• All manager instructions are now done via the webtool. We strongly urge you to use the given UI, but you can also paste a raw file if you must.
• This includes promotions/demotions, waivers/claims, and trades.
• All the "save" buttons do the same thing. Remember that no changes of any type get executed unless you hit save, and hitting save saves all changes of all types. If you mess things up hopelessly, you can hit "revert" to bring back the instructions from yesterday's games, although this will not revert saved changes to waiver claims or trades (which need to be manually cleared/declined and re-saved).
• The instrucitons should be self-explanatory except for a couple things. Pitcher handicap is an offset telling the in-game manager how good a pitcher is: lower means that your appraisal of the pitcher is better (linear in scale). The in-game manager will then try to use worse pitchers in lower-leverage situations. Having a spread in handicaps of around 5 is pretty normal, or at least expected.
• The "ph" and "def" boxes in the backups section indicate whether you want the backup to pinch-hit or defensive-replace, respectively. This is chained: if Smith is the starting 1B and Jones the starting C, with Smith backup C and Brown backup 1B, then checking the "ph" box at C means that you want Brown to pinch-hit for Jones, not Smith -- as Smith is probably already in the game. In the weird case where Smith is resting, he may also pinch-hit for Jones, but the primary functionality is to allow Brown to pinch-hit for Jones (with the resulting defensive alignment having Smith moving to C and Brown in at 1B). Same thing for defensive replacements and chaining. No pinch-hitting or defensive-replacement ever happens if the incoming player is more tired than the outgoing one.
• You can list a pitcher in both the starting and relieving lists if you want. We recommend doing this only with a primary reliever making spot starts, as having a pitcher in the reliever list even with high offset doesn't mean that the pitcher will almost never come in: he will be blithely used in low-leverage situations the same way an actual bad pitcher would.