Is it Okay to copy someones team???

[motherscratcher]

Yeah I cringed a little when I wrote the "unwritten rule" comment and wish I had left it out because it didn't really convey exactly what I was trying to get across.

I guess what I'm saying is that there is a difference between adapting someone elses strategy/approach vs just copying a complete team.

[Valen]

I usually get half or less of the players I put in for and most of the time am in bottom half of waivers. So how is it possible to copy an entire team? How many of the players that I like do you have to get before I accuse you of copying my team? Everyone knows who the appropriate preferable players are for almost any extreme park. So I would expect at least a dozen common targets. How many successes are you allowed before I brand you guilty?

[Valen]

I usually get half or less of the players I put in for and most of the time am in bottom half of waivers. So how is it possible to copy an entire team? How many of the players that I like do you have to get before I accuse you of copying my team? Everyone knows who the appropriate preferable players are for almost any extreme park. So I would expect at least a dozen common targets. How many successes are you allowed before I brand you guilty?

[motherscratcher]

13 :lol:

[george barnard]

[quote:a6030e34c1]I'll show my age. Before the West Coast there was the wishbone[/quote:a6030e34c1]

Man, if only the wishbone would make a comeback. There was something real elegant about a college football team that executed the wishbone with precision.

Showing my age too.

Bill

[Salty]

[quote:803b9af955="Valen"]I usually get half or less of the players I put in for and most of the time am in bottom half of waivers. So how is it possible to copy an entire team? How many of the players that I like do you have to get before I accuse you of copying my team? Everyone knows who the appropriate preferable players are for almost any extreme park. So I would expect at least a dozen common targets. How many successes are you allowed before I brand you guilty?[/quote:803b9af955]

I will give you an example:
We are in a couple of leagues together where Im playing in polo grounds, you are playing in some other park, say, Forbes.
(140 league) My rosters have Burroughs, Saberhagen, Garvey, Langston and Mcgee- atypical players at that cap there.
We start a 3rd league together, and Lo and behold you choose to be in Polo, and look who is on your roster; Burroughs, Saberhagen etc.

They didn't copy your team?
We chalk that up to 'we are going for the same targets'?

[drfreeze49]

My roster has Burroughs, Saberhagen, Garvey, Langston and Mcgee-

hey salt if I am in a league with you and I get any of those players...I'll give them to you for free :D You can have em...just sayin...

maybe thats why I don't do so well :D

[Salty]

LOL Vin,

I picked those players, precisely because most wouldn't use em there at that cap or in some cases at all.

No one should blink twice if I use Maris and you use Maris in a home run park, and Im not talking about a player here or there.

But thanks, who knows, those guys might just come in handy for me

:wink:

[Valen]

If you don't want Burroughs, Saberhagen, Garvey, Langston and Mcgee in this league where is the harm in someone else using them? And if you did want them then you should put them on your draft card high enough to get them. Before the draft every card is a free agent.

I assume none of those were on our original draft card which likely means you picked them up in waivers. A favorite tactic of mine is to keep track of who is being picked up in waivers. Logic is twofold. First assumption is they are worth having if they were drafted in waivers. Second assumption is if they were available in waivers they should be autodraftable at bottom of a draft card. That would not be copying someone's team it would be stategy to get useable players at bottom of draft card so you could more precisely target remaining positions at top of draft card.

[nevdully's]

For goodness sakes man...It's NOT about whether or not he wanted the same players. It's NOT about whether or not the copying owner is successful. It's NOT even about anyone's rights....It's not even really so much about proof, but the simple "hypothetical" question.

How do you feel about someone copying your team PLAYER FOR PLAYER right down to the damn park!

Valen would you not mind at all?

Would you feel flattered?

Would you perhaps mind if it did step on your draft card?

"If" for whatever reason you asked the copying owner about his "intent" (his intent, not whether his execution was good or not at securing all his picks) Would you be upset if he lied to you?