If you watch the event descriptions, the game tells you when your pitcher is tired and very tired. After playing a few games, you learn that it takes a positive offensive occurence to trigger the tiredness. Like baseball, experience helps.

As to my advantage, it most certainly is a factor. Most of what I know about the game, however is in the manual and the rest I believe is absorbed by playing. Ultimately this is a multi-faceted hobby. In addition to field-managership there is GMing, scouting and other important hats to wear.

When I played APBA--a quirky computer SIM of a board game, I beleive that I and other students of the quirks had a huge advantage over newcomers.
I designed PB to work within a STATS INC REAL TIME environment in conjunction with a SIM as free from quirks as possible---but every game has a learning curve---thankfully most of the learning is in PB is about baseball.

Mike Bravard (PB)