I am confused about how the Starter #2A and 2B, and 3A and 3B work. I am sure there is a thread on this somewhere, but I cant find it. Here is my situation:

My rotation is:

'08 Addie Joss
'02 Bill Bernhard
'18 Fred Toney
'08 Fred Steele
'19 Art Nehf

I have set it up as:

Starter #1: Addie Joss
Starter #2A: Bill Bernhard
Starter #2B: Art Nehf
Starter #3A: Fred Toney
Starter #3B: Elmer Steele

If I set it up this way will my rotation go like this? Addie Joss, Bill Bernhard, Fred Toney, Addie Joss, Art Nehf, Elmer Steele, repeat. 

The problem with that is Bill Bernhard has 259 IP and will be getting the same amount of innings as the other three pitchers that have 125 IP tops so I am not sure how to set it up. 

I was thinking it might be easier to put Addie Joss and Bill Bernhard as Starters #1-2, then have Fred Toney and Elmer Steele be Starters 3A,3B, and switch Art Nehf in with Toney or Steele when they are too tired to start. Which is the best way to set up this rotation? Is it easier to just set them up as individual starters and manage them that way? Thanks for any input.

You're right about how it will go if you leave it that way.

Addie has 342 IP... he can start every 3 days. Bernhard will get a little tired if he starts every 3 days. And if you have a 125 IP guy they will have a tough time starting every 3 days (40 pitches * 54 starts = 2160 pitches... 2160/15 P/IP gives you 144 IP)

Do you need any of them to do bullpen work? There are 2 ways you can go about it.

Just set them all as starters with PCs around 100 and their autorest at 99, Nehf/Toney/Steele will get skipped about half the time. You can get precise and work it out in more detail if you want to.

Or, go with Bernhard/Steele as a tandem (259 + 125) and Joss/Nehf as a tandem (349/114) and put Toney in the bullpen.

My bullpen is '09 Charlie Smith, '34 George Hockette, '06 Dennys Reyes, '04 Chick Robitaille, '09 Larry Pape, and '15 Cy Falkenberg. Total IP in my bullpen is 266, so yes I could use a little help in my bullpen, but it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary. How would you manage that staff jfranco? Learning from the best is not a bad way to go lol. Tahnks for your help.

Yeah that's not a ton of innings, so I'd probably go with Toney in the 'pen and the 2 tandems. I think I'd make Falkenberg the closer... sucks to use Toney as a long A because he's so good but I don't know who else you'd use. 

this must be a pretty low cap league (100m maybe?) but i still worry you're a little low on innings. Not a good combo when they're also not evenly distributed.

Posted by jfranco77 on 5/19/2011 8:55:00 PM (view original):
Yeah that's not a ton of innings, so I'd probably go with Toney in the 'pen and the 2 tandems. I think I'd make Falkenberg the closer... sucks to use Toney as a long A because he's so good but I don't know who else you'd use. 

this must be a pretty low cap league (100m maybe?) but i still worry you're a little low on innings. Not a good combo when they're also not evenly distributed.

Its an OL so the cap is 80m. It may not be a bad thing with Toney in the pen bc he will appear in a lot more games..? Or, I could also use Toney in a tandem with Joss and have Elmer Steele in the pen with Art Nehf in a tandem with Bernhard? I have 1,250 total IP. Your absolutely right about having them be evenly distributed bc I tried a team somewhat similar to this except I had ed summers(301 IP)and addie joss with less IP in my bullpen and it is very difficult to manage. It seems like they are all always at the same %. I am going to do the tandem and see how it works out. Hopefully it will work like a charm. My combined WHIP is 0.87 for an OL with a solid lineup so it should be a very solid team as long as I can keep my pitchers rested. I am going to need to rely on a high stamina AAA. Thanks for your input, its much appreciated as always!

Patrick

1250 IP with AAA in an OL will probably be OK. 

I think it will work if I rest Steele/Toney/Nehf (whoever I use in my pen) only when Addie Joss is starting since he can go deeper into games. I think I am going to go with Addie Joss/Fred Toney and then I can use Bill Bernhard/Art Nehf/Elmer Steele for the second tandem. I will have to manage it closely, but I am pretty sure that is the best way to get the most out of the staff I have. If you have any additional input on that let me know. Thanks

Actually scratch that. I am going to use Joss/Nehf and then have Toney set as tandem 2A with Bernhard at 2B and Steele in the pen only when Toney/Bernhard are starting. Last post haha I promise. What do you think?

That sounds like it will work. Just remember how many innings you really need to run a 2-man rotation (or a 2-man tandem) ... ideally each guy/tandem would be over 450 IP. 

Just make sure you have Nehf in one of your tandems because you'll get an occasional advantage from bringing him in against a lineup set to face righties. 

the simplest solution is to set auto-rest at 99 so the low IP guys will get skipped and the rotation will work itself out if your PCs are reasonable.
the more tedious solution is to move them around by hand.
I don't like using too many A's and B's because it never seems to be a good fit.