[Syd Thrift]

What everyone else said. Two additional points:

1. I'm not completely enamored with the AI's ability to figure things out on its own in non-standard situations such as the deadball era, particularly when I, the user, do additional things to influence the way the game is played (like making fictional players with the normal spread of ratings and then heavily recalced to make them era-appropriate instead of having a bunch of guys with 160 speed).

2. For those of us who play the game without any ratings turned on, allowing the AI to go behind the scenes and use who is actually the best hitter available by ratings defeats much of the purpose of turning the ratings off in the first place. If, for example, you bench your aging 3rd baseman because he's hitting .180 in May but leave him on the roster because you're not 100% sure he's done, and then the manager refuses to use him for anything except when you put him in the lineup, that gives you information about that player that IMO you ought not to have.