ANNOUNCEMENT: New Rotation Rules!!

By majority vote, there are new rotation rules in place. FATIGUE will police who you pitch next. For most, this should not alter your 1-5 structure, but it will now allow you to go to a 4 man rotation if your ace can handle it (careful about injuries when fatigued!!), and a LOT of flexibility with your 40 man roster.

It also frees up the issue regarding flex scheduling, but it does also create a possible issue of seeing the same pitcher in a single 3 game series if a lot of flex scheduling happens in between.

My suggestion, flex schedule if you have to, but, by experience, it is much more exciting for yourself and the league if you follow the schedule. By all means, use flex if you have scheduling conflicts, or once or twice if bored, but, for the most part, follow the schedule.

Maybe a good rule of thumb is to only play one game using flex for the 2 series immediately following the current series. Trying not to venture to far into the future.

Thoughts?

I don't think there's going to be any good way of enforcing it. I know from experience that those who abuse flex scheduling regret it in the end as they wait for weeks for the league to catch up to them. I also have faith that the players of this league wants to be as real and exciting as possible.

Use flex if you have to and/or want to, but you'll realize yourself when you're abusing it by your sense of SIM BASEBALL and your wish to keep it real.

The flex is cool if u REALLY need 2 use it and sometimes u might need 2 but im sure most of the members will follow the schedule, it just ADDS another aspect of REALISM!!!!! Following the schedule is also EASIER so u DONT have 2 worry about the fatigue factor and your pitchers will get there 5 days REST!!!!!!!!!!!