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1. Is there a need for an Anti-Tanking rule?I'll post more rules questions as I come across them.
Posts: 15380Bonus inPoints: 0View Profile Personal Message (Offline)Rules: Tanking« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2016, 06:58:01 PM »Tanking RuleBeginning in the 2017 season, any team scoring... Less than 2,000 points lose their 1st round pick for that season. More than 2,000 but less than 3,000 points loses a 2nd round pick for that season.Unowned teams will not be subject to this provision.
The current tanking rule may hinder teams because they are so bad they can't score enough to keep their draft picks. However, I would guess the rule was put in because it has been a hot topic in sports and has become a regular occuring problem. Tanking is what the Chicago Black Sox did and there should be a rule against that if a competition is wanted instead of an exhibition. A team may try to win early in the year against one team and then try and lose later in the year to another and that may effect the playoffs. Also, the Cleveland Indians tried to lose and then Willie Mays Hayes had a great year and they won anyway. I don't like the rule either though and I would suggest a losers bracket to prevent the practice with the winning team getting the first pick or require teams to make lineup changes on a weekly basis and make a genuine effort to win judged with the Commissioner's discretion. There is probably only one super team. The New York Mets. Just kidding. It's the Astros. They went undefeated and stockpiled about five times as many picks as they would have in the early rounds if the trading of draft picks weren't allowed. The new teams are having a fire sale and the better teams have the talent to trade and continue to build upon their success with future draft picks thus creating a larger gap amongst the competition. If anyone questions or argues with me I will trade my future draft picks and cheap talent to the top teams for late first round picks and then change my team name to the Tanks. I recently released "El Tanque" Yasmany Tomas if anyone is interested and I have Tanaka. Tank you very much.P.S. If any of you go against me then you are competing with me and therefore not trying to lose.
I agree with Roto. On this. I think we should put this rule on backburner for right know. There is some gms that our going to have enough a tough time building their roster up . yes my team is young and I do have some wholes in it and I will fill them wholes with fa but my minors for example I have 46 position players in minors out of those guys. Only half of them our even in majors or even playing baseball. That being said their will be some teams if anything like my reds will want to build up their minors so they can compete down the road. Some of these teams our in rough shape by keeping this rule I feel gms will be harmed by this. We can always monitor teams to make sure they are not tanking. Most owners will build there build there team up thru draft within 2 to 3 yrs after that then maybe then we should be a concern but right know I think we hold of on this rule until we truly need to use it.
This rule is completely ineffective anyway. Even the worst team had almost 10000 points. We definitely need a tanking rule. It hurts the league when you have teams that are built completely of minor leaguers. With 200 spots in the minors, I don't think anyone needs to worry about not being able to build their team. Yes, I believe this league needs a trade committee.
Sounds like you want to start a new league!