Starting with the first scrimmages of this season, blank lineups are finally a thing of the past. Some lazy managers had started sending out incomplete lineups to their coaches who did their best to manage around this incomplete information, but it didn’t really feel like basketball anymore, and the fans started complaining. Now, if a manager sets a lineup with three or more blank starter positions, the coach will declare the lineup invalid and make up a new lineup using a fuller roster.
In S30 news (223143.36), it said, Starting with the first scrimmages of this season, blank lineups are finally a thing of the past. Some lazy managers had started sending out incomplete lineups to their coaches who did their best to manage around this incomplete information, but it didn’t really feel like basketball anymore, and the fans started complaining. Now, if a manager sets a lineup with three or more blank starter positions, the coach will declare the lineup invalid and make up a new lineup using a fuller roster.