05-16-2012, 04:14 PM
Because the AL has become a laughing stock. For a league that strives to be realistic it couldn't be further from it right now. When every division in the AL was decided last year in april that is just pathetic and it won't be much different this year either. It shouldn't be a viable strategy to slash and burn simply because you think you won't win the WS and then have your team rot for 5 or more years. Be competetive don't sit on your hands and collect 40mil in profit every year. Right now we are headed towards an era that if your not winning you might as well be losing. Which in turn is going to turn the amount of viable trade partners way down. Right now we have a shitload of sellers which is causing people to low ball to an extent. Once all their peices are gone there will be no trade partners because everyone is rebuiding aside from the few teams who are actually trying to win. In which case they wont beable to trade with eachother either since in most cases you see deals for established players in return for specs not established player for established player. In the end what you have will be a very boring Vanilla league. What Matty, Andy and myself are trying to acheive is the prevntion of this as theer is no need for it. The whole league will be helped. No one is going to get hurt by it unless its justified. I think simply having the threat of a punishment will deter most of the gm's. Rather than what we have now which is no punishment at all so the might as well employ the best strategy that there is when playing a video game manager sim. This would be a different story if the game was ctaully coded properley and had major side effects if you lose but it does't.