**************************************************************************** PITCHING: You may have three different modes of "Usage" for pitching: Strict, Time, or Skip. Strict will just play your pitchers in the order that you list them under starters. Skip is like Strict, except that if you have a rest day then it will play your 1st starter earlier. Time proportionally doles out the starts to all of your starters on the roster based upon how many real life starts they have (it effectively chucks your starting rotation out the window). You must list a minimum of 4 starters, and even then, it's probably a better idea to go with 5 to prevent early burnout. If you use "Strict" or "Skip" (but *NOT* "Time"), you may use spot starters. Spot starters will start a certain percentage of the time (specified by you) in place of the regular starter. Since the "Time" usage doesn't really use the starting pitching profile, using spot starters won't help. Also note, you are limited to one spot starter per "regular" starter, and you must specify a percentage you wish to spot start them (otherwise, it's going to be 0%, and it's just as if you never specified a starter in the first place). People who have a durability rating for starters may start. People who have a durability rating for relievers may relieve. People who have durability ratings for both may do both. Note: In the regular season, players of any IP may be mentioned in the profile. There is no minimum IP for the regular season (but there is the 110% usage rule). For relievers, you should specify your closers vs left or right, setup men vs left or right, and your long & mopup starters. You may list up to 5 people for each of these spots, and you put players in multiple slots (although you can't list them twice in the same spot). Since we don't have minimum IP or batters faced requirements for mention in the profile during the regular season (other than the minimum 75 batters faced to be on the active roster), this could potentially lead to teams burning out large numbers of their players early who didn't have many IP to begin with. I ask that you try to pace your players so that this doesn't happen. **************************************************************************** Manager Profile for 2009 Albuquerque Maul Pitching Chart Usage mode: Strict Rotation size: 5 Next starter: 1 Rotation Spot starters Pct --------------- --------------- --- 1: Weaver,Jer 2: Oswalt 3: Lohse Zimmermann 45 4: Johnson,Ra Smoltz 50 5: Hampton Wang 40 6: 7: Mopup Long relief Setup vsLHB Setup vsRHB Closer vsLHB Closer vsRHB --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- 1: Benson Ortiz,R Crain Hanrahan Lidge Lidge 2: Rincon Hanrahan Gregg Crain Hanrahan 3: Ryan,BJ Hanrahan Gregg 4: 5: 6: 7: .................................................................................................... ***************************************************************************** Batting lineups: You will need to submit lineups for both LHP & RHP. Since this a non-DH league, the 9th batting slot will be reserved for the pitcher. ***************************************************************************** Manager Profile for 2009 Albuquerque Maul Depth Chart for 2009 Albuquerque Maul -- vs LHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Left DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Fowler lf 2: Bonifacio ss 3: Rios rf 4: Sizemore cf 5: Kotchman 1b 6: Mora 3b 7: Getz 2b 8: Saltalamacchia c 9: ************************************************************************* DEPTH CHART: For the depth chart, need to have at least 1 utility player for every position. You may also mention platoon players (those that come in when a reliever of the opposite handedness does) and defensive players (those that come in the late innings of close games). The way you can distribute playing time is by letting the utility players start a certain %age of the games. You can monitor this by either of two ways: Trackstarts or game by game. Track starts looks at the season as a whole, and tries to distribute playing time so that at the end of the season the playing time has been distributed %age-wise according to the diagram. Game by game randomly determines who starts the games without regards to past performances. Here a utility player with a 20% start rate has a 20% chance of starting that game. You can also have up to 5 pinch hitters for each side. There are pinch hitters for LHP and pinch hitters for RHP for each side of the depth chart. The DMB manual doesn't really explain why they have these redundant PH profiles, but I'd recommend just putting the same guys as PH vs RHP on both sides, and do the same for PH vs LHP. There is no minimum PA that you need to be mentioned in the profile (besides the 35 PA minimum to be on the active roster). But remember that there is a 110% total plate apparance limit, and a 200% plate apperance limit for each side. Try not to burn people out early. ************************************************************************** ----- Catcher ----- --- First Base ---- --- Second Base --- --- Third Base ---- Start Saltalamacchia Kotchman Getz Mora Plat Def Util1 Rodriguez,I 0 Giambi 0 Loretta 25 Loretta 10 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Bonifacio Fowler Sizemore Rios Plat Def Util1 Reyes,JB 0 Guillen,J 10 Fowler 20 Giles 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Giles Giles Util2 Guillen,J Guillen,J Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 2009 Albuquerque Maul Depth Chart for 2009 Albuquerque Maul -- vs RHP Usage: Game by game Versus: Right DH: No Starting Lineup 1: Fowler lf 2: Bonifacio ss 3: Sizemore cf 4: Rios rf 5: Getz 2b 6: Giambi 1b 7: Mora 3b 8: Rodriguez,I c 9: ----- Catcher ----- --- First Base ---- --- Second Base --- --- Third Base ---- Start Rodriguez,I Giambi Getz Mora Plat Def Util1 Avila 5 Kotchman 25 Loretta 25 Loretta 10 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 ---- Shortstop ---- --- Left Field ---- -- Center Field --- --- Right Field --- Start Bonifacio Fowler Sizemore Rios Plat Def Util1 Reyes,JB 30 Guillen,J 10 Fowler 20 Giles 0 Util2 Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 Designated Hitter ---- PH vs LHP ---- ---- PH vs RHP ---- Start Plat Def Util1 Giles Giles Util2 Guillen,J Guillen,J Util3 Util4 Util5 Util6 Util7 ***************************************************************************** TENDENCIES: You may tweak your managerial tendencies using 5 different levels: Least Frequent, Less Frequent, Neutral, More Frequent, Most Frequent. Setting everything to neutral will pretty must just use your team to its abilities (IE-if you have a guy who steals a lot of bases, he still will steal a lot of bases). These set the aggressiveness or passiveness of your team on certain issues. PH stands for "pinch hitter". ***************************************************************************** .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 2009 Albuquerque Maul Manager Tendencies Bunting for a hit: Most frequent Sacrifice bunting: Most frequent Squeeze bunting: Most frequent Hit and run: Most frequent Stealing: Most frequent Running: Most frequent Taking pitches: Least frequent PH for a pitcher: Neutral PH for a non-pitcher: Neutral PH for platoon player: Neutral PH in a blowout: Neutral Pitching around: Most frequent Intentional walk: Most frequent Pickoff throws: Most frequent Pitching out: Most frequent Using relievers: Neutral Using closers: Neutral Holding runners: Most frequent Infield in: Most frequent Guard lines: Most frequent Double switch Neutral ************************************************************************** PLAYING TIME LIMITS: If you want a particular player to not be pinch hit for (either vs LHP/RHP or both) let me know. But please only list up to 3 players. DMB won't make it a habit of pinch hitting your superstars. The actual "at bats", "starts", or "relief app" listed below you do not have to fill out. DMB will do that automatically. ************************************************************************** Player-specific tendencies (++ most, + more, = neutral, - less, -- least, N never) Player BHt BSc BSq H&R Stl Run Tak PHL PHR PHP Blw Ard IBB Pck Out Rel Cls DS .................................................................................................... Manager Profile for 2009 Albuquerque Maul Playing Time Limits Maximum Atbats Player vsLHP vsRHP Starts Relief App Avila 10 51 0 0 Benson 0 0 2 6 Bonifacio 143 318 0 0 Crain 0 0 0 56 Fowler 137 296 0 0 Getz 65 310 0 0 Giambi 89 204 0 0 Giles 81 144 0 0 Gregg 0 0 0 72 Guillen,J 94 187 0 0 Hampton 0 0 21 0 Hanrahan 0 0 0 67 Johnson,Ra 0 0 17 5 Joyce 4 28 0 0 Kotchman 112 273 0 0 Lidge 0 0 0 67 Lohse 0 0 22 1 Loretta 55 126 0 0 Mora 165 285 0 0 Ortiz,R 0 0 13 10 Oswalt 0 0 30 0 Reyes,JB 30 117 0 0 Rincon 0 0 0 33 Rios 161 421 0 0 Rodriguez,I 92 333 0 0 Ryan,BJ 0 0 0 25 Saltalamacchia 96 187 0 0 Sizemore 134 302 0 0 Smoltz 0 0 15 0 Wang 0 0 9 3 Weaver,Jer 0 0 33 0 Zimmermann 0 0 16 0