Who said anything about log in info? I said ran the team. It only takes a couple minutes a day to log in. And you usually have a good half a day or better to log in for a fight. This can be done through most cell phones if needed, or even at a public library. From my experience, people have plenty of time before they have to log in to a fight. If someone hasn't logged in, I generally have their facebook identity, which they can also access through a phone, and/or their actual phone number. We rarely have issues w/ players not logging in. When this happens, we usually know well in advance they won't be able to log in as they inform us that they are camping and will have no cell or wi-fi service. During these times, we can pick our fights accordingly or have allies sub in while they are away from game. There really are lots of options available and giving someone your login info isn't needed at all.
"Do I risk losing my team when I put someone else in charge? Sure. But knowing my players as well as I do, I know that's not going to happen."
See? Nothing about handing over my toon. Just handing over my team. (I would NEVER hand over my toon. I'm much to jealous and suspicious for this. I have entirely to many haters to fully trust anyone when it comes to my toon. I have made my toon infamous as a villain across many formats.) I'm sure Leaping Lizard can inform you there was a period of almost 2 weeks where someone else was leading the team other than me. Even then it isn't needed to hand over the team unless you employ certain tactics for dumping trophies. Your advisers can still pick fights w/o their leader present. But since we do employ trophy dumping tactics and I was only going to be able to get on minimally for a 2 week stretch, it was best for me to hand off the team to a trusted adviser so she could do what was necessary to successfully run our trophy dropping strategies when needed.
Now, due to our long time gaming together in other competitive formats, we have a lot of tricks up our sleeves. But I'm not going to give away all our secrets and our edges. Knowing each other's phone numbers is a big one I've told you already. One thing I learned from poker is the more edges you have than your opponents, the more advantage you have. But there are several teams from our old game that know several of our edges, though not all of them. So I'm sure if you ask around, you might glean a few. I will give you one though. Facebook is your friend....................