team strategy v. manager strategies

c-man · 05-21-2007, 08:51 PM

Can someone explain to me the difference between these two? i realize that team strategy allows you to set strategy for specific innings and scores, but the other, more general settings, are redundant with manager settings. I find this to be a little confusing - if my team settings are to steal often, and the manager settings are the opposite, which overrules? Do I have to set both to match?

This seems somewhat conceptually flawed to me - i don't think you can have it both ways. It seems that either you should either make all of the settings through the manager, (the equivalent of a mandate from the GM) or these controls should only be Team settings.

Does this bother anyone else? Is there another way to think about it?

1998 Yankees · 05-21-2007, 09:17 PM

Your team strategies are your manager's strategies unless you change them. Try this as an experiment in a test game: Go to the strategy page of the team that you manage, click the action button, and reset strategy. All the indicators return to neutral.

Next, fire your manager. Go to available personnel, select a manager with memorable strategy settings (maybe edit them to make them memorable), and hire that guy as your new manager. Go back to the team strategy page and see that the team strategies now match the new manager's strategies.

You may have noticed two other options in the action button to ask the manager or bench coach to set the team strategies. You might want to do this if you had changed them and now want to realign them with the manager or bench coach again.

So, unless I am corrected (a distinct possibility

), I believe the team strategy settings = your manager's preferences unless and until you change them manually, whereupon they will take precedence over the manager's strategies.

spark240 · 05-21-2007, 10:05 PM

So it sounds like the manager tendencies are really just a kind of "preset" for the team strategies.

1998 Yankees · 05-21-2007, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spark240

So it sounds like the manager tendencies are really just a kind of "preset" for the team strategies.

That's the way I look at it, yes.

05-21-2007, 08:51 PM	#1
c-man Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 130	team strategy v. manager strategies Can someone explain to me the difference between these two? i realize that team strategy allows you to set strategy for specific innings and scores, but the other, more general settings, are redundant with manager settings. I find this to be a little confusing - if my team settings are to steal often, and the manager settings are the opposite, which overrules? Do I have to set both to match? This seems somewhat conceptually flawed to me - i don't think you can have it both ways. It seems that either you should either make all of the settings through the manager, (the equivalent of a mandate from the GM) or these controls should only be Team settings. Does this bother anyone else? Is there another way to think about it?

05-21-2007, 09:17 PM	#2
1998 Yankees Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yankee Stadium, back in 1998. Posts: 8,645	Your team strategies are your manager's strategies unless you change them. Try this as an experiment in a test game: Go to the strategy page of the team that you manage, click the action button, and reset strategy. All the indicators return to neutral. Next, fire your manager. Go to available personnel, select a manager with memorable strategy settings (maybe edit them to make them memorable), and hire that guy as your new manager. Go back to the team strategy page and see that the team strategies now match the new manager's strategies. You may have noticed two other options in the action button to ask the manager or bench coach to set the team strategies. You might want to do this if you had changed them and now want to realign them with the manager or bench coach again. So, unless I am corrected (a distinct possibility ), I believe the team strategy settings = your manager's preferences unless and until you change them manually, whereupon they will take precedence over the manager's strategies.

05-21-2007, 10:05 PM	#3
spark240 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Highest county in the Virginia hills Posts: 637	So it sounds like the manager tendencies are really just a kind of "preset" for the team strategies.