Would it be possible to have last years World Series reps pick the bench for the allstar game?

I imagine there'd be a lot of problems with that:

- What if one of the previous WS reps doesn't re-up for the following season?
- I've never made a WS. But if I did, I wouldn't want to have to choose the bench the following season. I'm a part-time student with a full-time job and a girlfriend. I don't necessarily have the time to do the research required to make a fair assessment (comparing all relevant stats, by position, both offensive and defensive, etc...).
- You'd have owners that felt slighted one season, if they make the WS, deliberately leaving deserving players out the next season for revenge.
- You could have owners putting their own older, undeserving players in to beef up that player's Hall of Fame resume.
- Not to mention, Customer Support would be getting flooded with tickets by people claiming bias just because their guys didn't make the cut.

Since All-Star selections are a factor in a player's Hall of Fame candidacy, I just don't think that decision should be left in the hands of just two (out of 32) owners every season.

Yes, sounds like a horrible idea.

On par with vetoes based on ADV?

Posted by MikeT23 on 4/30/2012 10:47:00 AM (view original):
On par with vetoes based on ADV?

This might be a wee bit worse.

I'm not sure about that.  But I know who'd make my handpicked A/S team.    My players. 

Right.  And that's what makes it slightly worse.  It can be more directly manipulated.

But it doesn't affect gameplay.   Anything that affects gameplay is worse.

Worse for the game, yes.  But not necessarily worse in terms of being a horrible idea on it's own merits. 

At least the veto suggestion is attempting to address (though, extremely poorly), a perceived problem on the part of the suggestor.  This one is just plain dumb.

Sorry guys, i forgot anything that creates a little bit more excitement is a bad idea. I mean I forgot how non arbitrary the hall of fame voting is. Noone favors their former players.

Posted by stevehoggett on 4/30/2012 1:45:00 PM (view original):
Sorry guys, i forgot anything that creates a little bit more excitement is a bad idea. I mean I forgot how non arbitrary the hall of fame voting is. Noone favors their former players.

With the HOF, my vote is only 6% of the necessary votes needed for an induction of one of my former players.

With your All-Star suggestion, two owners get 100% of the votes for a number of players.

Surely you can discern the difference.

Posted by stevehoggett on 4/30/2012 1:45:00 PM (view original):
Sorry guys, i forgot anything that creates a little bit more excitement is a bad idea. I mean I forgot how non arbitrary the hall of fame voting is. Noone favors their former players.

Not sure I see where this creates any excitement...  The All-star game is a non-event in HBD, most treat it as an off-day prior to the DITR fiasco.

I know I'd be all a-twitter waiting for last season's WS owner to not choose his players over mine.   I've got butterflies just posting about it!!!!

I guess I could turn around your overused arguments. If you're in a league where you have to worry that someone will select their entire team then maybe you are in the wrong league.

That would be a good argument if A/S teams were anything more than window dressing.  They aren't.    Putting your entire team as A/S back-ups would be funny and wouldn't affect gameplay one iota.