Tanking

[mattynokes]

I'm a little confused by the last two posts. Maybe it's better to call it a tanking guidelines or procedure cause that's exactly what my suggestion would do. Letting it be a case-by-case scenario, but based on strength of division there would be a win limit. The win limit wouldn't be known until the end of the season so a team thinking that they're going to be fine could be in trouble if their division foes go on a big win streak.

There's nothing that is tanking and is what a committee would decide. I could see a 40 win team that tried to field a competitive team, but maybe had injuries to key players let off the hook while a 50 win team that didn't attempt to improve there club with even minor league deals and left obvious holes exposed could get slapped with a tanking penalty.

More than anything having some sort of "what could happen you if you're caught tanking" thing in place will deter people from tanking in the first place. And really if this goes into effect but no one is ever considered to be tanking in the future, then it's done its job.