The Free Trial Exhibition Leagues, with a total of 10 games, have very extreme exhaustion rates for pitcher and players--at least ten times higher than in the Open and theme Leagues. But this is not disclosed to owners. I naturally expected the exact opposite: with only ten games in the "season," no pitcher or player would ever get exhausted to the point of not being playable.
I was rudely surprised and shocked when, after my pitcher Pedro Martinez '94, was given very low red number after his first game, in which he pitched fewer than five innings. In 1994, Martinez pitched 206 innings; how could he possibly get completed exhausted and disabled after pitching only 4.2 innings in one game?
This complete insanity continued for all ten games, with full-time players and pitcher being given low red exhaustion numbers after a single game or less. During most of the season, half my pitchers and half my bench were exhausted and forced to rest as they were unplayable.
I think it is a very bad policy to have such very extreme exhaustion rates in the free trial exhibition seasons. Most owners who join those leagues are new potential members, and many must be terribly frustrated and repulsed by these insane practices, and discouraged from ever purchasing any open or theme league teams.
But if WIS wants to apply such very extreme exhaustion rates in these ten-game free trial leagues, it should at least disclose to the owners that it will be doing so. Knowledge of that would greatly affect pitcher and player selections.