it's worth, it works as intended.

[Badjam]

:D Thanks Bernie

[gbrookes]

bernieh, thanks for this, but most of all thanks for being an interactive administrator!

Thanks for all you do. Thanks for being responsive and a GREAT communicator with the whole group!

Keep up the really superb work!

[Detroit-Tigers]

+1

[rburgh]

You can't move the DH spot in the batting order. This is the official MLB rule.

For the remainder of the game after the injury, the slot is either filled by someone from the bench or the pitcher bats. This has happened a couple of times to ML managers who use the DH spot to rest a regular - they forget in the heat of battle and send the DH into the field, then find that their pitcher must bat.

[hotcorner4444]

Great job Bernie -- thanks.

[modmark46]

:)

[WeatherNut]

Thanks, Bernie!

WN

[Wineman]

Looking forward to using it in my next league.

Thanks BH!

Jet
www.angelfire.com/games5/joethejet

[Cruiser]

Thanks, Bernie! This is great!