Offense or Defence (See Bernie Fix This!!!!!)

[yak1407]

Danielz in another message on this board wants Bernie to fix the game so that HAL makes injury substitution based on defence, not offence.
Bernie replies that he is working on fixing it, but what I'd like to know before it gets fixed is the rationale behind what HAL does now. Maybe there is a logic there that escapes us.
I suspect if the game were fixed we'd get the other message. Why did HAL bring in the weak hitting fielder and leave a bat on the bench?
In fact, there are some strong opinions on this board that D doesn't matter as much as offence. After all, a guy gets four or five at bats in a game and may only get one or two fielding changes?
I suppose the best solution might be to have a box in the manager strategy which lets you decide if you want to injury substitute on the basis of D or offense.
I'm not sure if I want it to be just D.

[sphilipp8]

I think we're going to get the best of both worlds. According to Bernie's blog it looks like you'll be able to set a depth chart. So you choose who replaces an injured player.

[kptnfmrs]

Apparently, HAL is pretty shallow when it comes to injury substitutions.
My secondbaseman was injured and HAL substituted Scott Bradley at 2B and left Jim Morrison at 3B. If I'm not mistaken, Bradley (not "qualified" at 2B) would come in with a range of 5 and max e rating). A conscious person would bring Bradley in at 3rd and move Morrison to second, but HAL's vision doesn't seem to extend that far.

When I got my first SOM board game back in 1970 - before the days of super-duper advanced lefty-righty stuff, the booklet had remarks about favoring offense over defense. So 35 years later it shouldn't come as a surprise that HAL is going to favor offense when it comes to substitutions.

A defensive depth chart sounds intriguing.