milwaukee_mike wrote:If some choose not to fill their minors that's their problem...6 teams are filling their minors and two aren't the stats from player the Jim Unknowns won't have that much of an impact...
I don't agree. In a six-team league, I play five other teams. If two of them are made up largely of Jim Unknowns, that's 40% of my competition. That has a
significant impact on my players' stats. It then becomes
my problem too.
milwaukee_mike wrote:also as every team plays each other the stats between minor league players at the same level will be relative so it's still easy to see who is performing well relative to the level they're playing at.
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Yes and no. Again, the small size of the league enhances the impact of any anomaly. A Jim Unknown team doesn't play against itself, so in a 6-team league with four real teams and two mostly-Jim Unknown teams, those Jim Unknown teams face 20% fewer Jim Unknowns than I do. This further skews the stats of their real players.
David-J wrote:The task of making sure they are filled could not be simpler. So...make sure you have a full roster at both.
Yeah, you'd think so. The task has proven extraordinarily difficult for some.
My do-it-one-way-in-one-league-and-another-way-in-the-other plan is
not my first choice. It's an attempt at
compromise. My
first choice would be to have a set of rules that everyone follows, even if they're not 100% in favor of them.
Our minor leagues have been problematic from the get-go, and they remain so even after a series of seemingly annual compromises by Steve. Initially Steve announced there were to be no ghost players, and an age limit at AA. After the inaugural draft it was discovered that so few GMs had bothered to comply with the age limit that it was deemed necessary to
temporarily allow ghost players. Then Steve announced a two-year grace period for complying with the age requirement. After the two years were up, there were still GMs who couldn't fill their AA teams with age-eligible players. So then he waived the age requirement, making it as easy as it could possibly be for each GM to fill both of his minor league rosters. And we STILL have GMs refusing to do it.
commish wrote:My preference is to manage baseball issues in such a way that it doesn't create imbalance. With that in mind you may be able to come up with ideas/preferences that can satisfy multiple points of view while maintaining a common and shared environment for all teams.
Yeah, I dig. Unfortunately when there are rules that only some people think they have to follow, it creates an imbalance.
Here's another proposal: abolish the minor leagues, and use the Reserve Roster system. It's not as fun or as interesting to those of us who like to manage our minor league systems, but at least it's
honest. If there are teams who are nominally a part of a minor league, but not really participating in it, then we don't really have a minor league. I like having minor leagues, but I'd rather have no minor league than a half-assed minor league.