[NoOne]

alot of how you use your pen depends on your rotation.

how many innings do you need each year? experience will let you know that figure fairly precisely, sans injuries. when those occur, you shift gears to adjust to the new context, simple.

when i have a staff that is going to eat up ~1000innings, the top three relievers will be 70-80+ for sure -- there's not much left outside of long releif innings which tend to be while behind by too many runs to worry too much about that portion of the innings in great detail. lets say you get ~80-100ip out of a LR primary role.

so, ~310-340ip out of ~1450 on the top 3guys and mop up duty. that's only leaving ~100-150 for the middle portion of your pen. most of that can be eaten up by 1 good reliever and he will lbe used more often in tigher situations than the "normal" or "use less often" usage below him.

i try to optimize for a playoff run, and not worry about what happens if i am going to miss it due to catastrophic and numerous injuries. there's not hing you can do if you have 2-4 major injuries each of your top pitchers or fielders. no depth can make up for that, unless they weren't very good starters/position players to begind with.

so, with that staff i'd stick with 2 setup guys. but if you ever have 5 guys that will eat up >1000ip, dump it down to 1, then your awesom su2 guy cna be your MR-Use more often guy.

basically, if your setup men are only getting ~40-50ip and your top MR is getting more, this is the far better method. now, the su1 guy will get 70-80 and the former su2 guy, now a mr1 guy,is going to get at least that much.

I like my closer being the best arm, but i also use 8th+. this should use him in jams while also protecting 1 run leads.

on average it's a bit higher than ~25% chance a run is scored in any inning by a team. that's a big deal in a 1-run game even with no one on base. the better teams have an increased %,obviously -- which is what you should care about in this instance -- playoff competition average - a better subset of the total data.

It appears you prescribe teh same things? if that MR guy is noticeably better than the rest, i'd make sure it's "use more", although i think that's going to occur regardless due to the fact the 2nd mr guy is a secondary role.

you may want 2 witha secondary role as MR. you can use specialist as the secondary role -- again just one more way to differntiate and dictate to the AI who should be used first.

if you have 2 lefties and one is better, then i'd even leave them both as MR-use less and only give the secondary role of lefty spec to the better one. the other lefty will still be used by the manager when his strategey dictats use of a lefty and the main guy is tired. the ai wil default to a common sense choice based on something rudimentary like "overall" and handedness when the depth chart doesn't provide an answer relative to context of fatigue.

i wouldn't change much if oyu like the way that type of setup has worked for your in the past. are the right guys getting optimal amount of innings? then it's great. if oyu see lesser guys getting too much and the better guys not being used every other day type usage, i'd change it until you get that type of usage. i want 70-80+ ip out of my better RP.

don't care how they get them if innings are scarce, either. when you have 5 sp that go 200+ each, it starts to get tough to do that. you definitely need 1su not 2 etc. you'll get more out of you pen if they both get ~70ip instead of 50ip each sahring a role that doesn't provide enough innings for 2. i even set the 1 SU as 6th or later. i will use the mr-use more as a high lev secondary OR a setup secondary role. whichever i think will get them more innings relative to current staff.

i don't differentiate between SU inning (6,7,8) unless one is way better but ratings/ai picks the other as "better'. they both go to 6th or later. (assume stopper is at least similar?). if the ai thinks the 'other guy' is better, i'll set him to 1 inning later -- ie reverse order of talent due to how su are used by the ai when both are 'qualified' by their inning of use (you but 7/8 both are qualified for 8th inning work, it's not 7th only and 8th only, it's "7th or later").