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VarlosZ · 06-11-2015, 01:50 AM

This isn't specific to OOTP 16; as far as I can tell this problem has been around forever. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding the situation.

The issue is that is that assigning subs for each position is too inflexible. Specifically, you can't get a player who starts at one position to be the backup at another.

Take the Mets: they have Daniel Murphy at 2B, Wilmer Flores at SS, and Ruben Tejada on the bench as a utility infielder. I'd like to be able to set it up so that, if Murphy is injured or tired, then the poor-fielding Flores would move off of SS and over to 2B, and then Tejada takes over for Flores at SS. There are tons of scenarios in which this kind of plan would be desirable, and of course it happens in real life all the time.

But (and, again, correct me if I'm wrong), OOTP seems incapable of handling this setup. Is there a workaround other than just manually making the change as players drop in and out of the lineup?

For the record, this doesn't seem like a terribly difficult fix, in theory. Just program it so that a player's assigned responsibility as a backup supersedes his responsibility as a starter. That way, in my scenario above, when Murphy goes down Flores would automatically be grabbed to play 2B, leaving SS open for Tejada.

Thoughts?

06-11-2015, 01:50 AM	#1
VarlosZ Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 35	Am I nuts, or do substitutions not work great? This isn't specific to OOTP 16; as far as I can tell this problem has been around forever. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding the situation. The issue is that is that assigning subs for each position is too inflexible. Specifically, you can't get a player who starts at one position to be the backup at another. Take the Mets: they have Daniel Murphy at 2B, Wilmer Flores at SS, and Ruben Tejada on the bench as a utility infielder. I'd like to be able to set it up so that, if Murphy is injured or tired, then the poor-fielding Flores would move off of SS and over to 2B, and then Tejada takes over for Flores at SS. There are tons of scenarios in which this kind of plan would be desirable, and of course it happens in real life all the time. But (and, again, correct me if I'm wrong), OOTP seems incapable of handling this setup. Is there a workaround other than just manually making the change as players drop in and out of the lineup? For the record, this doesn't seem like a terribly difficult fix, in theory. Just program it so that a player's assigned responsibility as a backup supersedes his responsibility as a starter. That way, in my scenario above, when Murphy goes down Flores would automatically be grabbed to play 2B, leaving SS open for Tejada. Thoughts?