how does everybody feel about how relievers are beung used.

[Rob55]

jeffpad.... give HAL lots of choices and you will get better results. Don't skimp on relief to the point there are no good options. Draft 4 relievers... a very good one ....a good one ...and 2 value cheapies. This won't completely do away with the problem....but it will make it tolerable.

[Palanion]

addendum to Rob55's response... keep your eye on the cheapies. Make sure that if they are sucking up a majority of innings that they are either quality outings or that the many bad outings are mop-up appearances. I have had guys finish with ERAs around 6.00, yet I was happy with them because they did their job (LH or RH specialist in a close game, setup role) and would get rocked when pitching extended outings....

And it often takes a few teams before you get a sense of what settings work and which ones don't. It seems to me that some override others on a single player's card, so while many options are good for HAL - too many only confuses HAL....

By the way, HAL is a reference to the evil computer in the book/movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" - and supposedly a subtle reference by Clarke (author) to IBM (which are the next letters in the alphabet from HAL).

[bkoron]

And of course, to Hal Richman, the father of Strat-O-Matic.

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