While I always loved the challenge of NL only and still do, I see a couple major advantages to a mixed league: 1) We don't have to worry about losing players to the other league and we don't have to decide how to distribute players coming over. 2) It gives us more players to watch and a reason to actually watch an AL game. Even though I really tried to watch both leagues over the years, I always found myself leaning toward NL games. Not that it was a bad thing, but if we have an incentive to watch the other league too, that would be OK.
On the other hand, I don't want to make contradictory statements, but there's a large part of my mindset that hopes we league a lot of the things we had in place the same because other than the bickering and end of the year players trades, a lot was going well in our league.
Just my thoughts on both sides of our possible options.
I agree...I think adding the AL wouldn't change the rules that much but we won't have to worry about losing the NL players that became a point of contention.
I tried to post this on the blog today, but I screwed up when I first joined the blog through an Arabic website and now all the labels are in Arabic, plus I can never remember my google password. Here's what I was going to say:
I can go either way, but prefer NL-only because that's what I'm used to. (Change comes hard for us old-timers.) Part of the fun under our previous format was that by knowing who the backup to the backup of the third basemen for the Reds you could maybe gain an advantage. Using both leagues, the advantage will be in figuring out which 8 or 9 of the starting third basemen, out of 30, will produce the best and then making sure that you get as many of the top 2 or 3 at each position as possible.
While I always loved the challenge of NL only and still do, I see a couple major advantages to a mixed league:
ReplyDelete1) We don't have to worry about losing players to the other league and we don't have to decide how to distribute players coming over.
2) It gives us more players to watch and a reason to actually watch an AL game. Even though I really tried to watch both leagues over the years, I always found myself leaning toward NL games. Not that it was a bad thing, but if we have an incentive to watch the other league too, that would be OK.
On the other hand, I don't want to make contradictory statements, but there's a large part of my mindset that hopes we league a lot of the things we had in place the same because other than the bickering and end of the year players trades, a lot was going well in our league.
Just my thoughts on both sides of our possible options.
Typo in my previous post: change "league" to "leave".
ReplyDeleteI agree...I think adding the AL wouldn't change the rules that much but we won't have to worry about losing the NL players that became a point of contention.
ReplyDeleteI offered to post this for Ted and he said OK.
ReplyDeleteMark,
I tried to post this on the blog today, but I screwed up when I first joined the blog through an Arabic website and now all the labels are in Arabic, plus I can never remember my google password. Here's what I was going to say:
I can go either way, but prefer NL-only because that's what I'm used to. (Change comes hard for us old-timers.) Part of the fun under our previous format was that by knowing who the backup to the backup of the third basemen for the Reds you could maybe gain an advantage. Using both leagues, the advantage will be in figuring out which 8 or 9 of the starting third basemen, out of 30, will produce the best and then making sure that you get as many of the top 2 or 3 at each position as possible.
Ted