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I'm starting play in my first 2019 league tonight. Curious if anyone has noticed much difference in their bullpen usage/management?

Yes, it's terrible. Computer will not follow my simple instructions. Very frustrating.

I've been surprised by how much it hasn't changed:

Tony Gonsolin - leads team with 34 innings pitched in team's 1st 24 games (set for Middle Man/ Set Up with slow hook)
Carlos Martinez - Has already closed 4 games in a row twice, getting the save in each one!

This is a league with super advanced injury on, so I'm expecting to get hit hard with injuries as the season progresses.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1544956

Two very different responses. I'm going to have to assume that alchamps doesn't know what he's doing.

Offense is up quite a bit this year. I got to believe that's related to the relief changes. Harder to cover everything so probably means having more depth in the bullpen.

Bullpen answer: like everything, it depends.

Starter innings? S4-S5-S6?
Middle relief? Mop up guy?
Reliever fatigues?

Basically:

R1 won’t get you to 100 innings.
R2-R5 (does not matter) won’t get you 200 innings.

So it depends on how many relief innings you’re planning to cover with how you select your fatigue levels.

Super-relief is dead, and that’s pretty much all I have noticed so far.

Unintended consequence might be that there are several teams I’m tracking for way above 600 home runs 40 games in. That’s not good.

J-Pav wrote:Unintended consequence might be that there are several teams I’m tracking for way above 600 home runs 40 games in. That’s not good.

300 used to be exceptional.

STEVE F wrote:Two very different responses. I'm going to have to assume that alchamps doesn't know what he's doing.

We're in the mid/late stages of a 24 team draft using the '19 unleashed set and the sim will be run with pretty strict usage limits. As a result, it will be like little league...everybody plays! It will be interesting to see what kind of stats we get.

Just browsing around, last year you could probably expect 2000-2500 total league home runs. That might now be 3500-4000 in 2019 leagues, if my early teams continue to extrapolate out. They may not if we get a governor mechanism at work, or some other HAL demon-ware.

My generic three stud *SP team is on track for 300, and I wasn’t even thinking about power on that team.

So there’s some mitigation in that home runs are easier for everybody, but we may be looking at softball games in the little league park, where everyone starts playing in Citizens because AT&T isn’t enough of a counterweight anymore.

Averaging four homers a game now...?

J-Pav, do you have any idea what would explain the increase in HR's? HR's were up last year in real MLB? Fewer roles for RP's so the cheap guys are getting bombed?

Glen Head is vacant except for one warehouse guy. Maybe someone forgot to hit a switch on the way out? Can you post links to leagues or teams where this wackiness is happening?