[IBL] comments on mid-season ballot

[Sean Sweda]

On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:07 AM, Noel Steere wrote:

> And here I thought all my passionate discussions this week would be about the Middle East.  Thanks, Sean, for a welcome respite!  :-)

ha!

> Even if the old system is worse, that doesn't mean a serious flaw in the new system shouldn't be addressed.  You didn't really get around to discussing my suggestion of making that one change, and I'd love to hear your (and everyone else's) thoughts on making that one addition to the new rules (i.e., fatigue after one baserunner at or after BF reached).

There are a variety of ways that variability can be introduced to fatigue point.  However, now is not the right time to debate hypothetical changes.  We are voting on the rules as they are written because those are what have been play-tested and it's not reasonable to ask people to vote on a moving target.  How about after the vote we come up with some optional BF modifications that people can try out during the second half?

> Re comparison to bad MLB pitching staffs:  How many pitchers did those MLB teams use over the season?  Compare that number to the number of pitchers those IBL teams used.

If bad IBL pitching staffs are facing around the same number of BF/game as bad MLB pitching staffs then why is there any reason to think that an IBL team would run out of BF-usage?

Sean