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Originally Posted by beorn
I don't know you or your leagues, but I think a problem for every on-line league is to agree on what the membership is aiming for.
Some OOTP owners really want a game that feels as much like this year's Major League Baseball as possible. The hitting, the pitching, the on-field strategies, the front office strategies should be as real-to-life as possible.
Other owners want a game that feels as much like being a general manager as possible -- where someone in the league is trying out a new strategy, breaking away from the mold -- and it just might work. Your job as GM is to be ever on the alert for how best to react to change.
The first group is going to hate something new, whether it is trading within your division or batting the pitcher first or pulling starting pitchers after 30 pitches. They say that these kinds of things "abuse the game" because it wouldn't work out in real life, but the game engine just doesn't model why such things would fail. In a narrow sense they are right: the game engine was never intended to test the workability of these sorts of strategies. In a broader sense they are wrong, though, because real life opponents are going to try out new ideas, and you can't always count on the future being just like the past.
I guess either philosophy is a fine way to run a league, it's just that the two kinds of owners tend to come into conflict with each other. I subscribe more to your view of how to look at the game, but I also think you are beating your head against the wall with a commish who has aims opposite yours. Why not just join another league? It would probably lead to more baseball fun than this battle.
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actually i did join another league yesterday and am looking forward to playing in it when it's full. The funny thing about the realism thing is that the HBL has a number of rules that are unrealistic so it's kinda hard to preach realism when the rules say contrary (24 teams in the league, restricted free agency - just like NFL, forced 5 man rotations until september, not allowed to negotiate during arbitration - have to take what ootp gives you, etc). I lost my starting RF thru restricted free agency and thus created the hole that I filled with the trade.