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UPDATE on GRIPE

Posted By Patrick

Well, turns out that as of Saturday, I still have not heard from either Tech or Mike. Apparently, the Robot replayed Game 3 with my team winning. Then the Robot played Games 4 and 5 also with my team losing Game 4 and winning Game 5. The games were played on Friday evening and by the time they were finished, Games 6 and 7 had been turned on, preventing me from selecting pitchers. So...I had to let the robot play my 3 home games for me. I suppose I should be grateful that Game 3 was replayed but I'm starting to believe that the robot just automatically replayed it since it had not been finished.

I think we owners should push for a change in the Game reset policy. It seems MORE FAIR to not allow replays during the regular season, when it is not so crucial and have Mike review the case for a replay at the end of the season and during the playoffs. Just automatically giving INTENTIONAL LOSSES during the playoffs is the wrong strategy in my opinion. Additionally, if someone is known or strongly suspected of using game crashes as a way to win, let's have an enforcement policy that suspends or ejects that player from PB.

Second, the total lack of communication during these playoffs has been very frustrating. It leaves owners with their hands tied if they have a problem. The schedules have been helter skelter from the first with no one really knowing when games had to be played or how much time would be allowed between groups of games. Does Games 3-5 are due by Thursday does that mean by Noon, 8pm, Midnight or sometime Friday...see my point. As an example, last night sometime between 4pm and 8pm, the Games 3-5 not played yet were done so by the robot and Games 6-7 were turned on. Its a little hard to pick your starting pitchers for Games 6-7 when Games 3-5 haven't been played yet and even harder when the robot does it for you (i.e. overusing 1 pitcher or not using another).

Anyway, my team lost the series 4 games to 2. I suppose I should take some satisfaction in making it to atleast Game 6 but I really feel like I had no control over this entire series and that some changes mentioned above would prevent some of that in the future.