i want to commend you for the well-written rant about the proposed changes to our lineup selections.
i gotta read these notices more carefully -- here i thought the problem was the blank lineup that led to walkovers and screwed up the other team's minutes.
that was a problem worth solving. instead, this new idea does not address it, but instead is working on taking away a very valuable option, especially at this level.
in addition to the complication of managing GS, important at any level, this league has some very clever coaches. i can think of two games where surprising lineups were a key to victory -- TKI taking down Dog River and a game In Your Face beat me, where he had matchups i couldn't stop. my experience taught me to be very wary of assigning player X a position when the other team may well be starting his all-star PG at PF and running an Inside Isolation. blank lineups gave me the confidence i wouldn't get caught. now that option is, not just disappearing, but will be gone.
ultimately, i can live with it if they give us a chance to handle minutes during the game. teams that have veterans tend to have players with high stamina, and the choices that will be left to us will force us, as it stands right now, to sacrifice several wins a year.
