Any idea how to prevent this?

[ths92110]

My power slob team is ahead 3-0 on the road at the Oakland Coliseum. The only defensive substitution I have set is for McAuliffe (2b-2 e16) to replace Harmon (2b-3 e9) at 2nd. In the bottom of the 8th HAL brings in McAuliffe, then on his own volition sends Dick Allen from 3b to 1b (3b-4 e38; 1b-4 e14), Don Buford from LF to 3b (lf-3(0) e4; 3b-4 e23), and Otto Velez from 1b to LF (1b-4 e24; lf-4(+1) e9). Yes, he has improved the defense at the corners. But in my opinion this not justified given the loss in LF. Can anyone tell me how to stop this? There are several small ball parks in my league and I'd like to prevent it from happening again. Or is HAL right, and his fielding arrangement statistically better?????

Here's the link:

[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/70s/league/boxscore.html?group_id=14641&g_id=152[/url]

Thanks!

[franky35]

HAL's substitutions will result in 20 fewer errors over the season vs. going from a 3 to a 4 in LF. I think that is very close to even. Personally, I'd go with HALs configuration. But either way, I'd prefer to have better D at 3rd. Pick up Schmidt if he's available - he's a great fielder and hits lefties pretty well too.

[ths92110]

Thanks for the response Franky. Which of course leads to another question: Does a player's "e" rating work out to the number of projected errors he will have in a season? And thus the collective "e" rating of the team improved by 20 with HAL's moves?

[coyote303]

[quote:8e86d9f3de="ths92110"]Thanks for the response Franky. Which of course leads to another question: Does a player's "e" rating work out to the number of projected errors he will have in a season? And thus the collective "e" rating of the team improved by 20 with HAL's moves?[/quote:8e86d9f3de]

The e rating is the approximate number of errors you can expect if a player played every inning of every game in the field.

HAL's logic often works out pretty well. But he will use that logic as soon as he makes a requested defensive sub, and I don't think you can stop it.

Coyote