Roster lock poll

[Oregon Three Lions of Madison]

By a vote of 12-8 beginning next season we will be locking rosters 5 minutes before each players game.

[Deleted]

I think there are going to be a lot of issues doing this. This was the dumbest thing we voted for yet and makes no sense whatsoever. This would be very unfair to certain teams and is stupid. So an example would be one team has 3 in the Sunday night game and they're up .291-.290 in average, they can switch them out just so they can win that category. This is just ridiculous and most that voted for this, it will come back to bite them and the only people to blame are those who voted for this.

[Ft. Myers Conquistadors]

Not everyone is going to be happy with each outcome (myself : losers playoff), but the majority has ruled. Democracy is a good thing.

[Oregon Three Lions of Madison]

I mentioned it before, but I am pretty certain that for the most part that won't be an issue. You can't put a guy in your lineup that has already played which means that you would have to have others at the same position that are on one of the Sunday night teams that aren't playing that evening. You CAN'T have more than six players on your bench, so you can't just take guys out of your lineup because your roster would be illegal. You have to have someone to replace them with.

[Oregon Three Lions of Madison]

You can also use examples from the other side. My stud left last nights game with back spasms and is listed as day-to-day. No info is available before the first game of the day, so I play it safe and sit him. He ends up playing and going 3-5 with 2 bombs, 4 ribbies and 3 runs. At the end of the week I lose HRs by 1, Ribbies by 2 and runs by 2. That's 3 losses for me that would have been prevented if I we had the later lock times. Ultimately, I think that it will be rare that the stars align in a bad way with this rule(as stated above), and even if they do from time to time you will probably get close to a net zero with the good fortune with examples like I just mentioned.

I will say that I did almost switch my vote after reading the post Kris made. His layout of the strategic aspect of the early lock times was persuasive. That to me was more of a reason to change my vote over the Sunday night issue for the reasons I've already mentioned. 

[San Fran Earthquakes]

I don't see the why this rule change is so bad. I have this rule in a number of leagues I'm in and it has never caused a problem and if anything, it adds another layer of strategy. It's very rare to come down to a simple .290 v. .291 batting average on the last game of the week on Sunday with both teams having a hitter involved where it will matter.