[USML Announce] A New Question?

[Richard Robbins]

A fertile topic for further discussion this off season. I've kept a note of
items to tweak. I just wanted to ask the question and see if I was missing
something. My sense is that the thing we need is a readily referenceable
snapshot of standings at any point in time that persists.

On Friday, August 9, 2013, Blocker, Mark B. wrote:

> Yes.  Look at the standings each morning.****
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> Is there an easy way to determine that?****
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Blocker, Mark B." <mblocker at Sidley.com>
> Date: 08/09/2013 8:04 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] A New Question?
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> I’d be in favor of one of two rules:****
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> 1.  If teams are contiguous at any point during the week (based on a.m.
> standings), a trade is allowed.  That is easy to administer.****
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> 2.  Abolish contiguous trading.  It never struck me as fair that team
> behind the leader can load up, but the leader is effectively stuck in
> neutral.  I won’t pretend there is any support for this; just a good
> opportunity to mention it.****
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>   -- Mark****
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> Behalf Of *springkerb at aol.com
> *Sent:* Friday, August 09, 2013 7:35 AM
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> That can be a risk assumed by the trading partners.  Nothing's stopping
> anybody from processing immediately upon agreement.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Robbins <rerobbins at itinker.net>
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> Sent: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 10:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] A New Question?****
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