a "how do i..." question.

so i am playing in a 24 team theme league (db/pre-war set) and i have the browns.

how do i set to maximize 4 starters (all the innings) and no bullpen (as few innings as possible)?

i have never gone without a bullpen of some sort. thanks.

In team strategy - set Closer usage to Regular, Relief usage to Conservative

in Pitcher Pref - set your 4 SP* to Don't Relieve before FO, quick hook on all relievers, and don't assign any bullpen roles.

in Set Your Default Rotation list your 4 SP* in the 1st 4 slots and place your cheap SP in the last slot (he would only be used if 1 of the SP* get injured).

This will maximize your SP* innings, BUT since it's a NO DH league - HAL will override your settings to bring in a PH when appropriate

i figured as much, but thanks a ton. i am hoping to override HAL ph as much as possible.

Having a poor hitting bench might help. If Hal sees Joe Sewell on the bench then he will almost always pinch hit for a top hitting pitcher but Hal might let the 4w hitting pitcher hit if Ray Oyler quality is available.

You can also set most/all your relievers to don't relieve before 7th or 8th inning, quick hook & max 1-2 innings, and if they are very slanted avoid their weak side. If there is 1 decent reliever, just use these settings for all the others (and you may be able to keep most of them to maybe 20 innings a season in mostly blowouts).

I think it is very difficult to do this without a DH. I have a team now with 3 10mil+ SP in an 80 mil league, and even though I have those 3 set to not relieve before F6, HAL keeps pinch hitting for them in the 7th and 8th even when I have a small lead of a couple runs. Now I do have some bullpen settings set, so perhaps that is why, but I cant seem to get the bullpen tinkering right even after 150 games.

there will be zero usable RPer's on this team. i am limited by the roster options (only caster is priced higher than 1 mil and he is basically useless as well). this is the list of RPer's available to my team.

Mitchell, Roy (1911) R R5 4 8 0 133.1 134 57 45 40 4 -1 0 3 3WR 3.85 1.34 2R .94M
George, Lefty (1911) L R5 4 9 0 116.1 136 54 51 23 3 -1 2 0 1WL 4.18 1.61 1R .89M
Koob, Ernie (1917) L R5 6 14 1 133.2 139 58 57 47 1 -2 0 8 1WL 3.90 1.47 1L .74M
Burwell, Bill (1920) R R5 6 4 4 113.1 133 46 42 30 5 -2 3 1 2WL 3.65 1.54 E .69M
Caster, George (1941) R R5 3 7 3 104.1 105 58 37 36 12 -4 0 0 1WR 5.00 1.36 1R 1.06M
Zoldak, Sam (1945) L R3 3 2 0 70.0 74 26 18 19 3 -3 6 3 1WL 3.36 1.32 2L .85M
Trotter, Bill (1940) R R2 7 6 2 98.0 117 41 31 29 5 0 0 2 1WR 3.77 1.51 E .73M
Knott, Jack (1934) R R4 10 3 4 138.0 149 76 67 56 17 -1 0 7 1WR 4.96 1.57 3R .64M

Here is the team I mentioned. You will notice that the most expensive guy in the pen is Dipino at 1 million, and yet the pen has racked up 130 IP.

But as I said, I do have bullpen roles set every night, so even though I have Maddux, Johnson and Greinke set to pitch through fatigue, HAL does have options.

http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1443378