Is it Okay to copy someones team???

[216 Stitches]

[quote:b80081ddcf="gkhd11a"]Also on music there is an entire genre of musicians where the musicians do not create anything on there own and people crowd in to hear the best, at bars pubs or festivals, they are called "cover bands" there was a Beatles cover band that came to Chicago and sold out 7 days in a row at $75 a seat and I don't believe they did anything original.[/quote:b80081ddcf]

I recently went to see Yes and Styx play in concert. The lead singer
of Yes has gone his separate ways with the band. And the singer they
got to replace him was found by being the lead in a Yes cover band -- livin' the dream.

Joke told over and over at the gate: I guess we don't need to card you
for alcohol -- if you even heard of these bands, you gotta be old enough
to drink.

[216 Stitches]

Shouldn't this thread be called:

"Is it okay to copy someone else's Roster?"

Or are they also copy your lineup, your settings (as far as they
could guess) your defensive subs, and so forth?

There are some things they simply can't copy, that being the
level of competition and make up of the league. Not that that
matters too much in the context of your current discussion.

[rburgh]

I set out to copy a team once. But I decided I didn't like one of the starters, so I changed him out. That left me with a little extra cash, so I made a change in the OF. The guy I wanted there put me a little over, so I made another change. And so on. By the time I got done, I think the only guy I had left was the batboy.

I have a team currently doing very well in Minute Maid, where my rotation is a RH who is better against L, and three LHP. Why? because my league is full of lefty parks and lefty hitters.

Copy that one, somebody. Please!

[gkhd11a]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4YQkrUCE80[/url]

[nevdully's]

This is kinda like being up by 10 runs in the 8th and stealing second and third...No rule against it.....just generally frowned upon and not often done.

[rburgh]

I think that worrying about someone stealing your team on this site is akin to worrying that someone else will be dealt the ace of spades in your next hold'em hand, after you just had it twice in a row.

[13Baseballs]

[quote:39a93415d8="nevdullyjr."][size=18:39a93415d8]Taking someone's screen name is wrong. It's like SOM identity theft... [/size:39a93415d8]


:lol: :lol: :lol:[/quote:39a93415d8]


Not 3 Nev's... I quit...

[FUDU]

[quote:451ee70298="motherscratcher"]I don't know. It's legal to copy, I guess, but I think there is a bit of an unwritten rule not to do it, especially if you end up in the same league as the manager who's team you're copying. If there wasn't something at least a little wrong with it then there would have been no need for the guy who did it to lie about it.

I don't now what kind of satisfaction you'd get out of it anyway.

My first team was a mess. I had no idea what I was doing. Before the season started I threw it up on the board and the guys here pretty much changed the whole team. I ended up going 92-70 and losing in game 7 of the world series. But, especially during the playoffs, I kind of had a guilty feeling the the team wasn't mine and I was kind of cheating the other guys.

Since then, I've asked for pointers, but I've not constructed a team on the boards like that first one. I feel like my teams are mine.

Now, I do admit to looking very closely at other teams that are posted in threads, even to the point of printing them out to study them and compare them. I like to see what players are used routinely in what parks and who plays well/poorly. I have excel spreadsheets with a few teams in construction and a bunch of players with differeing salaries that might work for particular parks that I can put in and out of a lineup. But, I don't consider that copying as much as just doing research.

Maybe that's a gray area. I don't know.[/quote:451ee70298]

I never really felt like that was your team either.

Heeheeeheee

IMO the whole copying thing is overblown for a few reasons:

First technically there is no "law" against it in our world of Strat, despite it having the unwritten rule feel to it.

Second, not only would it be very difficult to prove (that it was done with intention or malcontent) but I think it would be damn near impossible to pull off seeing as the roster size is large enough to make the odds of obtaining all the desired players pretty low. Personally I wouldn't want to exert the effort in even trying it.

EOD though mimic-ing the approach of a good manager in Strat is IMO not only very common but a smart move to speed up the learning curve. The game is overwhelming enough that seeking advice, then applying what you've learned (sorry if I come off as a Top Gun instructor) in the fashion of mimic-ing is smart.

Matter of fact now I'm a bit jealous of the lack of incoming PMs asking for MY advice.