That's it until the PT playoffs. Good luck to those who are playing. I did want to mention that Port Ruppert's new manager,
Computer Al, got them to the wild card and within a loss in game 162 of the division title, but did a weird job, I thought. He used 13 pitchers as starters, and seemed to revamp the pitching staff quite frequently, going from a four to a five man rotation at least once. I didn't check the lineups closely, but did notice a few blatant oddities, like often using an inferior defensive player as a defensive replacement. In fact, Pete Rose was a replacement at two positions, at the same time. It seemed that little consideration was given to platooning, and there seems to be no way to set the strategy for that to happen. It also doesn't understand how to rest players. I had to wrest roster control from him when he activated a 13th pitcher and had only Andrew McCutcheon playing center field with no rest. For the two days before I checked McCutcheon played at an exhausted level and his numbers tanked. Since I used only about half of my available perfects this week, I am going to swap out the roster almost totally, except for keeping Rose around to cover multiple positions ( as a defensive replacement, I guess
). I'll probably check at least once a day to see if he changes the lineups as often as the pitching. All in all, I think it demonstrated why the AI doesn't seem to follow your instructions so well when you are in charge. It's pretty effing stupid.
