[USML Announce] Two Rule Proposals

[Richard E. Robbins]

Heck, it has been several years since I last tried tilting at this
particular wind-mill.  

As I recall, Buddha raised this possibility last year, so I thought I'd
throw it out there again.

-- Rich
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Two Rule Proposals

Greetings;
     I hereby respectively cast my annual "no" vote for both proposals.
   Rick

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From: springkerb at aol.com
> I think it would be very hard to craft a rule that would accomplish 
> that purpose without skewing the exiting rules.
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> Mark
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> From: Richard Robbins <RERobbins at iTinker.net>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 6:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Two Rule Proposals
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> That's a really interesting idea Jim.  I'm very curious about what 
> people think about that possibility.  I'm not sure how I feel about 
> it.  My initial thought is that we should not allow transferred FAAB 
> to balance an otherwise imbalanced trade.  I say that just to be 
> conservative.  I offered the proposal merely because I thought it was 
> interesting and because it might add a fun element to the game.  If it 
> could be used to diminish the force of our existing rules re imbalanced
trades that might be too much.  It's an intriguing thought though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Barrett <chicagojab at yahoo.com>
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:51:12
> To:USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Two Rule Proposals
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> I'm in favor of the FAAB fund trading but have a questionB - 
> should/can FAAB funds be used to help balance trades?
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> I'm opposed to the NL stats proposal. 
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> "Richard E. Robbins" <RERobbins at iTinker.net> wrote:   
> I've got two rule proposals.B  I'll leave it to Packer Fan Mark to call
for a 
> vote at the appropriate time.  
> The first is that we permit FAAB funds to be traded (which I'm proposing
on a 
> whim) and the second is to count in-season statistics of players traded to
the 
> NL. 
> Here is the text to implement each.  
> Proposal b