Perhaps, but his availability was the 9th. I understand why he came in, but once the 8th rolled around, I had a reliever who was actually eligible to pitch the 8th.

Anyway, lesson learned about how Sparky works, I guess.  I've never had an issue like this in SIM baseball with the same type of settings, but I guess HBD is different in that regard. I'll adjust all my bullpen settings accordingly.

Posted by Jtpsops on 8/6/2010 11:14:00 AM (view original):
Perhaps, but his availability was the 9th. I understand why he came in, but once the 8th rolled around, I had a reliever who was actually eligible to pitch the 8th.

Once he's in, he's in - availability no longer applies.

Removing him to start the 8th for no other reason than that you now have someone else available compounds the situation, because you just burned your best reliever for 1 out. Obviously, knowing what happened, you've have rather made the switch in this case - but in general, once you bring my best reliever in the game, I'd want to get whatever I can out of him, and not just bring someone else in because they are now available.