Change to reward for a GM posting an in-season prospect thread

[PiratesGM (BTL)]

As a veteran of 20 years of leagues this size, let me weight in a little bit:

I am going to assume that there are some people in a league this size who have little to no knowledge of prospects, probably might peruse some top 100 lists from MLB Pipeline but that’s it. This is absolutely a small percent of owners in leagues like this.

I’m also assuming that the standard owner here has a better knowledge of prospects. They’re going a little off the beaten path to find public top prospect lists, but with fantasy slants, and probably use some kind of top 300-500 dynasty asset list.

There is also a larger portion of owners that probably approaches the “standard” owners who is heavily invested in leagues like this. 500 or more prospects rostered doesn’t scare them. They likely pay for at least one premium service to get resources and lists that are behind paywalls. The beginning of June starts a holiday of sorts, with the MLB Draft, Complex and DSL starting up. I am one of those, and I can usually tell which owners are using those services based off who is on their roster, and especially come FYPD draft time……bonus points if you can tell me who actually was the first to tout Elly De La Cruz.

That being said, I still don’t think you should be able to match a player. No one is truly “finding” a player here, we’re all getting notes from premium services and Twitter reports from those people. Some of the owners who are in the small minority without prospect knowledge or standard knowledge might start bidding on some players just if they see some action on them, but this is basically saying “hey, people who subscribe to premium services already get the jump on prospects, and we’re going to make it even easier for you to build a dominant farm”