Pitcher settings ignored

[Mythical Birds]

I have a starting pitcher set for quick hook, 6 inning maximum and don't face right handers. Well he pitches into the 7th and faces a right hander (Henderson) right out of the gate. Two lefties followed but this is still contrary to two (if not three) of the pitcher settings. Are these things meaningless?

[YountFan]

The 6/7 max seems to be flawless, but then I don't read the box scrore super close, but from what I have seem they work 100% (but now I guess 95%) of the time. HAL does reserve the right to mess with you and your team as he see fit (it is in the small print of your SOM contract). It could be based on you pen not being rested and stuff that onones except HAL knows how to quantify.

Can you look at his last few starts and see how the 6 max workied out in the past? I know the other setting may confilct and cause HAL and upset stomach. Consider 6 IP max, quick hook only, and skip thr avoid. HAL don;t now work well with too much information. He tries to be real smart about it and f's it up. The key to HAL is keep it simple

[voovits]

I think HAL ignores the avoid L/R setting for starters anyway. Otherwise you'd have starters pitching to only a few batters a game.
I too have HAL pitch a guy longer than the max number of innings I give him, but it is quite rare.

[gutter huggers]

I seen Hal do this a few times without too much damage. I just wonder, if Hal is looking at the state of the bullpen, over the last few starts. There seems to be some rest factor involved.

On the other hand, I wish Hal would ignore my settings on the starter, once in a while. Twice, I picked up a late season starter, and on thier first outing, they had a no-hitter going after 7 IP, and were pulled. I wish Hal had a default, which would keep a pitcher in, when he has a no-hitter going. I think the first time it happened, I had a 8-0 lead.

Remember, Hal did try to kill Dave, in the movie "2001." I don't think Hal likes any of us.