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Wolfman: Well, this week I had to prepare my computer manager (CM) for my league the CBA. Unfortunately, this is going to be our first year, in our 9th season,, that we will not compete as we already are 0-6 in our first week. Anyway, I did have a chance to see a few of the enhancements and while for experienced players, you probably picked up on them right away, I thought it might be helpful for some of our members who are newer players to hear a bit more about what I have seen from a GM point of view (and not as a commissioner who also will love, so I hear, some of the enhancements for stats connected with the league).

First of all, in updating the computer manager for your team, under the Category of Starter Schedule, there is a new button called "Generate", which will take all the starting pitchers you have defined on the Starters category (up to 7 starters) and sequentially fill in automatically, one per day, into the Starter's schedule for your league. This makes it faster, but for our team, who has 7 starters with two of them not pitching right away, we had to go in and make changes. But now, in the Starter Schedule, you can move a pitcher who is already listed to a different rotation spot and you won't have to see their name listed twice together. It makes it easier to do the schedule of your starters.

Next, on the Batters Category, there is a new button called "Pinch" - where for the four types of pitchers (normal righties and lefties, reverse righties and lefties), you can define an order (called pecking order) of who to pinch hit first and so on. Also, you can define a pecking order of pinch runners here.

On the Update Default Lineup Screen there is a "Super Hal" button which is used to define for each lineup you show, an order of when to use your players (again a pecking order) at each fielding position.  I believe this is a new feature. Our league does not use this feature, but it is available.

Also on this screen you now have 50 different lineups you can define; or in other words, you could create a unique lineup against every starting pitcher your opponent has. Also, and this is new (and you must be careful) is, under Preset (which is the name you give to each lineup) another field called DLM (draft league mode) where you can define against a left handed or right handed pitcher (or N/A if you are doing a lineup for specific starters) the range of the opponent's start code for strongest against Left or Right Handed hitters (which ranges from 9L to 1L, E and 1R to 9R). So obviously a lefty who has a rating of say 5R is a reverse lefty and so on. There doesn't exist anymore, in the first four lineups, an automatic assumption that lineup 1 is a normal left, lineup 2 is a normal right, and so on.

These are the main enhancements I saw which I had to use to make our latest manager for our very powerless Skokie Wolfmen in the 2014 CBA season. However, we did draft many young players and if our veterans who were injured return it could be a whole new ball game in 2015. Hope this summary was helpful.