Colorado resigning

[dinamo14 (Mihai, COL)]

Hello guys!

I am sorry to inform you but I've decided to leave this league. It looks like I am being accused of breaking the league rules and I need a penalty...

I am 46 years old and lived my life with integrity.

I really cannot accept for someone who doesn't know me one bit to question my integrity in a game with no real benefit.

Wish you all the best!

Cheers!

Mihai

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Oct 16, 2022 6:37:49 GMT -5 dinamo14 (Mihai, COL) said:

Hello guys!

I am sorry to inform you but I've decided to leave this league. It looks like I am being accused of breaking the league rules and I need a penalty...

I am 46 years old and lived my life with integrity.

I really cannot accept for someone who doesn't know me one bit to question my integrity in a game with no real benefit.

Wish you all the best!

Cheers!

Mihai

Hi Mihai,

I am sorry that you read my message this morning as an attack on your integrity.

I am sure the rest of our league members will join me in wishing you the best in the future.

Stephen

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Full disclosure to the rest of the league, a copy of my message to Mihai sent this morning is below.

Please contact me if you feel I have acted inapporpriately and I would be happy to discuss this with you. Alternatively, if you are not happy and do not feel comfortable bringing this to my attention then please contact Adam.

Oct 16, 2022 4:39:11 GMT -5 Rangers GM (Stephen) said:

Hi Mihai,

I started your roster check this morning and was wondering if you could help me out with some questions I had before I went any further.

There are several players showing as protected on your initial 2023 roster who are showing as unprotected on your final 2022 roster. They are:
Brian Serven
Alan Trejo
Lucas Gilbreath
Justin Lawrence
Jesus Tinoco
Yanquiel Fernandez

The only one I can find a protect post for is Fernandez, who you protected on 29 Mar 2022.
Are you able to show me where the others were protected? If not, then they should not be on your initial 2023 roster page. If you want to protect them to add them to your roster page, this can be done after the roster maintenance period ends and the roster freeze is lifted.


Serven (52 AB), Trejo (20 AB), Gilbreath (9 IP), Lawrence (13.2 IP) and Tinoco (3.1 IP) all made appearances in your Fantrax active lineup in 2022, but I believe that they were not protected (or paid) whilst doing so.
Fernandez did not appear in your active lineup on Fantrax, but as per the post of 29 Mar he was protected and as a result should have been paid a salary.
Your final 2022 roster - and for most of the season from what I can tell from your transaction history - showed a cap usage of $99.9, despite all six of those players showing as unprotected (and unpaid).

My first instinct is that rule 6.4.2 needs to be applied in this situation, but I did not want to go any further without first consulting you on this.
Can you provide any reasoning why you think that rule 6.4.2 should not be applied here, or do you agree that it would be appropriate?

Thanks,
Stephen

[Red Sox GM (Nick)]

Sorry to see you go, Mihai.

I don’t see a problem with your message Stephen. Rules are rules. The penalty here seems sort of moot, except for historical record keeping. No future cap penalty from this infraction, right?

[Red Sox GM (Nick)]

One point I forgot to add - it’s unfortunate these violations weren’t caught by anyone during season, and by anyone I don’t mean just Mihai or Stephen. Granted it seems these players in question did not accumulate a ton of stats, but imagine if they did.

End of day the primary responsibility for maintaining roster here and Fantrax is on the owner.

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Oct 16, 2022 7:14:28 GMT -5 Red Sox GM (Nick) said:

The penalty here seems sort of moot, except for historical record keeping. No future cap penalty from this infraction, right?

The penalty is moot as penalties apply to owners and not teams, but if Mihai had stayed then any penalty deemed necessary/appropriate would have been influenced by whether it was determined that this be one infraction or multiple infractions.

I had already reached out to TC to ask their opinion on this (as I often do when I think there might be contentious or tricky issues) but none of them got an opportunity to voice their view before the need for a decision was taken out of our hands.

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Oct 16, 2022 7:20:48 GMT -5 Red Sox GM (Nick) said:

One point I forgot to add - it’s unfortunate these violations weren’t caught by anyone during season, and by anyone I don’t mean just Mihai or Stephen. Granted it seems these players in question did not accumulate a ton of stats, but imagine if they did.

End of day the primary responsibility for maintaining roster here and Fantrax is on the owner.

The intent of the rules - where categories are forfeited in the playing week where the infraction is found - is some incentive to encourage some sort of self-policing between teams during each matchup. 
However, I must admit that I have never looked over an opponent's lineup/roster to ensure that they are within the rules when I am facing them. Generally, I trust that my opponents are playing within the rules and have not added players to their Fantrax roster which they have no right to add given the state of their Proboards roster.

There have been odd occasions in the past where players have been left on a Fantrax roster after they had been unprotected by accident, for example, but never a case where an owner has simply added 5 players to their Fantrax roster and used them in their active lineup when they should not have done.

[Astros GM (Adam)]

In case you get to read this Mihai, I just wanted to thank you for your time here. It was nice to get to share this hobby for the past few years and best wishes on all your endeavors.