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I'll back Montana up on this one. I think it is cheesy and has been discussed at length in TFP leagues before. It kind of violates 'the spirit of the game'. I look at it like regular baseball. You would not, and practically, could not, drop a pitcher just because he has one start scheduled in a week and pick up another one because he has two. Then the next week you drop him and pick up the one you dropped earlier. The size of the rosters allows you to stockpile enough pitchers to have plenty of starts throughout the week. What happens is in the final weeks of the season, active managers start adding and dropping their pitchers literally everyday. It does as has been stated - pad the K and possibly wins and sacrifices ERA, WHIP. Montana, you're idea of adding a negative stat for losses would sort of work but then you would give up one stat (losses) to increase two (wins,K's). I like the gentleman's agreement that there be no 'pitch and ditch' and that the commissioner be the arbiter of what is too much. Everyone just wants a fair game and there has never been an attempt to not allow someone to improve their team. Just MVHO.
Oh, and don't be hating on my Rays. We will be very much improved this year. We have almost doubled our payroll and our bullpen will be much better. We lost 12 games last year when leading going into the 9th. Ouch.
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