Substitutions

[Detroit-Tigers]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=146889&g_id=625

Detroit-Tigers AB R H RBI AVG
S.Choo RF 5 1 2 0 .295
K.Youkilis 1B 4 2 2 0 .278
C.Granderson CF 4 1 2 2 .216
D.Pedroia 2B 4 1 2 0 .273
B.Hall 3B 5 1 1 1 .214
C.Crawford LF 4 0 2 2 .318
C.Johnson DH 4 0 2 0 .333
M.Montero C 4 0 1 0 .282
J.Hardy SS 4 0 0 0 .258

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Totals 38 6 14 5 Totals 33 7 10 6

Settings:


Sim Real-life
# Name (Bats) Pos Def Bal BA OBP SLG BA OBP SLG Backup 1 Backup 2
1. Choo, S. (L) RF 3(-4)e5 4R .295 .381 .450 .300 .401 .484 Hall, B. (R)
2. Youkilis, K. (R) 3B 3e12 5L .278 .398 .505 .307 .411 .564 Johnson, C. (R)
3. Morneau, J. (L) 1B 2e2 2R .349 .452 .625 .345 .437 .618 Youkilis, K. (R)
4. Pedroia, D. (R) 2B 1e6 4R .273 .373 .478 .288 .367 .493 Hall, B. (R)
5. Crawford, C. (L) LF 1(-1)e2 4R .318 .380 .519 .307 .353 .495 Hall, B. (R)
6. Hardy, J. (R) SS 2e19 3R .258 .300 .391 .268 .320 .394 Worth, D. (R)
7. Granderson, C. (L) CF 2(+1)e3 3R .216 .303 .436 .247 .324 .468
8. Johnson, C. (R) DH - 2R .333 .376 .530 .308 .337 .481
9. Montero, M. (L) C 3(+1)e2 2R .282 .335 .471 .266 .332 .438 Martinez, V. (S)

Now the way I wanted it, was C Johnson to go to 3rd and Hall (or best hitter) to go to DH. Did I do something wrong?

[Detroit-Tigers]

Instead, HAL put Hall or 3rd and kept Chris John at DH, leading to an error and the loss.

[apolivka]

Bernie put in the backup DH spot just recently. When he did it, I recall that he said that unlike the rest of the backups, the DH backup didn't go more than "1 deep". So, an injury an another position that slotted multiple substitutions probably wouldn't work optimally.

So, this example falls in that category. The backup DH was advertised as "better than nothing, but not necessarily optimal". so there you go. It works just like he said. :)