One of the most interesting and fun aspects of playing DYNASTY League Baseball is developing your Manager Profile identity of the tactics you use when managing your team.  When you play a game with the DYNASTY League Baseball Board version or Online version you are developing your own Managerial profile.  Do you play for the big inning and the three run HR like Earl Weaver or use one run tactics like stealing and the suicide squeeze like Whitey Herzog?   Now your Manager profile identity can be entered into the new DYNASTY League Baseball Online Manager profile.  You’ll see some of my profile selections from my SNBL draft league St. Louis Cardinals franchise in this blog post.

The new Manager profiles are targeted to be available for DYNASTY League Baseball Online in late March.  You will be able to select and use your Manager profile right away in a Greatest Team league and also in the upcoming draft leagues.

Manager profiles are important because they allow you to have your team managed according to the tactical  profile that you select if you can’t play your scheduled series live for that given week.

iPad and iPhone
Even though you can’t play a game of DYNASTY League Baseball on your iPhone or iPad (Apple does not allow the Silverlight plug-n) you can view your stats, box scores, game summary and leaders with the iPad and iPhone.  You can also change or update your Managerial profile on the iPad or iPhone. 

Lineups

The Lineups tab allows you to select your saved lineups and assign them to one of the four primary default lineup categories:

Default Lineups:

What happens when a player is injured or is not eligible to be in my default lineup?  The Lineup Slot Preferences section allows you to select various parameters using sliding scales that total 100%  Want your leadoff man to have a high OBP and be good at stealing 2nd?  Slide the scale to weight these preferences more heavily.

Lineup Slot Preferences

Pitching

Managers in recent years are including more pitchers on their roster than in previous years.  15 Batters and 10 pitchers used to be the standard, but today some managers have as many as 13 pitchers on their roster.  You’ll be able to select the depth or pitching on your roster by selecting  the Number of Pitchers to carry on active roster at the top of the Pitching tab.

Do you want to go with a 5 or 4 man rotation and do you want any of your pitchers to pitch on short rest?   The defacto standard used to be a 4 man rotation – now it is 5.  Just remember your pitcher Durability rating is reduced by 7 on short rest so you’ll need a deeper bullpen if you decide to go with a 4 man rotation.  You can select 4 or 5 man rotation at the Starting Rotation Size menu option.

Starting Rotatation Size: 5-Man Rotation 4-Man Rotation

Select Starting Rotation allows you to slot in your starting rotation and also check off if you want any of your pitchers to start on short rest.

Sparky Anderson was nicknamed “Captain Hook”.  Here are your Managerial profile Early/Late hook options:

Baserunning

Here you can set your Manager profile to be aggressive like Whitey Herzog or Joe Maddon or conservative like Earl Weaver.

Baserunning Aggressiveness:

Defensive Throwing Aggressiveness:

Bunting

Eschew or advocate the sacrifice or suicide squeeze bunt?   You can choose different selections for different base and out situations.

Sacrifice/Squeeze Bunt

Pinch Hit/Run

Decide which players on your roster are eligible to be pinch hit or pinch run for.

If you manage like Joe Maddon who lead the AL in pinch hitting appearances from 2008-2010, you’ll want to select Very Frequent or Frequent for Pinch Hit Frequency.

Pinch Hitting:

Defense

Defensive Positioning
Set up your guidelines for when to play the infield in (or just corners in) in various situations.