Manual Game Play - Can I do these?

[dzanr]

I've recently played a number of games manually for the first time. With an eye to some of the features of other baseball sim software I have, I am wondering if there is a way to do any of the following:

• Bring corners in when anticipating a bunt or trying to cut a run off at the plate while still "playing for two" up the middle. By this I mean only corner infielders in. (As opposed to bringing the whole infield in or guarding the lines.)
• Choose to hold a runner on base (to reduce the likelyhood of a successful steal or extra base advancement) or not to hold a runner and play behind him (to increase the likelyhood of making the play defensively.)
• Determine how good of a bunter a particular player is. Is it necessarily the same as his Contact rating?
• Estimate the fatigue of the pitcher.
• View the box score or play log while the game is still in progress.
• Save a game in progress and resume at some later point in time.

Thank you.

DZ

[Frozen Stiffer]

Regretfully, your answers are...

• No.
• No. Not directly, at least. You can't control this, but the pitcher has an applicable rating (Hold Runners) that influences this. You can also initiate a pitchout, which can indirectly keep the runner on base.
• I would think that it ties into his Contact rating as I cannot find anything else which would apply.
• When you say "estimate the fatigue", do you mean determine how long he will last in the game, or determine how tired he is at that moment?
• No. However, this has been suggested.
• No.

[PadresFan104]

All good suggestions for possible new features down the road.  As for pitcher fatigue, you have to use pitch velocity & pitch count, in addition to effectiveness (is he starting to get shelled) to determine fatigue.

[dzanr]

When you say "estimate the fatigue", do you mean determine how long he will last in the game, or determine how tired he is at that moment?

 
I meant how tired he is at the moment; that is, at this particular moment in this specific game.
 
Based on your other answers, I think I can guess the answer to this one as well.   [:(]
 
I think I'll add these items to Shaun's PS2009 Tweaks thread, although I'm not sure if they really would be tweaks or major changes.
 
BTW Frozen, I really appreciate your responsiveness to my questions.  But I gotta tell ya I can only spend about 10 seconds pondering your posts becasue that's about the limit of time I can stand to have your avitar in my peripheral vision.  At what site did you find that Spiderman Broadway Dancer?  WorldsMostAnnoyingAvitars.com? 
 
DZ 

[Frozen Stiffer]

That is an interesting comment, dzanr. I've found that lately, it's been my avatar getting all the attention instead of me.



I honestly do not remember where I found it. I recall seeing it as the avatar for a person on a wargame board that I used to freqent about 8 or 9 years ago. I did a search for it and after a long, difficult process finally found it. I asked the original poster if it was his/permission to use it, but he had gone inactive. He's been mine ever since.

[PadresFan104]

I find it funny that DZ see's Spidey as a Broadway Dancer.  I wonder what other people who have never seen the movie "Napolean Dynamite" must think!!  

[Wrathchild]

One of my first questions to Frozen Stiffer was if that was Spidey doing Napoleon, but apparently avatar precedes the film by many years. In fact, I even pulled up the Napoleon clip to compare and they aren't really alike, though it's still the first thing I think of every day I see it.

[Frozen Stiffer]

ORIGINAL: Wrathchild

One of my first questions to Frozen Stiffer was if that was Spidey doing Napoleon, but apparently avatar precedes the film by many years. In fact, I even pulled up the Napoleon clip to compare and they aren't really alike, though it's still the first thing I think of every day I see it.

What he said.

[:)]

[PadresFan104]

No way! [X(]

[Frozen Stiffer]

Way.