Sim 15: August 21st thru August 31st

Try my export now?

Shit this would of helped before I went fire sale lol....Jk guys look forward to my next tank...will see you all again in ootp 16 when I come out of my gopher hole.

Suspend 5 year rule, just in time for White Sox to suck... Does that mean no more lottery also?

Possible, since now Mike runs a good team that can't jump up 10 spots every year.

Bang, bang... Shots fired at the intersection of TSO and The Dugout.

I knew he was having some good starts lately, but dang! Simmons better get on his stuff to not get outdone.

Hey someone on the Reds did well. Not to bad for the Rule 5 pick. Also won rookie of the month.

Aw man! One more sim that I didn't account for in my streak! We can do it though! #WINdians #Believeland #RollTribe #TribeTimeNow

Also, Topper made a nice Major League debut. He booted Dale Chaworth out of the rotation and may very make the playoff rotation should we hold on.

Wasn't Chatty doing well? Was looking forward to facing so many ex-Angels in a potential series: McIlvride, Chatworth, Clayton Frazier, Danny McNeil, and Soto.

Damn. You should trade with me more often.

Can someone link statslab here? Also, when it's last been updated. Thanks

He was skating by really. His FIP is bad and he had a sub 4 ERA. So he was really just kind of average

Meh, if Knowles wants to tank, then let him. Tanking is incredibly stupid in baseball, theres a reason why the top teams in the league have never had to do it.

My issue isn't the tanking, it's the frequency of promotion/relegation. Nippon is struggling as is - the infusion of new blood in 15 should help, but I want to incentive them to be active and do well. We've seen that very few teams will go in the red, as there are always trade partners willing to take bad contracts for the right price. You would have to be totally negligent or inactive to go in the red twice in a row.

Either way, I don't like the idea of reassessing if people are tanking as we go along. What constitutes 'tanking' in this case? You need to quantify things and lay them out clearly, otherwise there will be unrest and confusion. Draw a hard line one way or the other. Reassess the promotion/relegation structure or get rid of Nippon altogether. NeuroticTruth ty5oke Drifterbub

I do appreciate all the work you guys have put in and will support the league no matter what, I just feel compelled to voice concerns.

I'm not really understanding this. Are they two separate leagues with no FA interaction, or just both leagues with no relegation/promotion attached to it so people don't think of one league as being above the other?

I like the idea of not making someone eligible for lottery more than 3 years in a row. That way, their pick would be placed after all of the lottery teams, but before playoff teams.

Four-five years? Maybe their first round pick comes at the end of first round. Maybe they can't sign international Free Agents.

It would eliminate the incentive of tanking.

Just throwing out ideas.