[QuantaCondor]

Originally Posted by Westheim

The last idea I had to combat playoff tanking is actually rather simple:

Rule 1: Only cards that played at least 27 games (6 games for SPs) during the regular season are eligible for the playoffs. [This is 1/6 of a season and should prevent the backup catcher from being eliminatd by accident]
Rule 2: Two (three? four?) cards on the playoff roster are exempt from rule 1. [This allows for the addition of weekend pack pulls]
Rule 3: Exempt cards under Rule 2 can't be more than one level below the team's league level. (So a Perfect team can add Diamonds, but not Golds or lower)

September removals?

Rule 4: Cards that were removed from the 25-man roster after July 31 of the previous season can't be added to the roster again until June 1 of the next season.

Of course the current PT framework, a copy-paste job from base OOTP, does hardly support any of this.

I like the creativity of these ideas. It would be nice to have some resemblance to actual MLB, where you need to be on a roster before a certain date. Adding realism/varying rhythm to the seasons are always good. Just need to find a subset of these kinds of suggestions that are relatively easy to communicate to people, otherwise you'll get endless complaints about bugs and/or how the game is broken.