[Smelson]

I'm several years into my fictional league, and I just pulled off a series of trades that basically revamped my entire starting rotation. I asked the computer manager to set my rotation, bullpen, etc, and everything seemed in place. I had 5 starters in my 5 man rotation, it was set to play highest rested starter, etc. All of the normal functions.

I simmed ahead about a month or so and then stopped to see how my new pitchers were performing...and I see that my #4 and #5 pitchers in my rotation hadn't pitched at all! Not a single inning. I took a look back at the schedule for the last month and saw that the 1, 2 and 3 pitchers pitched in a normal rotation, but everytime it came to the 4th starter in the rotation, instead of starting the actual 4th starter that is listed in my pitching rotation, it started a reliever...and then it would sometimes start the SAME reliever the next game, when the #5 pitcher was supposed to start. After that, the "rotation" would start over and the #1 pitcher would pitch again.

I fixed the problem by setting the rotation to "strict order" instead of "start highest rested starter," but is there any reason why I was having that problem in the first place?