Stealing

[franky35]

In the 1969 game, what is the signficance of a *? I know it indicates that a player needs to be held (or he automatically gets a lead). I'm told that it lowers fielder's ratings by 1, and it increases hit-n-run by a grade. Does it have any effect on the hitter's card?

I will sometimes put a good stealer in front of a double-play threat and check "steal more" to reduce the double play threat, although I think that HAL doesn't buy into this strategy and will attempt a steal most (i.e., with lowest % success) with 2 outs. Anybody else notice this?

[Ninersphan]

[quote:51ce051a87]Does it have any effect on the hitter's card? [/quote:51ce051a87]

Yes here's the rule, right from the rule book:

[i:51ce051a87]23.83 When an infielder is responsible for holding a runner and a gb()X is hit to him, add 1 to that fielder's range rating. Example: With a runner held at first and a lefthanded hitter at the plate, a shortstop rated 2e20 becomes 3e20. The maximum range rating is 5.

23.84 Do not award a SINGLE** on a "gb()+" while runners are being held on base. Instead, when a gb()X to an infielder responsible for holding the runner results in a symbol followed by a "#", change that result to "SI2" (single, with all runners advancing two bases).[/i:51ce051a87]


Go here:

[url]http://www.rsbl.org/somrules.htm[/url]

for all the Strat-O rules, but not the charts.

[1crazycanuk]

Dave and Cummings...you both make good points. Lately I've just been putting stealing on conservative. Garabito and ARod have some SBs for me but that's about it.