RC Decision - rule proposal

[Colby]

Corey, see my point about NBA Futures.

[h4cheng]

Is this possible to manually edit the total points scored in a week in Fantrax? The fairest way to calculating pitching points for any team over the innings limit would be:

Adjusted Pitching Point = Total Pitching Point * 65 / Innings pitched for the week

[Dan Wood]

ThE fact of the matter is that the rule is 65 IP... end of story. Because Fantrax has a loophole doesn't make it right. When you break a rule it is considered cheating. Now the question is what is fair punishment?
Corey, busy may be a viable excuse, but I have seen people watch over their rosters like a bird is about to hatch. Plus it isn't preposterous, I have a league that has a similar rule.
Mike if you are sitting at 60 plus innings going into Sunday, then you shouldn't be starting anyone. It's called roster management. And this is the argument as to why we are not a weekly league, BC we want to manage our line ups.
Now we have 3 suggestions... Forfeit, loss of points for an entire day, or what Colby is suggesting. Going over in innings is not an oversight when it happens every week

[h4cheng]

Just thought of this as another way to resolve things:

Suppose a team has 60 innings pitched heading into last day, SP1 went for 6 innings, SP2 went for 7 innings and SP3 went for 3 innings on Sunday. Arrange the 3 SPs from the most innings pitched to the least innings pitched, and then bench them until the team falls below 65. In this case, SP1 and SP2 would both be benched and the team is left with 63 innings pitched.

[Corey]

New Era has a hard cap. Once you hit it, fantrax stops counting points

[Dan Wood]

As long as you are under the cap at the end of scoring on Saturday, you can throw as many innings as you like on Sunday...

My proposal is this then...

50 points deducted for every inning over the limit...

Howe as per your suggestion, I don't think that will work because it will take too much time, and could be considered baby sitting.

Anyone else have suggestions I am all ears, but this is something that needs to be taken care of. As I said previously the rule is in place, and there is a very exploitable loop hole. I would like to have this taken care of by the end of this scoring period.

Thank you

[rcankosy]

I fully support the 65 IP rule, but I think it is too much of an imposition to ask people to calculate how many innings they have left on Sunday before the lineups lock or try to guess how many IP their starters will get on Sunday if they are under the innings limit going into the last day.  I am pretty sure that everyone on the RC knew the Fantrax limitations when we voted on the 65 IP rule, because I specifically asked the question myself on the public forum.  Therefore, I vote to leave things as is, and let Fantrax handle this as best it can without any human intervention or penalties.

[Dan Wood]

1. If you are at 60 IP it's not quantum physics...
2. Why I wanted a start limit

[h4cheng]

The loophole has been there since last year, so I don't know why we want to start using such a harsh penalty now.

Fantrax does have the capability of adjusting scoring in a given week and it looks pretty flexible. My vote is for if the IP goes over the limit, then

 penalty = Total Pitching Points for the week * (Total Innings Pitched - 65) / Total Innings Pitched.

This is the fairest solution. The penalty amount is equal to exactly the amount of scoring excess of 65 innings pitched. Dan I know it's not rocket science when a team is at 60 IP heading into the final day, but what if the team has only 50 innings pitched and 3 starters going on Sunday?

[Dan Wood]

What if a team has 12 mil to spend and there is a FA going for 10? Same principle. Just because there is a ceiling doesn't mean you have to touch it