Rule Proposal: Remove Free 1/2 Shift ✅

I am curious how you would remove the free half shift? Perhaps this ties into an update to the fatigue rule where the player become fatigued once they have played beyond the half shift that they are allotted?

I don't think this is a bad idea at all. You would need to make all aware that under the current rule set this change MUST be made(unless team has no other unfatigued players that can play the position) and is it not optional to play the guy 3 ticks fatigued and the player can be changed with or without possession.

To mitigate your 7.5 shifting player being removed when his 7.5 shifts are use up, consider that the player replacing him needn't only play only 3 tics, but can actually play 5 for the same price. In this way, you're paying 1.5 shifts for 1.5 shift time on ice.

It seems to me that your "unfairly penalized" argument extends to any player who at any time in a game has a half shift remaining, regardless of how it came about. Half shifts are something we've been dealing with for a long time.

In the interest of fairness, is it fair that 5-shifters can be on the ice 10% more time than they're rated, and 10-shifters only 5% more time than they're rated? And why rate players as playing 7.5 shifts (15 minutes) when they can actually play 8 shifts (16 minutes).

Of course, there is an out for me as card creator: I can remove 1/2 shift from every skater when the cards are created so that those skaters can play an extra 1/2 shift in the games they play. 

Interesting discussion.

So I think the impact to game flow will be significant as Arron has suggested. I do like his compromise about allowing those players currently on the ice able to continue on to the next shift change while under fatigue penalties. I would suggest that they need to be visually marked as entering their fatigue shift as they are placed on the ice so we don't forget the penalty during the shift.