Outfielders eligibility rule

[RICHARDMILTER]

I apologize if I have mentioned this in an earlier post.

The original Strat-O-Matic rules and the CD- ROM both allow you to play CFs (such as Coco Crisp, Grady Sizemore, Willy Taveras) in both left and right fields even if they never appeared their in real life. I really wish TSN would adopt this rule that already exists in the other forms of Strat.

Any thoughts on this?

[maligned]

Yeah, the original rule allows you to play outfielders anywhere. CF is considered the most difficult position, followed by rightfield. Therefore, you could simply apply +1 to the rating of a leftfielder that you wanted to play in right or +2 if you wanted him in center. Or, you could move a rightfielder to center by adding +1. A centerfielder maintained the same rating everywhere (no improvement at other positions).
I wondered about this rule the first time I played online, but I haven't seen discussion about it. It seems to me that if you're going to allow RPs to pitch 200 innings and a 1B who plays one inning at 2B to have 2B eligibility, you wouldn't be doing the game a greater disservice by allowing the above outfielder rule.

[Ninersphan]

Would LOVE to see this implemented and I have argued for it since the game launched here on TSN, but so far to no avail. :cry:

[RICHARDMILTER]

Right on guys! I thought I was the only one who thought about this. There have been many times I have wanted to put Lofton, or Coco Crisp in LF but could not, because TSN does not allow this rule. I am not saying it is a HUGE shortcoming, but it sure would be nice to see this rule used. Thanks for the feedback.