Question on stats

[NoBallinPDX]

I have a question (several actually) regaurding these replacement teams.
First, there is the issue of...Is hiring a stand-in replacement team ethical, moral or even legal? Is it fair to 'legitimate' teams in the league to continue doing business as usual in a responsible professional manner, when fill-in teams are brought in as cannon fodder?
My slant is, that when two teams such as Billings and Rapid City put on an honest, competitive game and come up with a final score of 44-36, How do their statistics stack up against those of an 82-0 ass-whuppin'? On paper, the ass-whuppin's look impressive, yet it in no way reflects good up-front competition of a game tightly played.
Next Q: When these replacement teams play, do they get listed on the rosters of the teams they are hired to represent and at the end of the season, do their stats get measured in with everyone elses?
Last Q: Do the individual replacement players rack up any stats? Do they get credit for them, under what team name? Example Tennessee Pioneers replaced Tenn. RiverSharks, so which team takes the credit. Pioneers (and their players) or R.Sharks?
Just wondering how all that stuff works out.

[preeths]

You ask a lot of good questions. While the league will have to provide solid answers, the one good thing to come out of these games with replacement teams is showing just how much better a professional indoor team is than any semipro squad. Don't get me wrong, there is talent in the semipros, and you can't question their hearts, but the indoor leagues are heads and tails above them in overall quality of play.

Now, let me add to your questions. Are reliable stats even being kept for these games? Do the stats or scores figure in any way into playoff tiebreakers (i.e. point differential, PF, PA, etc.)? I've heard the AIFL is going to "asterisk" any records set against fill-in teams, but I don't know what that does to stats or what the NIFL is planning to do.

[PIONEERSFAN101]

Knowing the NIFL, they'd praise any records set against semipro replacements. Or they'd simply deny that the records were set against replacements.

[AllTheRage]

Rapid City has had their "replacement" teams only they played them up front.
They have played Lincoln 3 times and and Bozeman twice.

This can come into play as a tie-breaker for the championship game, if both teams in the title game have the same record and it would not be fair since points for vs. points against are tie-breakers.