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Originally Posted by billethius
Wouldn't a guy in your starting lineup also be listed as the starter in your depth chart?
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Not if your first inclination is to ignore the depth charts. I didn't use depth charts in 2006, I just set my lineups and sat anyone who needed to be rested from the pre-game screen. Try it out - change your leadoff man with a guy on the bench who isn't in your depth chart and you'll see that he's not highlighted in the stat portion of the screen. So this change took away information from its most useful (and usual, all the way back to Hardball, like I said) spot AND makes you use depth charts just to make it somewhat easier to see your starting lineup's stats.
The starting lineup stat filter sounds like a good solution, so long as there's a value returned for players who are not in the starting lineup, a 0 or B or something so they don't get filtered out, just listed after those in the lineup. And it goes without saying that this filter would list players in the lineup, regardless of whether they are in your depth charts.
On that note, it'd be cool to be able to keep track of stats according to where a player batted in the lineup. I know it's not sabermetric and all that, but it's always fun when it's brought up in a broadcast that someone hits much better in the five spot rather than the three spot or whatever, and if lineup spot is introduced as a variable the program should be able to track it, right?