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.<span></span><br>
<br>On Friday, August 9, 2013, Blocker, Mark B.  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes.  Look at the standings each morning.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'announce-bounces@usml.net');" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.net</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'announce-bounces@usml.net');" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>springkerb<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 09, 2013 8:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> USML Announcements<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] A New Question?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p><div>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Is there an easy way to determine that?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4 Active™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><br>
<br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Blocker, Mark B." <<a>mblocker@Sidley.com</a>> <br>Date: 08/09/2013 8:04 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: USML Announcements <<a>announce@usml.net</a>> <br>
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] A New Question? <br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’d be in favor of one of two rules:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">  -- Mark</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a>announce-bounces@usml.net</a> [<a>mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a>springkerb@aol.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 09, 2013 7:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a>announce@usml.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] A New Question?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p style="margin-left:1.0in"> <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That can be a risk assumed by the trading partners.  Nothing's stopping anybody from processing immediately upon agreement.<br><br><br>
</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-----Original Message-----<br>From: Richard Robbins <<a>rerobbins@itinker.net</a>><br>
To: USML Announcements <<a>announce@usml.net</a>><br>Cc: announce <<a>announce@usml.net</a>><br>Sent: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 10:17 pm<br>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] A New Question?</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div>
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