Bench when Fatigue %

[the54effect]

I love the bench when fatigue % option, it really streamlines depth charting an organization. However! It could be streamlined even MORE if you could set a team-wide, or organization-wide, threshold for subbing.

Before this option I was juggling rotations through my organization to keep players from wearing down. Rather than doing that, now I can use rotations only where I want to split play-time or get players innings at various positions, while relying on the fatigue % to keep players fresh.

However, going through and manually setting the % to 90 or 85 or 80 or whatever is time consuming, and unless I set it immediately every time I acquire a player, there's likely to be players that fall through the cracks. It would be silly to have players forced into iron-man status because their individual settings did not get altered!

[scurvycure]

Agreed! This would save a lot of time and clicking.

[ALB123]

I've never used the feature, though I have always been curious about it. I wonder how many people do use the feature for better management of players?

CBeisbol said to me once when I inquired about "fatigue %". I'm paraphrasing here, "My players don't get paid to sit on the bench". Now, of course, you need to bench players when they're way in the red, so they don't get hurt, but I got what he was saying.

In general, I like the idea of having more team-wide settings for basic things. For instance, The first time around for my 5 Starting Pitchers in Spring Training is a 60 pitch limit. The second time around is 75 pitches and it stays that way until their last starts of Spring Training. I like being able to go into Team Strategy and enter one number and have it be applied to all of my Starters. But, I really wish there would be checkboxes so that way we could select All Pitchers, Starters Only, Relievers Only - and then punch in whatever you want numerically. The way it is now, I have to go into the Relief Pitchers' individual Game Strategy and manually enter a number for each pitcher one by one.

And every season, I always forget to remove the pitch count limit on one or two pitchers until the 3rd week or 4th week. That's my own fault, but if I only had one place to change/remove the pitch limits, it wouldn't happen, certainly not every single season.

[ExeR]

Originally Posted by the54effect

I love the bench when fatigue % option, it really streamlines depth charting an organization. However! It could be streamlined even MORE if you could set a team-wide, or organization-wide, threshold for subbing.

Before this option I was juggling rotations through my organization to keep players from wearing down. Rather than doing that, now I can use rotations only where I want to split play-time or get players innings at various positions, while relying on the fatigue % to keep players fresh.

However, going through and manually setting the % to 90 or 85 or 80 or whatever is time consuming, and unless I set it immediately every time I acquire a player, there's likely to be players that fall through the cracks. It would be silly to have players forced into iron-man status because their individual settings did not get altered!

Adding rotation/substitution frequency as an attribute/slider is a great idea + other manager games have that. It will work as expansion of manager profile too. Because mixing rotation practices and other usually more important factors can lead to many variations.
Grinding core players into dust but arriving to playoffs with great chemistry+form, but risk being derailed by injury.
Or keeping everybody fresh and be flexible to injury luck, but risk going into playoff series w/o great chemistry or hot bats.
Can be adjusted for current record too. Somebody can be up for anything, until slow start comes and he drops experiments and play best players. Other trust the process and keep rotating/trusting bench even if results are poor. This can then be connected to trade preference. Optimists won't rush to upgrade anything, while pessimist will try to upgrade ASAP.

[ALB123]

Originally Posted by ExeR

Adding rotation/substitution frequency as an attribute/slider is a great idea + other manager games have that. It will work as expansion of manager profile too. Because mixing rotation practices and other usually more important factors can lead to many variations.
Grinding core players into dust but arriving to playoffs with great chemistry+form, but risk being derailed by injury.
Or keeping everybody fresh and be flexible to injury luck, but risk going into playoff series w/o great chemistry or hot bats.
Can be adjusted for current record too. Somebody can be up for anything, until slow start comes and he drops experiments and play best players. Other trust the process and keep rotating/trusting bench even if results are poor. This can then be connected to trade preference. Optimists won't rush to upgrade anything, while pessimist will try to upgrade ASAP.

Very well said!

For players like me who don't manage the actual games, I believe we are at a disadvantage when it comes to our Pitcher's health, both Starters and Relievers. I probably look at 150 box scores per season. I usually advance one day, or one game, at a time. That way I can check out the box score to see what's going on with my pitchers. However, I occasionally like to Play Until... Next Week. I will often see some Pitcher abuse, in my opinion. Or just general dumb moves. Yes, if I want things to be perfect I need to play out my games...it's just that the visual game action drives me nuts.

[assamarra]

I use the bench fatigue % at a minor league level but will micro manage my major league bullpen on a daily basis.

Agreed a 'set all to nn% would be a nice addition.

[mrjordan]

What is a good setting for bench when fatigue % for position players? I have no idea what number to put at there... Would appreciate any suggestions
thanks

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by mrjordan

What is a good setting for bench when fatigue % for position players? I have no idea what number to put at there... Would appreciate any suggestions
thanks

I use 90% as a rule for position players. Not sure why I picked that but it seems to work for me.

[Scottiedog43]

I’ve never used it
But, I wanna lol

[bailey]

Originally Posted by mrjordan

What is a good setting for bench when fatigue % for position players? I have no idea what number to put at there... Would appreciate any suggestions
thanks

For me it depends on who is the backup. If you have 1 player backing up 3 positions, then I stagger the regulars, 90, 85, 75 or something like that. The idea is to avoid a situation where all 3 starters are tired all at once, which is what will happen if you don't use this feature and are not micromanaging each game.

[Brad K]

If there is no bench at fatigue setting and the depth charts say the backup is to play when the starter is tired at what fatigue amount will the backup play?

[cyrusb]

Originally Posted by Brad K

If there is no bench at fatigue setting and the depth charts say the backup is to play when the starter is tired at what fatigue amount will the backup play?

70% fatigue, it's in the manual somewhere