Lineup change - HAL

I had my leadoff hitter hurt for 6 games but he had a good sub which I had listed as backup, no changes in the order. Looking at the box scores HAL decided to drop my leadoff replacement to 8th, moving everyone up in the order... that's not right IMO.

JT

the engine rearranges the order if one of the top 5 guys in the lineup is hurt, but leaves it alone for the bottom 4 -- this is an approximation, not a hard rule, but it's the right basic idea for what happens -- so if a guy in the upper half is hurt, you have to consider rearranging the line-up yourself if you're between series

I think this has been officially explained by either Bernie in the old days or Garcia more recently

I had my leadoff hitter hurt for 6 games but he had a good sub which I had listed as backup, no changes in the order. Looking at the box scores HAL decided to drop my leadoff replacement to 8th, moving everyone up in the order... that's not right IMO.

JT

JT, when you have an injury to a hitter in your starting lineup, HAL uses your sub and decides what he thinks the best lineup is. It's not a straight replacement into the open spot in the starting lineup.

He's doing a by the numbers evaluation of card values, park factors, and opposing SP.

If SOM had a programmer on staff they could give us an option to do a straight sub or a full lineup reset when there is an injury in the starting lineup.

the engine rearranges the order if one of the top 5 guys in the lineup is hurt, but leaves it alone for the bottom 4 -- this is an approximation, not a hard rule, but it's the right basic idea for what happens -- so if a guy in the upper half is hurt, you have to consider rearranging the line-up yourself if you're between series

I think this has been officially explained by either Bernie in the old days or Garcia more recently

Never knew that! Thanks Clowntime!

found it -- 1/29/15 Garcia post:

" In any of the other non-mystery card player sets the following is used to determine the lineup: When an injury occurs to the bottom part of the order, it does not totally rearrange it. The new player just slots in where the computer manager felt he belonged. However when an injury occurs to the top half of the order, it needs to rearrange in order to avoid putting poor backups at the top of the order. In this case the computer manager runs through a number of different lineup options and internally selects the one it calculates to be the most productive, based on card value and handedness matchup with the pitcher. The difference in runs scored is probably minute between the various lineups, but the computer goes with the one it selects it has the most. "