by cristano1 » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:25 am
gates brown is priced at 5.02 million. Inherent in that price is that he will get 350ab against righty pitchers.
i have no issue with someone using gates brown for 350ab a year, because he is priced accordingly. i dont care that he batted 92 times in real life. the 92 is irrelevant. all that matters is, the owner of gates brown is using him how the pricing model intended. now, if someone found a way to make gates brown bat 1100 times a season, something for which he was not intended to be used for, i would be going apesh1t. i would consider that cheating.
now, we have christy mathewson S9* versus any one of those big rp. take murray as an example. murray and mathewson have the same era at an average park. but one costs 10.55m and the other 5m. as a rough estimate, mathewson is priced assuming he will pitch 320-350 innings a year. one can easily back into what murray was priced at. now when someone finds a way to exploit murray, they are gaining 6m in salary in using someone in a way he was not intended to be used.
the same is not true for gates brown. regardless of the number of ab he had in real life, his price reflects 350ab vs righty pitching in a regular strato league. so anyone drafting gates, as well as any other batter, is using him how he was intended (aka how he was priced). is that cheating? of course not.
super relievers are cheating, and dishonest. we all know that. it is shady. below the belt. garbage. call me what you will. slimeberg. whiny. i play the game fairly, as it was intended. i know how to implement the super reliever strategy with several of the big ones out there. ive posted exactly how to do it in this thread to get 350+ out of any R3 or R4 without sacrificing era. i choose not to do it. ive always thought it was straight up cheating. im going to post a message in the barnstormers finals asking those guys if they think it is cheating or fine. if no one there is offended, then i dont mind doing it myself. obviously for the extra 6 or 7 million free cap that it adds, its a no brainer. i was always always always under the assumption that it was nothing but cheating. id be interested to hear what the general barnstormers population thinks about this, rather than a few of petros cronies.
every single one of you in this league knows that murray et al was not priced at the 300ip that petro will get out of him. therefore, to loophole and game the system is cheating in my mind. if the rest of you dont see it the same way, then so be it.