[IBL] comments on mid-season ballot

[Noel Steere]

I'm afraid I don't understand this distinction regarding a "moving target".  If we vote to accept the current BF rules, there's no guarantee they'll ever be changed, so why not allow a clear improvement to be voted on simultaneously as well?

"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?"

MLB teams have a much larger set of resources to draw those innings from (40 man roster; four+ levels of minor leagues).  IBL teams only have 35 slots, so even if an MLB team never took a player off their 40 man roster, they still have 5 more slots to get those innings from.  Hence my question about how many pitchers those bad MLB teams used coated to our bad IBL teams (actually, *I* was one of those bad IBL teams last year!  It was pretty much just set it and forget it on pitching usage.)

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> On Jul 26, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Sean Sweda <sweda at ibl.org> wrote:
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>> On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:07 AM, Noel Steere wrote:
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>> And here I thought all my passionate discussions this week would be about the Middle East.  Thanks, Sean, for a welcome respite!  :-)
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> ha!
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>> 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).
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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> Sean
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