# Should pitcher inning limits be treated the same as game limits?

**URL:** https://community.ottoneu.com/t/should-pitcher-inning-limits-be-treated-the-same-as-game-limits/2212
**Category:** Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/should-pitcher-inning-limits-be-treated-the-same-as-game-limits/2212 "2017-09-29T16:15:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 13

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/user_avatar/community.ottoneu.com/nivshah/32/613_2.png) [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/should-pitcher-inning-limits-be-treated-the-same-as-game-limits/2212/13 "2017-09-29T19:09:03Z")

</div>

There are a couple of relevant threads that should be reviewed before going deeper on this conversation:

> [@Ottoneu IP "Soft" Cap](http://community.ottoneu.com/t/ottoneu-ip-soft-cap/570):
>
> Just a quick reminder to [@everyone](https://community.ottoneu.com/groups/everyone) that might new to the game: the 1,500 IP cap is “soft”, which means you can actually exceed it, which is important to know if you’re in a tight race. Here’s the official [rule](https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/rules#scoring): The innings maximum is a soft cap, meaning on the day a team goes over the 1500 IP limit, all the pitchers played that day will receive credit. This essentially means that if you pitch 1,499 IP and have 4 SP lined up to start on your “last” day of the season (the day you cross 1,500)…

And this post from 2014:

[http://about90feet.com/2014/06/10/lineup-records-innings-caps-and-scaling/](http://about90feet.com/2014/06/10/lineup-records-innings-caps-and-scaling/)

The only way a “hard” IP cap could work is for the site to check occasionally if a team is over IP limits and remove their most recent pitcher’s stats until they are under IP limits. It would NOT be taking the “first 1500 IP” or anything near that, where as for position players we can easily take the first 162/810 games played. Again, comparing IP and G is where this all falls apart.

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/should-pitcher-inning-limits-be-treated-the-same-as-game-limits/2212)._