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Originally Posted by Trav876
I meticulously look at box scores and know all of the players extremely well (in this 90's sim) so perhaps I just catch it more often than those who don't necessarily realize a weak hitter is hitting clean-up, for example.
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I pretty much know where everyone batted in the order for any season that I play, especially since you can always check Baseball Reference to see day-by-day batting lineups, even for early decades of baseball when none of us was alive. But most of the deviation that I see is not with the cleanup spot. It's much more often with the leadoff spot.
As far as settings go, I highly doubt that this has anything to do with it, but I never use default AI talent evaluation settings. I use 65/25/10/0, 65/30/5/0 or 70/25/5/0. This helps ensure that the AI bases its personnel decisions largely on player ratings with current-season stats as its secondary priority. It does not pay much attention to past-season stats.
This has a major impact on transaction behavior, promotions and demotions, free agent decisions, etc. I find that it makes the AI far more competitive and realistic. Maybe it also helps with lineup decisions, such as recognizing that a player with the best power rating, and not necessarily the best current or past stats, should go in the cleanup spot.