If you're in a world, and an owner is playing Catchers at SS, are you calling it out? 7Mantle7 world.

Depends -- if I care about the World and I know I'll be heard, I'd call it out on World chat. However, if I have the feeling that me calling it out will just get me harassed or berated, I might just send a note to the commissioner and see if he does anything. If he doesn't do anything, it is time to decide if you want to stay in that type of World where that type of BS is going down.

From the silence of the commissioner I'm guessing he doesn't care. Which means I'll be one and done there.

Meh... PC is kind of a debated subject I think I ran a SS at catcher for most of the year one season, made the playoffs as a WC and broke the SB record. I personally think running SS in the 70s and 60s and CF in those ranges is more egregious,

Posted by McGirkTheJer on 11/28/2024 1:24:00 AM (view original):
Meh... PC is kind of a debated subject I think I ran a SS at catcher for most of the year one season, made the playoffs as a WC and broke the SB record. I personally think running SS in the 70s and 60s and CF in those ranges is more egregious,

That’s true that people have figured out that you can play SS at C and still be competitive. However, unless I’m misreading the post, this is a C being played at SS which isn’t viable. Like tlowster said, it’s worth sending a note to the commish in case the only reason he hasn’t said anything is because he hasn’t noticed it’s happening

It's playing Catchers at SS. And he continues to state he's not tanking, and no players available, both bullshit.

No legitimate reason to play a C at SS at the ML level. For some reason the Sim will place a C almost anywhere before any other position player when optimizing in the minors. Very annoying but easily corrected. The fact the commish is doing it, and if he isn't responding, then it's a world where anything goes. If that's not what you're looking for, then it's time to move on.

Sorry for misunderstanding the question. Let me ask, what is the teams record?

I know many feel that there are different tiers to tanking, but tanking is tanking IMO so playing baddies out of position or allowing pitchers to get gassed, or running guys with 0 speed and 0 baserunning and setting them to be aggressive etc... its all the same.

To be clear I'm a proponent of playing by the rules, but I think its human nature to go up to the limit. We can adjust for that by setting higher limits but if the guy is winning 55/60/65 games while playing a catcher at SS then all the more power to him.

The guys who sign players for offense only and ignore defense are usually in the lower half of overall standings. The game really pays off for good defense

You can literally find one in free agency and post it to World chat.

20-67, and on a 12 game losing streak.

On the one hand, that's egregious. On the other hand, he's played 200 seasons with a .400 career win%, very few playoff games and no titles. So even if he is a habitual tanker, he doesn't seem to be able to transfer that tanking into anything meaningful. I've noticed there are a handful of long time HBD owners that just never seem to grasp the basic concepts of the game. Usually, the problem with those guys isn't that their teams get really good. It's that they get #1 picks and then trade them for trash to exploitative owners.

Whether it's intentional tanking or just really poor play, neither good for the league. Tanking is obv. bad. But even if it's just poor play by an owner that doesn't know any better, if that sort of thing is left unchecked it allows others to do the same while saying "well so-and-so did it, why shouldn't I?" or like I mentioned above, encourages higher skilled owners who don't care about the health of and parity of the league to snipe the top talent from them through lop-sided trades.

See the thing about blatant tanking is, it's EASY. Requires no second level thinking. And the game doesn't want you to tank; if you just ran out a AAA team in the majors it would probably go about .400. So you have to do obviously gross things to break it. Again, not hard.
But as brian says, what do you do then? I've seen owners go through multiple season tanks and eventually leave. New guy steps in and picks up a team with a fairly loaded minor league system. Just last season I saw an owner drop $50M on a major-league ready IFA... you have to plan that out to do it... then not re-up for the new season.

I've looked at his other teams, seems he likes doing that, playing people out of position. I'll always call that **** out, it's bull. Plus pitchers that have no place on an ML roster. And it just doesn't effect that team, but all the others that actually care and try that could miss the post season because of their actions. Maybe I'm old, but that irritates me.

I noticed that he released (released!) a good fielding SS earlier in the season. Sure he can't hit but he can play the field. I'm always skeptical of any vet owner that releases a player that has a contract.
He's paying almost $4m this season for a SS to play in the field, just for another team.