I must admit a good conspiracy theory usually intrigues my mind so I did some checking on my own and here are my thoughts.

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>Posted By three guys
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>Example 1
>Baltimore Thunder in LL 35
>Thunder had a 32 man roster and out of the blue they have a 36 man roster. I can even name the
>players added Brent Brede, Juan Castro, Jose Vidro and Eduardo Perez. You can see they never
>traded for those four players and never drafted them...how did they get there? Thunder or some one
>had to place them there using means other then trade and draft. This Thunder team was in and
>stayed in first place and had a very top of the line roster and well rested.

All 4 players in question are INN players. Tech will add INN Players to any team that is short on appearances. I did not have the time to do extensive research to see if the added players were actually needed. But they are scrubs so they certainly didn't help him win. I see no reason to think this situation involved cheating.

>Example 2
>ARIZONA CHIEFS in LL 40 owner James Wingate
>He played out ownerless team during his first series, this team became ownerless before the end of
>the draft let alone during the start of the. season. The team he played had close to 30 ERRORS in
>the five game series vs him!!! yes you read right near 30. Robot manager was playing againsted
>him and your see alot of strange defensive setups totally NOT ROBOT MANAGER. some one made
>those changes not sure who or how but the next two series after the James Wingate series that
>team played as expected by robot manager fair honest normal amount of ERRORS

It is possible that there is a cheating situation here with an owner signing up setting strange lineups for the first series (either to help a friend or maybe for some other sick reason).

It is also possible that there was a bug in the system in this series. A friend of mine had a problem where the robot changed all his defensive positions for a playoff game in PB 98 LL#6. So there is prior evidence to indicate that it is POSSIBLE that it was a game glitch that did not involve CHEATING.


>EXAMPLE 3
>ChARLESTON BLUEBIRDS of again LL 40 owner PAUL NOTINE. on Friday Paul Notine's team had
>Armando Reynoso, Santes and Tucker rusty later that day those players were not rusty. They were
>all on his active roster for three series and never moved up or down to the farm or even used one bit
>thus they became rusty but strangely enough quickly became READY out of the blue.

It is difficult to comment on this one because several games have been played this week so the status of all the players has changed since what you first saw.


I have yet to see PROOF of CHEATING. Just some very interesting and intriguing CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
I personally would be careful before calling names and accusing people of cheating without proof. But that is just me.

I hope this sheds some light on these situations.