Waitwut wrote:
Doesn’t really address the issue of why people do most position changes or play out of position. Adding penalty to a game that is full of penalties within the coding would border unbearable.
Position changes and play oop are two very separate things with different rationales.
You see a TE with high acc, speed, good blocking stats and strength but poor route running, hands, ball carrying. As a GM, you assess and figure converting to an O Lineman leads in increased weight, lowering speed but not necessarily too much. A good GM would position change because they view the play as a more natural lineman based upon the stats.
Playing oop is a way of gaining an advantage by gaming the system. I seem to recall boss man mentioning along the lines of speed not being a constant across all positions - 75 speed on a WR is different than 75 on a RB, different than 75 on a C... So playing a WR at RB having not converted them means they'd retain WR speed rather than use the RB speed. As players in a position tend to a certain weight, and since WRs are generally lighter than RBs, converting means the WR would lose some speed (not a great deal, but still).
The latter is why some leagues are tight on oop. IMO, where a player played oop is heavier than the standard weight for the position, there's no real advantage gained, indeed, often the opposite. Where the player is "too light", then there's a problem.
