A few enquiries - is there a "super reliever" rule?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:42 amI've had a few enquiries as to whether or not there's a tournament rule against "super relievers". For example, is there a rule that imposes a point penalty for having a relief pitcher pitch more than 200 innings?
The answer is, "no". There was a rule like this a few years ago, but there was no super reliever rule in last year's tournament, and there's no rule this year either.
When I started last year's tournament, it was an unofficial tournament, and was later adopted officially by strat. I wanted to keep things as simple as I could. I thought that it would be difficult (time consuming) to check for offenders on a super reliever rule. I also reasoned that it didn't seem to be an issue in regular game play.
As a general observation, I don't think it would have had any offenders in last year's tournament. There might be one super reliever occurrence possibly this year (so far), maybe. There aren't many pitchers in the card set that are a big issue for a super-reliever, since most of the best relievers are R1, and there aren't any high-priced pure relievers who are R3. The classic a few years ago was Kuo for the Dodgers, who was a high-priced R3 pure reliever with a great card.
I'm posting this now because I've had a couple of enquiries recently by PM, and I thought I should publicize the question and my answer, at least in a general way.
GBrookes, commish
The answer is, "no". There was a rule like this a few years ago, but there was no super reliever rule in last year's tournament, and there's no rule this year either.
When I started last year's tournament, it was an unofficial tournament, and was later adopted officially by strat. I wanted to keep things as simple as I could. I thought that it would be difficult (time consuming) to check for offenders on a super reliever rule. I also reasoned that it didn't seem to be an issue in regular game play.
As a general observation, I don't think it would have had any offenders in last year's tournament. There might be one super reliever occurrence possibly this year (so far), maybe. There aren't many pitchers in the card set that are a big issue for a super-reliever, since most of the best relievers are R1, and there aren't any high-priced pure relievers who are R3. The classic a few years ago was Kuo for the Dodgers, who was a high-priced R3 pure reliever with a great card.
I'm posting this now because I've had a couple of enquiries recently by PM, and I thought I should publicize the question and my answer, at least in a general way.
GBrookes, commish