[IBL] Newsletter - August 15, 2024

[Mike Monostra]

A few thoughts from me:

2024-03 - I think this was mentioned by someone already, but I would
support this if the rule was you had to remove a pitcher when they pitched
9 BF past the BF number listed on the pitcher's card. As it is, I think it
leads to potential issues with early fatigue as others have mentioned.

2024-05 - Definitely supports this, the 18 BF cut-off much better aligns
with today's pitching usage than the current 5 inning rule.

2024-07 - I'm just not sold on this. This is just one example, but Nick
Castellanos has started 3 games in LF over the last 5 years. Kyle Schwarber
hasn't played RF since 2015. (Yeah, I know, awful defenders, but those are
just two guys that popped into my Phillies riddled mind). I'd love to see
data on how many guys actively start both positions.

2024-09 - I understand the rationale behind this decision, I just don't see
this encouraging more teams to try to win.

2024-10 - I like the idea of IR, but I believe this is too onerous. I doubt
I'd use it because of the uncarded player  provision/prohibition on
releasing the player. I think I'd much rather have those struck, but extend
the amount of time a player has to be IR to 10-12 weeks so it's only used
for the super long term injuries.

NJR Mike

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 3:09 PM Sean Sweda <sweda at ibl.org> wrote:

> comments on selected issues:
>
>
> 2024-02 / injury reduction
>
> If you want randomness with injuries then you have to accept that some
> players will go over their MLB injury day totals.  There are multiple ways
> to get good injury luck (you can never get hit by a wild play or roll one
> of the non-100% outcomes) whereas the only way to go over is to get hit
> multiple times.  I have a spreadsheet where I broke down the injury day
> totals from a full IBL season from a few seasons ago if anybody wants to
> see confirmation that players are more likely to go under their injury
> days.  Fundamentally, anything you do to mitigate players going over that
> doesn’t shift those days to players who avoided injury just results in
> fewer days missed overall.  Maybe that is the goal since everyone hates
> injuries, but let’s be clear that this change would make the current
> randomness even less likely to reproduce MLB results.
>
> One final point, durability is a skill and has value.  When you mitigate
> injuries you’re also reducing the value that a durable player provides over
> one with injury issues.
>
>
> 2024-03 / limit use of fatigued pitcher
>
> There are two ways a pitcher fatigues, hitting their max BF or giving up
> 5+ runs.  As others have commented, this proposal doesn’t really handle the
> latter case properly.  If your SP gets shelled early it seems unfair to be
> forced to remove him before he’s even reached the max BF on the card.
>
>
> 2024-04 / drop max usage to 125%
>
> I believe the original Constitution allowed player retention up to 150%
> (with 200% the overall limit), so this has already been changed once
> before.  One thing to consider is that the tighter the bands are for usage
> the more it matters who has the very best players.  I don’t know what the
> best settings are for optimal competitive balance, but we don’t currently
> seem to be in a situation where part-timers being over-used is a key to
> winning.
>
>
> 2024-07 / corner OF starts
>
> Very few MLB players have been played exclusively at one corner OF
> position in their career because of an actual limitation of their own
> ability.  The most obvious reason is a player with a bad arm being limited
> to LF, but the game already accounts for this with the +1 adjustment on
> throws to 3B from RF.  There are obviously lots of players who get moved
> between LF/RF based on their MLB team's decisions, why shouldn’t IBL teams
> have the same flexibility?
>
>
> 2024-09 / playoff tier based on wild card winner
>
> It appears that there have recently been teams in the hunt for wild card
> spots that try to avoid making the playoffs.  I’d hope that this rule
> change would change the calculus so that borderline teams would try to win.
> We had a similar rule for the covid season (7 teams made the playoffs).
>
>
> 2024-10 / IR
>
> It is a bunch of work to implement this so I’m somewhat ambivalent.  I do
> think the restrictions are sufficient such that it would not be used very
> often. If you use one of these IR spots you’re locking a player onto your
> roster (barring an off-season trade) until week 8 of the following season.
> I suspect an owner who used it whenever possible just for the extra roster
> spots would come to regret it in short order.
>
>
>
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