Position eligibility question - just how stupid is this rule (1 Viewer)

[elguapo07]

10 team 5x5 with 20 games at a position required for eligibility . Last year does not matter just this year and you need 1 game played by May 1st and  20 by June 15h to qualify.  So for week's 1 thru 10 Bregman was a SS yet this week he's 3b only and can't go back to SS until he reaches 20.  I won't even get into Kendrick who has played nearly 50 games in the field and plays in the NL yet is DH only right now.  Didn't think that was possible but it is.

Per the Commish the strict games played limit is to prevent hoarding yet our bench policy is 1 bench spot per position - so everyone can only have 1C 1 SS etc on their bench - so that basically prevents hoarding. 

Anyone care to unpack for me just how messed up this rule is as it makes no sense to me and my proposal to revist the rule gets met with a "quit your #####in this rule has been in place for 20yrs"

 

[Gally]

Well,  you should quit your #####ing mid season if the rule has been in place for 20 years.  It was known going in that this was the case (doesn't make it a good rule but it makes it that you shouldn't be #####ing about it now).   Nothing can be done to change it mid season but I would definitely bring it up to change in the off season.  It seems strange that a player would lose eligibility part way through a season.  Every league I have ever been in keeps eligibility and then gains as the season goes on.  Never do you lose the eligibility. 

This makes no sense (losing eligibility) because you drafted/or signed a guy based on his eligibility and then all of a sudden that is gone.  Stupid.  However, if this was the known rule there is nothing that can be done for this season.