[Markus Heinsohn]

There are several different issues / complaints mixed in this thread... generally, when the AI sets up the depth chart it usually does a good job, but of the millions of permutations possible it may miss one that's better every once in a while. Same for in-game substitutions. We are improving this with every version, and in fact the upcoming patch will improve this area even more. If we'd do it 100% perfect though then the game would be unplayably slow, hence we have to make some compromises.

In other instances, often users are misinterpreting certain settings (as happened here with the 3-year fielding recalc enabled) or simply having a different opinion than the AI or have set the AI evaluations in a weird way or this or that. There are a million reasons... I often look at league files where it seems something strange is going on, but in 95% of the cases there is a logical explanation for the game's behavior.