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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Aug 9, 2016 18:24:45 GMT -5
I have some advice type questions for the league:
1) Strategy. Does anyone use the preset strategies? Good idea? Bad? 2) Good idea to let the bench coach set your lineups and depth charts or do you set your own? 3) Roles. How important is to allow the guy to play his chosen or desired role? I have 2 closers who both want to close. Can't one be happy as a setup guy? 4) Spring Training. Have you guys played mostly your starters or do you use rookies mostly? How about the last week or 2 of spring training? Do you sit your starters to avoid the risk of injury or better to let them get more innings? 5) I noticed my starting pitchers are only pitching 4 innings and it's like the 3rd week of the spring. Shouldn't they be ready to go deeper into games now? Or better to leave them at 4 innings heading into the season? 6) Advice for start of the season. Do you sit guys more often to avoid fatigue and injury?
Thanks for the tips. I've been googling tips and strategies for OOTP17 online but haven't really found much. I have watched a couple of youtube videos that had some helpful tips but not much.
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Post by David_ExposGM on Aug 9, 2016 18:34:34 GMT -5
Good questions. You will get as many different answers as....answers....I'm sure. My 2c:
1) Personally I find setting the team strategy to be tedious and involved (so many options) so I have loaded a preset (won't tell you which). An idea might be to read the text file about the managers and then pick one that lines up with how you want to play, the dimensions of your park and what kind of players you have. If you leave it alone, it's basically an average manager (you could do worse by putting in weird settings yourself). 2) Totally your call. Some will definitely argue that the AI doesn't know what it's doing. I might employ that for the minors just so you have less to micro-manager, but in PBL I prefer to keep an eye on the rotation and lineups myself. 3) For position players, their defense is most definitely affected by playing them out of position (not what you mean I imagine). As far as bullpen, as long as you have a pretty good record, people will cut you some slack. If you're projected to win 45 games EVERYONE will be complaining! 4) As many opinions as manager in PBL. The game will only allow the starters 4-innings of work, then go to the pen and it's generally good about giving everyone time in ST. 5) See answer 4. The AI is trying to give everyone some work. 6) WIN! But seriously folks... Injuries crapshoot - ask Anthony! - just do what you want. I wouldn't rest players, I'd try to get off to a good start!
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Post by MetDaMeats on Aug 9, 2016 18:37:32 GMT -5
1) I didn't know the presets existed until very recently. I made my own, though in retrospect a pre-set strategy is probably just as good, depending on what you need. 2) I let the bench coach do an initial setup, but often I disagree and make tweaks. Try it out for a month or so and if you find that you don't like who the bench coach has leading off or some such thing, then you can alter it manually once you know what you'd prefer. 3) The system of roles can sometimes be gamed. For instance if you set them both as closers and give them both the options of starting 8th inning or later, then you essentially have a closer and a setup guy without the players themselves having an issue. This could be a problem if you have the distinct need for one of them to start in the 7th, but otherwise should be fine. 4) This definitely varies by team. There are benefits to getting young guys to work new positons in spring training, and benefits to having MLB players work off in-game rust before the season. Your priority is up to you. 5) Starters max at 4 inning during spring training. They'll pitch normally in the regular season unless you've told them to do otherwise. 6) I've yet to find the magic combo of actions which can fend off injury. Maybe there is one, and maybe sitting guys would do it. For the most part I just trust to luck and try not to work guys to exhaustion.
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Post by Derek _ Red Sox on Aug 9, 2016 19:23:36 GMT -5
1) Strategy. Does anyone use the preset strategies? Good idea? Bad?
I never used any pre-set strategies but I am considering trying it out. I like the options now.
2) Good idea to let the bench coach set your lineups and depth charts or do you set your own?
I let my bench coach set lineup and pitching but then I go in and tinker with it fit the mold I want just a little more. So essentially I use their actions as advice.
3) Roles. How important is to allow the guy to play his chosen or desired role? I have 2 closers who both want to close. Can't one be happy as a setup guy?
I try to pay attention to roles but I don't live and die with it. If a player is the best player at his position then he will get his demand but I don't worry too much about role players. I've had two closers and I will make up a reliever and they been okay with their treatment.
4) Spring Training. Have you guys played mostly your starters or do you use rookies mostly? How about the last week or 2 of spring training? Do you sit your starters to avoid the risk of injury or better to let them get more innings?
This is where I let the bench coaches do their work. I let them adjust it all and I roll with it. Two things I do though are:
1) I set my rotation to 6 man rotations. I think this allows my starters to not pitch so much and also allows for competition for the final spot(s) in the rotation 2) I manually move players who I know will to make the roster down to AAA as we get further into Spring.
5) I noticed my starting pitchers are only pitching 4 innings and it's like the 3rd week of the spring. Shouldn't they be ready to go deeper into games now? Or better to leave them at 4 innings heading into the season?
I think the game does good with limiting pitchers early and then allowing them to "stretch their arms out" and go deeper as spring rolls along.
6) Advice for start of the season. Do you sit guys more often to avoid fatigue and injury?
I always play to win, I won divisions by 1 game and lost them by 1 game and as exciting as baseball is at the end of the year, games still count the same in April.
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Post by sansterre - Milwaukee Brewers on Aug 9, 2016 20:01:26 GMT -5
1) Strategy. Does anyone use the preset strategies? Good idea? Bad?
Preset strategies are fine and time-saving. The only real reason to tweak whichever preset you prefer is that later innings and closer scores change the values of events. Generally, you're better off playing for many runs sometimes, instead of one run often. Late and close you want to steal and bunt more.
2) Good idea to let the bench coach set your lineups and depth charts or do you set your own?
I don't let my bench coach anywhere near my lineups. I set those suckers myself. I do let him edit the depth charts. Though usually I'll edit that too a bit if I must.
3) Roles. How important is to allow the guy to play his chosen or desired role? I have 2 closers who both want to close. Can't one be happy as a setup guy?
Don't sweat it. Think of it like a tiebreaker. If you can't decide what to do, follow what makes your players happy. But don't be an idiot; don't bring someone up to the majors who can't even hit AAA pitching just because they're crying into their oatmeal about it.
4) Spring Training. Have you guys played mostly your starters or do you use rookies mostly? How about the last week or 2 of spring training? Do you sit your starters to avoid the risk of injury or better to let them get more innings?
I just let the cpu set that up each sim. The only thing worth sweating is trying to get certain batters practice on certain positions. Each batter has a theoretical maximum skill at each position based on his fielding ratings, and it takes 200 games of practice to get to that max. So sometimes it's nice to get your guys reps at a position you want to develop.
5) I noticed my starting pitchers are only pitching 4 innings and it's like the 3rd week of the spring. Shouldn't they be ready to go deeper into games now? Or better to leave them at 4 innings heading into the season?
Don't sweat it; that's just a spring training mechanic.
6) Advice for start of the season. Do you sit guys more often to avoid fatigue and injury?
Don't worry about resting them. They'll take rest when they need it and every game counts. The only time you need to worry about is when you have batters you want batting against certain hands more. For example, let's say you have two catchers, one lefty (your starter) and one righty. You'll probably want to set your starter to never sit against right-handed pitchers and sit every other day against left-handed pitchers. That way you ensure that his rest happens against the kind of pitchers he's worst against. But in general, the depth charts will default to 'rest when tired' for most positions, so you shouldn't need to worry too much.
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