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Originally Posted by r0nster
I know I seen somewhere that you can set up the AI to base the lineup on a couple various ways. I will endevor to find that configuration. However that would have to wait till I get home from work.
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There is a "traditional" and "sabermetric" dropdown choice on the AI settings screen. Otherwise, while putting a slow guy with a high OBP leadoff is still not necessarily conventional wisdom, it's not a *terrible* idea and a lot of teams have done it in the recent and not-so-recent past (for the latter, I think specifically of the Boston Red Sox of the 80s and early 90s, who used Hall of Fame slowpoke Wade Boggs at the #1 slot for extended periods of time). If memory serves, the leadoff slot is either the 2nd or 3rd most important position in the lineup and as such it makes more sense to bat a Travis Hafner there instead of 5th or 6th (or 3rd for that matter).
One thing that I *would* kind of like to see is the AI set up a lineup super-duper conventionally:
1. Speedster, ideally with a high OBP
2. Guy with "good bat control", and ideally a middle infielder (to spread out pinch-hitting opportunities)
3. Best pure hitter on the team
4. Best power hitter on the team
5. 2nd best power hitter OR a second lead-off type
6, 7. Other guys in general order of ability to hit for power
8. Catcher (historically, catchers were absolutely not supposed to play every day, and teams didn't like messing lineups up to pull the catcher, so even a team with a decent hitting catcher might bat him 8th)
9. Pitcher
In a DH league, the 6,7, and 8 guys are in the "best guys left" category, with 9 either being a weak-hitting fielder or as a secondary leadoff position.
Alternatively, if Markus were to provide us programmy types with an API we could use to plug in our own lineups and depth charts, we could do something about this ourselves, across eras and the like...
