Garcia's Blog 5/28/15- Do Not Relieve Before/May Lottery
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 3:36 pmHey guys,
This past week we've gotten alot of questions that have to do with the 'Do Not Relieve Before' setting. For those of you who do not know what this is; this setting will enable you to indicate that you do not want the computer manager to remove your pitcher until they have at least reached the specified fatigue rating and can be found under "Pitcher Preferences" page.
Fatigue ratings are confusing in themselves. A pitchers fatigue rating can go from F0 to F9 where F9 is rested and F0 means he has nothing left. Normally pitchers start their appearance as F9 and maintain that level until they approach or exceed their expected pitch count. It is possible that a pitcher may start to fatigue well before or well after the suggested number of pitches for him. For instance, if he is getting hit extremely hard early, he may fatigue earlier than expected. Conversely, if he is pitching a gem he might be able to go many more pitches before he starts to fatigue. As a pitcher fatigues the worse he starts to pitch as more and more readings can turn into singles and extra base hits. You can view the pitcher's fatigue at the end of every at-bat by looking at the last column on the play-by-play.
Now the "Do Not Relieve Before" setting means the computer manager will try to keep the pitcher in the game regardless of how he performs until he reaches the designated rating. However it seems many users are using this setting on too many pitchers and these players are staying in the game longer than they would ordinarily like. Or perhaps your closer is not getting into a game when he should because the current pitcher still has not reached his fatigue setting. Unless you have a pitcher that you feel would still be better than your bullpen when pitching tired I would recommend not using this setting. That means this should really only be used for the elite pitchers as they are most likely the only pitchers better than the others on your roster.
Note that there are ways that he may still leave the game before his designated fatigue level, including if he's set to Avoid Lefties or Avoid Righties, if the situation calls for another pitcher you've assigned to a matching Super Hal Bullpen Role, or if the computer manager decides to pinch-hit for him.
Today we also ran our May Lottery. Five more users were given a free credit just for playing the game! The winners are shown below:
jarrett.temple
McMAC
pczar
domer13
Ninersphan
Congrats to the winners above!
One additional note for this week -- as we've talked about custom leagues over the past few weeks a few people have written in about a minimum salary necessary for drafting for theme leagues. There is no minimum salary. If you were planning a league where only players under a certain salary threshold were available, you would be able to do so without a problem.
That's all I have for this week. If you have any questions, as always please write in to onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com. Talk to everyone next Thursday!
-John
This past week we've gotten alot of questions that have to do with the 'Do Not Relieve Before' setting. For those of you who do not know what this is; this setting will enable you to indicate that you do not want the computer manager to remove your pitcher until they have at least reached the specified fatigue rating and can be found under "Pitcher Preferences" page.
Fatigue ratings are confusing in themselves. A pitchers fatigue rating can go from F0 to F9 where F9 is rested and F0 means he has nothing left. Normally pitchers start their appearance as F9 and maintain that level until they approach or exceed their expected pitch count. It is possible that a pitcher may start to fatigue well before or well after the suggested number of pitches for him. For instance, if he is getting hit extremely hard early, he may fatigue earlier than expected. Conversely, if he is pitching a gem he might be able to go many more pitches before he starts to fatigue. As a pitcher fatigues the worse he starts to pitch as more and more readings can turn into singles and extra base hits. You can view the pitcher's fatigue at the end of every at-bat by looking at the last column on the play-by-play.
Now the "Do Not Relieve Before" setting means the computer manager will try to keep the pitcher in the game regardless of how he performs until he reaches the designated rating. However it seems many users are using this setting on too many pitchers and these players are staying in the game longer than they would ordinarily like. Or perhaps your closer is not getting into a game when he should because the current pitcher still has not reached his fatigue setting. Unless you have a pitcher that you feel would still be better than your bullpen when pitching tired I would recommend not using this setting. That means this should really only be used for the elite pitchers as they are most likely the only pitchers better than the others on your roster.
Note that there are ways that he may still leave the game before his designated fatigue level, including if he's set to Avoid Lefties or Avoid Righties, if the situation calls for another pitcher you've assigned to a matching Super Hal Bullpen Role, or if the computer manager decides to pinch-hit for him.
Today we also ran our May Lottery. Five more users were given a free credit just for playing the game! The winners are shown below:
jarrett.temple
McMAC
pczar
domer13
Ninersphan
Congrats to the winners above!
One additional note for this week -- as we've talked about custom leagues over the past few weeks a few people have written in about a minimum salary necessary for drafting for theme leagues. There is no minimum salary. If you were planning a league where only players under a certain salary threshold were available, you would be able to do so without a problem.
That's all I have for this week. If you have any questions, as always please write in to onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com. Talk to everyone next Thursday!
-John