how does HAL handle a set-up RP?

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hello:

How does HAL handle a "set-up" reliever?...is this the first guy out of the bullpen in a non-mop-up situation, or does HAL really wait until the 6th or 7th inning (with the lead) to use the guy?...

I'm looking to maixmize the IP for 2004 Lidge. Right now he's set as a Super Reliever (set-up and close both ways), but I'm wondering if I pick up Baez to close, and leave Lidge as set-up. will he also get the early innings...or just the official "set-up" innings?

Or would i be better served leaving "set-up" blank?...will that guarantee Lidge more innings if he's free'd up?...or will that just "free up" HAL to make more crazy decisions?...

any input on this would be appreciated...

thanks in advance...

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89 readers and no replys...dang!

[Ninersphan]

Well, that's cause none of us really know [i:8042d93c2f][b:8042d93c2f]how[/b:8042d93c2f][/i:8042d93c2f] HAL thinks, That's kinda half the fun. :wink:

[chasenally]

He will bring him in in the inning you set him up for. Leave him in against a LHB even if you have a LHP ready to go. Not bring him in at all or bring in one of your worst pitchers in your pen. He may even do it all as you set it up to be but won't bring him in if he has been in 3 straight games before that. He might bring him in to set up and close. Kinda like what the ninerspan said. That is what makes it fun. :) The best way to get the most innings from what I have read is to use as set up and close. There is a post in here somewhere that tells you how to get the most innings out of one player and it is recent. This page or #2 i think. SuperDuper reliever or something like that.

[chasenally]

Last post tells how he got it done.

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I've done the super reliever thing many times, and it works great. But I'm assuming "set-up" and "closer" roles means that you are tied or have the lead and then that pitcher goes in. But I want my guy (2004 Lidge in this case), to ALSO enter the game when I'm behind by a run or two (since my teams are slugger-heavy). So I was just thinking how to maximize his innings pitched overall, and not just when I have the lead in a set-up or save situation.

Yes, HAL is clinically insane. It may give you comfort to know that the same artificial intelligence also controls our nuclear weapons. What if HAL brings in a nuke at the wrong time? I wonder what the "manager settings" are for nuclear war?

Sorry. Completely unrelated. That's what I get for watching "Dr. Strangelove" again last night.

Thanks for the input. The mystery continues.