Limit on transactions?

I really don't understand why this is allowed. It's totally unrealistic to have somebody dropping and picking up players like this.....

https://www.pennantchase.com/league..

Not to be a jerk, but why do you care? It really is affecting nothing because other owners are not exploiting bad moves, it's basically when your a crappy Chess Player, you don't make moves, you push wood

Next time he cuts Aaron send a message out to the whole league to put a claim in.

Yeah. I know. It happened too quick to snatch him up. I did burn him on a couple lesser guys but that would have been a nice score

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Yes that has been gbacci's take on it. Like I said I just don't like how totally unrealistic it is. I guess if nobody else cares I have live with it.

What is the purpose of it?

I don't know what the purpose is. The only thing i could figure is its a way to expand the roster by constantly swapping out players. Maybe to somehow gain an advantage in match ups for the next game?

This seems a petty complaint but to diffuse the issue and hopefully nip mockery in the bud,..

This just in from the More Than One Way To Skin A Cat Department:

I play this game in conjunction with another template, with an emphasis on the words 'play' and 'game'. If I play this game the way I choose and get my money's worth of 'wood pushing' entertainment out of it, what's the harm? And by 'money's worth' I mean that I pay monthly for my enjoyment here: I don't freeload and then play choosy beggar and ask for changes to a product I don't support financially.

I employ a 'revolving door strategy' that uses the free agency pool much the same way major league general managers use a minor league system, which in their case is comprised of more than the three players allowed here. If that looks to you like OCD micro-managing on the transaction page, congratulations: you don't have to shell out for my expensive-but-informative podcast about the offbeat ways I choose to amuse myself while indulging in my past-time of choice.

The Aaron thing? I dropped him by accident because when you're making roster changes the SIM lists players to be booted alphabetically and occasionally guys like Aaron and Abernathy grab a cup of coffee in the minors by mistake and usually return quickly without the world coming to an end. Yeah, sometimes the Aarons and Abernathys get snatched away while at the coffee shop but sometimes I similarly snatch players dropped - inadvertently or not - by other owners if it suits my diabolical ways. Thems the breaks and they cut both ways.

In leagues where changing a player's year is allowed up until game 140, I'll occasionally drop and then reclaim a player after game 140 if the year I'd been using isn't his default year and I'd rather he go back to that default year for the homestretch. Why players can't have their stats changed after game 140 in those kinds of leagues kinda puzzles me but not enough to want to clamor for a change.

None of these strategies are illegal, illogical or, one would think, cause for anyone to get their knickers in a twist and go crying to the commissioner.

However, if Guy wants to limit transactions, so be it. I've been here since year one and agree with the overwhelming majority of adjustments he's made over the years... including the time, years back, when he upped rosters so that owners could have three protected minor leaguers instead of two.

But I protesteth too much. Play ball... with an emphasis on the word 'play'...

I agree with your post nuroc, my response is that others in the league should “play” to try and get you at your “game” as opposed to say posting about it.

Well I had thought I was wasting a lot of time on this site so that about seals it for. **** you all

We all probably spend too much time on this site. What better testimonial for a great product could one ask for?

Seriously?? To say “**** you all” because we didn’t agree with you, pretty harsh no?

Yeah that definitely was unnecessary, just sayin'

I’m still a bit at a loss why this matters. Why not stash a guy in the minors if you don’t want him getting picked up? Auto Leagues are not highly regulated, it’s like fantasy football, someone can add and drop at will. These aren’t leagues with long term contracts or something. I suppose there could be a few day waiver period or something, but that’s usually to prevent a good player from being dropped and picked up. In these examples these guys are unwanted players that nobody is picking up.

Again if I’m missing something about this I would like to understand.

I honestly don't understand the furor, I don't see anyone getting shafted or any evidence of collusion, no harm no foul

It seems to me Eric was just annoyed that I was doing something unconventional to his way of thinking. He probably doesn't care much for the names I come up with for my teams, either. That's his right, just as it's my right to shout 'Vive la difference' and play in a way that works for me while abiding by the rules as I understand them.

I think he over-reacted and when I over-reacted in return and nobody sided with his position he decided to take his ball and go home after supposedly putting us all in our place by telling us to xxxx off.

It doesn't have to be like that. He's a competitive player and his well-managed teams are doing better than mine in the leagues we're in, so why not stick around for bragging rights? All he'd have to do is avoid looking at the transaction page if a lot of activity there disturbs him.

Insert 'Peace' emoji of choice...

p.s. one last thing about one of many reasons for adding and dropping a lot of players:

In leagues where changing seasons is allowed, sometimes you have to drop one player to pick up another to find out if the new guy indeed ranks sufficiently higher than his default season with a year change. As an example, check out one of the guys in the thread that started all this brouhaha: Ted Wilks. He's a humdrum choice for a reliever in his default year (1949) but has significantly more potential value as a decent stopgap starter (1940), especially as the season progresses and the pool of good available starters gets depleted. You can't see the actual spike in his rank as a starter, however, without first dropping a player so that you can put him on your roster and switch seasons.

There are usually at least a few players like this hiding in the brush in every league and, again, you have to do a lot of drop-and-add transactions to verify your 'homework'.
Having to go through such an adventurous process in public view on the transaction page doesn't make one either a culprit or a public nuisance unless someone arbitrarily chooses to view them that way.

I owe everyone an apology for telling you all to F*** off. I was just annoyed at being accused of being a deadbeat. I do donate a couple times a year but we are on a fixed income so i cant maintain a full yearlong membership.

I should have been more tactful in bringing up this issue with the pickups. I don't blame Nuroc for getting angry at me.

I really do need to cut back. I'm just getting too obsessed with this site.