Bullpen Question

[pstar519]

What does the bullpen relief setting (normal, conservative, aggressive) relate to?

At first, I took it to mean how quickly your bullpen is brought into games--if you set it as "aggressive," for example, your relievers would pitch more innings. In the manager strategy section, it even explicitly states that the "relief usage" is "how much your bullpen is called in to help."

According to a lot of the posts I've read on this, however, I get the impression that this setting refers to how quickly HAL will cycle through your relievers. For example, HAL might use 1 reliever to face 8 batters if the setting was "conservative" but would use maybe 2 or 3 pitchers for the same amount of batters if it was "aggressive."

So which of these two interpretations is correct?

[1crazycanuk]

I'm not sure but I think the latter is correct.

[BRADSANDBOTHE]

I thought the same thing and someone pointed out the opposite.
Your second view seems to be the way Hal does it. I was conservative so as to keep my starters in longer, but that doesn't seem to be the case so I guess the agressive means you will have more of a chance using (for Example) a 9L against just one Lefty if a Righty is on Deck.

I would be interested to hear some more from some more advanced players to be sure though.

[pstar519]

I, too, think the second view seems to be the way HAL does it, and now that I think about it, I guess it does make sense. After all, you have the option of setting each starter as slow hook, quick hook, or neither, so that would seem to take care of how quickly the bullpen is [i:fe66aab563]brought into[/i:fe66aab563] a game.

But on the other hand, you can set the "hook" on relievers the same way, so that would seem to take care of how quickly HAL [i:fe66aab563]goes through[/i:fe66aab563] the bullpen.

Does anyone have much experience in this? I havn't played much online, so I can't draw any conclusions yet based on my own experiences.