[IBL] Ballot items

[Russell Peltz]

My thoughts on some of the ballot items:

01) I'm in favor of having the option to allow a team a waiver priority
exemption if results
will be late due to extraordinary factors out of the team's control.
Currently there is no
mechanism for the Commissioner to approve games being played late, even
when it would benefit
the league for games to be played in the proper order with correct usage
and injury information.

02) In my experience, players with a large number of injury days get
penalized excessively when
they get injured multiple times.  This would partially mitigate that while
not removing all of
the risk of playing them.

03) One of the biggest unrealistic aspects of our game, and an exploit, is
letting a pitcher
pitch almost an entire game while fatigued to get him usage.  We've had
pitchers throw complete
games while giving up 35 runs (moment of silence for Sun-Woo Kim, 2002).
That was bad enough
back then, but in today's MLB most pitchers are not even allowed to go over
100 pitches.
I think some sort of hard limit is needed to prevent this unrealistic
abuse, and allowing
pitchers to go through the lineup one time while fatigued would be a good
limit while still
allowing some flexibility for a guy who gets fatigued early.  Even if he
gave up 6 earned runs
in the first nine batters, he would still be allowed to go through the
lineup a second time if
you want.  In real life he would probably be yanked immediately.

04) I've always thought having limits +/- 25% would make more sense than
75% and 133%.
Incidentally in the case of full time starting pitchers, +33% is excessive
and this would
mitigate it somewhat.

05) I'm in favor. Removing a starter after he goes through the lineup twice
is pretty
normal manager behavior these days, so we should be able to do that without
using up
a pitcher start.

07) I'm leaning toward yes on this one.  There isn't much difference
between playing LF and
RF.  I can't imagine a team with two left fielders being forced to trade
one because they
need a right fielder.  They would just move one of the guys.  I do think
our fielding rating
system should take into account where the guy actually played, though.  For
example, if
someone played full time in LF and very little in RF, their RF range rating
should be a
grade or two lower.

08) Yes yes yes. Concurrent injuries should not be added together.  A
player with more than
one injury does not have to wait for one to heal before the other one
starts to heal.

09) I'm leaning no on this one.  Draft tiers were designed to rank how
often teams have been
in contention, and winning a Wild Card spot definitely separates a team
from those that have
not.  Wild Card teams are often stronger than at least one division winner.
I might support
a similar rule if it counted Wild Card losers as 1/2 of a playoff spot, or
if we had a
more granular point system giving more points for the further into the
playoffs a team gets.

Thanks for reading this far.

-Rusty
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