Oh wow. Didn’t know Rabid was in Texas.

But asides from all the chatter, it seems the CAL & NOLA was the case of unregressed players while here we also have 2 more wrongdoings surfaced in not moving a player to the proper place, using him in lines after cutting and not including in the budget sheet. It makes sense they got docked on top of GM pay for more transgressions.
Though as RED mentions and I do agree with that assessment, all those punishments are rather laughable, whether it's a low amount of money or pick in the shallow draft and could lead to further infractions because people might feel encouraged to stretch the rules. Forum/sim suspensions could be fairly more effective in discouraging such events and paying more attention to the details.

Certainly the regression process should be revised and maybe started earlier to give more time or consider creating a dedicated job (Regression Auditor/Updater?) to go through every update thread and approve regression separately to reduce the mistakes to the minimum (not an original idea, PBE just introduced it last season and it seems to be working quite nicely). Approving regression in players update thread also leaves a clear written trail that can be retraced later to prove if GMs/players fulfilled their duties properly.
That wouldn't solve Free Agents that have no one to take care of their regression, but HO/Responsible person should at least leave a note (in big red letters preferably) on players page that before picking him up he has to be regressed by X amount from his attributes, before being eligible to play, maybe even add X to his player thread title to mark that.