Nat Ferguson - Version 1, 19th Century Draft Manager (3/10/10)

		NAT FERGUSON - 19TH CENTURY MANAGEMENT

Installation Instructions:
Manager Nat Ferguson consists of the following four files:
	
        MgrNatFg.lib, MgrNatFg.mob, MgrNatFg.msy, MgrNatFg.dct

You must copy or move each of these four files into your BBW directory or folder

		OVERVIEW OF MANAGERIAL STRATEGIES/STYLE
The enclosed manager - Nat Ferguson - is programmed to handle 19th century draft replays and rosters. As such, he is extremely conservative with player usage, seldom substitution for players except due to injuries, player ejection or in the case of pitchers,  extremely poor outings. In the latter instance, Ferguson will relieve a pitcher out of the bullpen and not move a position player to the mound. This was not, per the rules of the time, allowed except when approved by the opposing manager.

Ferguson's relief strategies are largely but not exclusively based on the type of bullpen/staff Ferguson is managing. If that team, for example, had very few actual relief appearances (roughly 10 or less), Ferguson will usually allow the starter to pitch a complete game even if hit extremely hard (12+ to 15/20+). 

Teams that had higher relief appearances (and/or lower team ERAs) will usually lead to a "quicker" (relatively speaking) hook. In addition, Ferguson will consider the pitcher's starting durability rating, inning and score.

You'll notice that a number of Ferguson's pitching move entails moving the pitcher to rightfield and the rightfielder - if he can pitch - to the mound. In most instances, this was the usual approach to relieving a pitcher. However, as noted above, Ferguson will bring a pitcher from the bullpen (such as it was at the time) and take a starter out.

Because many of the statistics for this era are incomplete, Ferguson is programmed to internally "create" these missing numbers. This includes caught steals (as well as actual steal attempts if the player has a steal rating and zero actual steals) as well as sacrifice hits.