Out of Position Rules

One other note to explain our thinking, or that probably influenced our thinking. At the time we settled on the rules, Brooklyn had just won 6 out of the last 7 championships, having perfected the 10WR, 10CB offense/defense. And while correlation does not equal causation, I will note that since we implemented the rule change, we have had four different league champions.

Where is billstein! Tell him we finally stopped the10 WRs system!

As always, discussions are ongoing around the matrix - a major issue is it serves two purposes, allowing position changes (ie player is RDE, from player page you convert him to SLB) and also where they can go on the depth chart / overrides.

Other issues around roster management are ongoing in MFN-TEST, so might be useful to take a look at the forums there, JDB has dedicated threads around changes under test.

Discussion on draft matrix:

We have one big problem if you are not able to draft manually:
Automatic draft does not distinguish between CB, SS or FS. So it might occur that you need FS or SS and AI drafts CB. Due to our matrix they could not be converted to FS or SS, and they are not eligible by manual positioning or overrides.

I see the issue now that you point it out. Funny that safety is the only position like that. They do segregate between the different DL for example. Do people feel strongly about this? Should we loosen up and let CB/S cross over. Personally, I am liking the more restrictive rules. I do find myself heavily scouting safeties now, which I never did before because you could always just play a CB at safety.

I see both sides of the argument. I'm probably more like norm looking at safeties as "defensive backs" now, and putting them in the CB depth chart too, even though they're usually slower. The only thing I'm worried about is in the new Beta version there are minimum numbers of players you need active at all positions for every game, so you'd need at least two "true" CBs at all times. It's different than just stocking up on 94 speed guys who have 25 m2m coverage ratings, but still something to consider in the future.

I think it's a non-issue. Pre-rank your guys or trade/sign for your position of need.

So, If the majority doesn't want to see the problem, I should leave my team to AI for a while. Let's see what happens

Yes, ultimately, in this game, if you are relying on any autodraft/autosort/auto gameplan, you are probably not going to be a top competitive team where this one draft decision ruins everything anyways.

The other thing mentioned - if there are going to be new rules coming soon from the game anyways regarding positions, I'm inclined to wait to see how those play out before making changes.

I think you don't understand my intentions:
- I'm not Always online
- I do set my priorities
- I fill up my manual board with my favourite prospects
- in case I'm not online, my manual board is empty, AI will draft a DB. This could be any of those three positions. In case of a CB, he cannot be diverted to SS or FS and will not fill empty spaces there

Suggestion: skip the restriction until TC