Posted by tecwrg on 6/1/2012 10:24:00 AM (view original):
Any time you have to make do with less resources, it's inherently more complicated.
I disagree with that blanket statement, as I don't think it is that black and white. First off, currenlty demotion penalities decrease, but do not eliminate the full use of your 40 man roster. Removing the demotion penalty would remove any barriers and would no doubt increase the practice. However, consider the fact that if the barrier was removed it would open up another faucet of the game that would require a equivalent amount of resource management. You would have to decide, do I spend $3mm on those two guys left in free agency to bounce back and forth between the bullpen as needed, or do I go after that $6mm stud releiver instead? Or wow, look that low dur hitting machine that no one normally would have signed, now has a bidding war for him in free agency...do I want to invest my money in him now that the market has deemed he is worth more? Do I want to have a bunch of guys at AAA who have their clock ticking? Or how about that jack wagon who just joined the league, put his salary budget at max, put everything else at 6, overspent on every free agent, and is trying to buy his way to a title? My team that I have spent 6 season building through the draft and IFA, and has a very strong minor league system, now can fully utilize my strengths against this one season and gone jackass.
Again, letting us fully utilize our 40 man roster (and let's be realisitc here, we are only talking about a few players...maybe 30 usable players at most), would more accurately reflect real life (yes I know this is a game and not real life), and would reward the people who play this game properly. it would add an extra layer of strategy and, yes, resource management. Its not dumbing down the game in my opinion.
6/1/2012 12:00 PM (edited)