What is the Position Usage information for?
Every team has the same limits for how many games it can use for its batters and pitchers. Each batting position has a maximum of 162 games while all of the pitchers together can use a maximum of 1,100 innings. Once the maximum games are used for a batting position, no more points can be earned by any player in that position. Once maximum innings pitched are reached, no pitchers can earn points for your team in any pitching position. It is worth noting that once a player has been "locked" into your roster for a game that day, your team will receive all of that player's stats/points for that game.
To help you monitor your games and innings use, we provide information on how your usage should be paced evenly over the entire season. A positive (+) number would reflect that you are ahead of pace, while a negative (-) number would reflect that you are behind.
For example, if we are two months into the season, an even pace would have used 53 games per batting position and 367 innings total among all of that team's pitchers.
If your catcher position has played 45 games, you will see "45/162(-8)" on your roster page for "today", just underneath the position marker. This shows that you have used 45 games out of the 162 available for that spot and that you are 8 games behind an even pace (which would have used 53 games). The same will be true for each batting position, while the three outfield positions are aggregated into a 486 game total.
If your pitching staff has used a total of 425.1 innings, you will see "425.1/1100(+59.2)" underneath the last pitching position marker. This would indicate that you have used 425.1 innings out of the 1,100 allotted and that you are 59.2 innings ahead of an even pace.
The Net Position Usage (shown on the Leader board and in your team summary box on the My Team-Overview and League-Home pages) is a sum of the +/- usage values from all of your team's batting positions along with the overall innings +/- usage value. So a value of "-25/+59.2" would mean that your batters, all summed up, are 25 games behind an even pace (some positions may be ahead, some may be behind; but in total, 25 behind) and your pitching staff is 59.2 ahead of pace.
In the end, every team can only use 162 games per batting position and 1,100 total innings pitched. So if a team's usage is below pace, the negative number would give an idea of how may unused games or innings that team will be left with at the end of the season. For a team usage that is above pace, the positive number reflects how many games or innings that team has used ahead of schedule and will thus reach the team's limit prior to the end of the season.
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