Adding players to a lineup

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by Andy

The issue is that the local rules are enacted in good faith and seem to be what people want, but the groups making the local rules don't have enough of a grasp of the entire rule book and don't consider how their local rules could interact with other rules in the book. This creates two issues....

1. Teams that do choose to participate in championship play think that their local league rules are "the" rules and will get upset when a ruling is made that is correct by book, but not per the local rules.

2. The teams are playing within their local rules and not learning how to play situational softball within championship rules that could be to their advantage.

I've always maintained that we have a perfectly good rule book that a lot of thought and preparation goes into (speaking USA SB)...why don't we use it instead of trying to change everything?

And the more immediate and more obvious effect is the open holes and ambiguous provisions. The real rule book has enough of those anyway, but the local ones are more likely to occur.