Week 5

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah tim needs to drop someone.

 

since when can we add a player to go over the roster limit anyway?

 

if i'm reading the transactions right, he had too many guys on his roster before he added robertson/dropped rasmus?

Yeah, I'll drop someone else before start of action tomorrow.

 

Would there be any objection if I dropped Santiago and played shorthanded this week with an extra guy on my bench?

 

i don't think it really matters because duffy and samardzija would be "relief pitcher eligible" if that existed. you'll just have an extra starter, which is fine as long as you don't go over your 7 start limit.

[Tracer Bullet]

yeah tim needs to drop someone.

 

since when can we add a player to go over the roster limit anyway?

 

if i'm reading the transactions right, he had too many guys on his roster before he added robertson/dropped rasmus?

Yeah, I'll drop someone else before start of action tomorrow.

 

Would there be any objection if I dropped Santiago and played shorthanded this week with an extra guy on my bench?

 

Why not today so someone can pick them up tomorrow if they want?

[Guest]

I think if you added guys and went over the roster limit, you should drop those guys not whoever you want.

 

Question on waivers - if it only runs Sunday morning, we are more or less eliminated from adding starters to get to 7 starts. Is this what we want?

[abuck1220]

geez, can some setting be turned on so you can't just have a [expletive] illegal roster? i've played in yahoo and espn leagues and it's literally impossible to be like, oops i accidentally have too many guys.

[abuck1220]

I think if you added guys and went over the roster limit, you should drop those guys not whoever you want.

 

 

for sure.

[TruffleShuffle]

geez, can some setting be turned on so you can't just have a [expletive] illegal roster?

 

yes, there is a setting like that, but if that's turned on then people won't be able to move pitchers to their bench to avoid going over the 7 start limit.

[Tracer Bullet]

it's pretty simple as is. every time you add a player, you drop one. there isn't a lot of math involved. and it says across the top of your my team page that you've over the limit.

 

i assume tim gets no points for all days he's been over the limit.

[TruffleShuffle]

yes, he went over when he added scott rolen on tuesday, so for wednesday and thursday's games (5/3 and 5/4) his points scored will have to be revised to 0.

[Guest]

I think if you added guys and went over the roster limit, you should drop those guys not whoever you want.

 

Question on waivers - if it only runs Sunday morning, we are more or less eliminated from adding starters to get to 7 starts. Is this what we want?

I dropped Rasmus, who is the one who put me over earlier. I picked up a reliever today and want to drop a reliever in his place all within one day. What's wrong with that?

[Guest]

I'm legal again. Eight years in the league and I've been illegal for maybe a total of five days now. But if everyone feels the need to take two days of points away for a mistake, have at it.

[Guest]

Oh, and if y'all want to drop Rolen from my team for the scoring period and make me pick up someone else from the scrap heap next period, that's fine too.

[Tracer Bullet]

I'm legal again. Eight years in the league and I've been illegal for maybe a total of five days now. But if everyone feels the need to take two days of points away for a mistake, have at it.

 

whoa. that's a little dramatic.

[Guest]

I'm legal again. Eight years in the league and I've been illegal for maybe a total of five days now. But if everyone feels the need to take two days of points away for a mistake, have at it.

 

whoa. that's a little dramatic.

I'm a little pissed that a mistake that I gained approximately 1 point with (if Rolen is what put me over) will take away two entire days of scoring, 4 of my 7 starts for the week and likely push me to 1-4 on the year. Taking away the points for Rolen, I get. Taking away all the points from those two days is way over the top, imo.

 

If this were a habit, then I'd feel differently. It's not, which is why I brought up my time in the league and how little I've been illegal during that time.

 

But whatever. I haven't had time to track all the changes this spring, so if punishments have become that harsh, then have at it.

[Tracer Bullet]

I thought the rules stated pretty clearly that if your roster is illegal, you lose points for the days that you're illegal. i'm new, so maybe that's a new rule change. but i got the sense that it's been that way for a while. it's not as if someone's asking to bring the hammer down on you. we're playing by the rules.

[TruffleShuffle]

if we don't have a rule like that, what's to stop people from stashing extra players on their team? the punishment of losing like 2 points for their offensive player who put them over?

[TruffleShuffle]

I'm legal again. Eight years in the league and I've been illegal for maybe a total of five days now. But if everyone feels the need to take two days of points away for a mistake, have at it.

 

well you're the commissioner, propose an alternate solution. multiple people had the understanding that illegal rosters cannot score points. i don't think that dropping a player to become legal and losing that player's points is really much of a deterrent. what if i have too many pitchers and a starting pitcher goes out and posts a -15, and i drop him, can i get rid of that -15 that he tagged me with?

 

i could get behind some kind of real penalty, like a 20 point per day loss for teams that have illegal rosters. that figures to be less than the punishment of wiping out an entire day's worth of scoring, but still significantly harms a team's chances of winning that week.

[Tracer Bullet]

i propose we stick with the rules for this season and worry about changes in the off-season

[Guest]

I thought I ceded the commish duties back to Juan. I'm billing full time to two clients, part time to another, being a dad and trying to help run a website at the moment. That's how I ended up making a mistake in the first place!

 

Sorry to all about being grumpy & dramatic last night. I'm tired. :)

[abuck1220]

i don't care what happens to his points for those days, but i don't think the proper solution is dropping 3 shitty players and getting to keep robertson.

[Guest]

i don't care what happens to his points for those days, but i don't think the proper solution is dropping 3 [expletive] players and getting to keep robertson.

Why?

 

Since I did all those moves yesterday, it's the same thing as if I had dropped the shitty players first and then picked up robertson with the extra space. What difference does the order make?

[Guest]

I think the only solution is to just not count AJ Burnett's start.

[moochpuppy]

I'm trying to figure out when this league became so difficult. :-k

[TruffleShuffle]

I think the only solution is to just not count AJ Burnett's start.

 

you're the one who's playing tim, so you should probably have some input.

 

don't we usually say that we should make the rules simple? seems to me like a standard points deduction for an illegal roster is more simple than sometimes removing someone's points, but only if they haven't been in the league x years and had only y illegal rosters during that time, and it was an accident and not done on purpose. in which case they only lose the points of one of the players they added this week.

 

otherwise, there's pretty much no penalty for me to go over my roster limit by adding some setup man in response to an ineffective or injured closer, then keeping him as a reserve until the closer situation becomes more clear. if my guy is named as closer, i keep him and drop someone else... if he stays as setup man then i just drop him again.

[Guest]

What's the penalty right now? I agree just dropping the points of the player picked up is dumb.

[Guest]

LaRoche to the bench (day-to-day), Escobar into the lineup.

 

Also, why the [expletive] are the White Sox moving Chris Sale to closer?