Let HAL do lineup?

[voovits]

What were the actual lineups he used?

That's much more revealing than the choice of players he used.

[voovits]

My guess would be probably Melvin 88 and Santiago 99.

Melvin 88 has the most HR power of all his cards and Santiago 99 is his worst. The fact that he has W power vrs righties I'd bet is HALs justification in using Melvin.

Honestly, HAL started Melvin over Santiago on my team, I'd drop Santiago.

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Hamilton is not that great of a player. I could definitely see Goodwin 95 or 98 batting ahead of Hamilton. Especially Goodwin 98.

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I can't see Pags starting vrs lefties over Ventura, but Pags 87 has such a high HR percentage that I could easily see him starting at 3B. Especially if Ventura is on 93 or 98.


I just re-read and say you only faced righties. I doesn't really change much of what I said, but you could learn more if you see a lefty lineup.

Lets see if my predictions hold true.
Pagliarulo 87
Ventura 93 or 98. I'll guess 98
Goodwin 95 or 98. I'll guess 98
Hamilton: No Guess.
Melvin 88
Santiago 99

Remember what I said about decisions to start not necessarily making sense though, so these guesses could be way off base.

Post a link to your team, I'll be curious to see how accurate my guesses were.

[ROBERTLATORRE]

[quote:7c677e6a88="Voovits"]My guess would be probably Melvin 88 and Santiago 99.

Melvin 88 has the most HR power of all his cards and Santiago 99 is his worst. The fact that he has W power vrs righties I'd bet is HALs justification in using Melvin.

Honestly, HAL started Melvin over Santiago on my team, I'd drop Santiago.
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I'm with Voovits completely, go fishing for another catcher using Santiago's salary.

[The Conndor]

[quote:ed44e77366="Voovits"]My guess would be probably Melvin 88 and Santiago 99.

Melvin 88 has the most HR power of all his cards and Santiago 99 is his worst. The fact that he has W power vrs righties I'd bet is HALs justification in using Melvin.

Honestly, HAL started Melvin over Santiago on my team, I'd drop Santiago.

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Hamilton is not that great of a player. I could definitely see Goodwin 95 or 98 batting ahead of Hamilton. Especially Goodwin 98.

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I can't see Pags starting vrs lefties over Ventura, but Pags 87 has such a high HR percentage that I could easily see him starting at 3B. Especially if Ventura is on 93 or 98.


I just re-read and say you only faced righties. I doesn't really change much of what I said, but you could learn more if you see a lefty lineup.

Lets see if my predictions hold true.
Pagliarulo 87
Ventura 93 or 98. I'll guess 98
Goodwin 95 or 98. I'll guess 98
Hamilton: No Guess.
Melvin 88
Santiago 99

Remember what I said about decisions to start not necessarily making sense though, so these guesses could be way off base.

Post a link to your team, I'll be curious to see how accurate my guesses were.[/quote:ed44e77366]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team.html

I dropped Hamilton today before I even read this post, along with Bichette, replace by O'Leary and Davis (Giles now in CF)

INJ reveal on Ventura... it's his 99 card, meaning HAL benched him for 3 games on his best card. I'm keeping a wary eye on Santiago, but the Ventura benching does not give me great confidence in this method, to say the least. I will try to look up and post the lineups HAL used later today.

Thank you both very much for your responses, voovits and latorrer

[Ragnarokpc]

I honestly don't know how these guys do it . . . but do think HAL knows a thing or two and has some decent advice. Usually guys low in the batting order are guys I end up dropping later with poor cards.

[Outta Leftfield]

I do let HAL manage my bullpen early on in the mystery card games, and I find that it's helpful in that the players HAL tends to use most often, and in critical situations are generally (not always) in good years. However, HAL seems to get fixated on certain RPs, so that the fact that an RP isn't used much doesn't necessarily mean he's in a bad year.

However, I've never let HAL pick a lineup for me, since my assumption has always been that this is much too complicated a task for HAL to perform in an effective way.

Still, I'm going to re-read and consider the suggestions on this thread.

[The Senators]

Pinch hitting for star players is a big tip-off. Not only who is being pinch hit for but who is selected to do the pinch-hitting. As an aside here, HAL must have been programmed by a relative of Ray Corbin's because good year or not, he is called on for over 150 innings of relief every time I have had him on my team for a full season, no matter what boxes I click. Bullpen innings eater.... :?

[Jimmy_C]

I left some key openings in my "vs. righty" lineup the other night. Hal put Huskey in RF instead of Salmon. I know Salmon has his worst card ('99) but it is still .862 OPS. Plus he is "E" in that year. Huskey's best OPS card is .830 and all his cards lean left. Salmon is a better defensive player in RF also. Yet...Hal started Huskey against a righty over Salmon.

I think Hal uses the Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Moe method way too often for lineup selection...

[voovits]

Huskey 97 is easily justifiable for having started over Salmon 99.
I would also make a case for Huskey 99. Even though Huskey 99 has a lower on base, his HR rate is close to the same, and Salmon has mostly walks vrs righties while Huskey has mostly hits.

[The Conndor]

[quote:b770e364eb="Outta Leftfield"]I do let HAL manage my bullpen early on in the mystery card games, and I find that it's helpful in that the players HAL tends to use most often, and in critical situations are generally (not always) in good years. However, HAL seems to get fixated on certain RPs, so that the fact that an RP isn't used much doesn't necessarily mean he's in a bad year.

However, I've never let HAL pick a lineup for me, since my assumption has always been that this is much too complicated a task for HAL to perform in an effective way.

Still, I'm going to re-read and consider the suggestions on this thread.[/quote:b770e364eb]

I guess I should have qualified my earlier HAL-bashing... I also always let HAL manage my bullpen early, and I find HAL's bullpen choices very helpful for the 1st week or 2 of mystery card games.

To add to Outta LF's point, my theory is that HAL uses RP's more frequently the less extreme their card is. In other words, all things being equal, if there are 2 otherwise identical relievers, but one is a 1R and one is a 5R, HAL tends to use the 1R guy more often, and for longer stretches. Again, I have no concrete evidence for this, just a theory based on my own observations.

Regardless of whether or not I am right, I only use HAL as a bullpen guide, not a definitive answer on whether or not a guy is on a good year. And after this recent experience of mine, I will likely not ever let HAL pick my lineup again.