11-04-2021, 12:24 PMTommySalami Wrote: We are currently working on becoming more lenient to GMs. Being a GM in this league used to be a privilege that was fought over, now it seems like a chore to a lot of people. Sadly for MTL, the punishment was set in stone as per the rulebook. There is nothing in the rulebook regarding this situation with Ace so we have room to be more lenient. As long as I'm in HO, I'll be fighting for the removal of auto-firing strikes/probation and hopefully we can get that approved and into the rulebook. I believe it limits our ability to run the league. It's not difficult to tell when a GM has become too incompetent to run their team. Punishment is not an effective deterrent in the real world so I'm not sure why we'd expect it to be in our sim league.

while the situation isn't exactly stated in the rule book, there's precedent about what's happening in illegal trade. Despite precedent, it was decided to be not followed cause it would be to much work and hard to resolve due to the whole situation, despite the commish having been made aware an hour before the draft (which could have easily cancel the trade and solved everything that's currently happening, angering 1-2 teams instead of 18-19). And yet, it was decided to go with something that 'sound like the issue' aka illegal trades, along with picking what fit the narrative in the punishment instead of going with what's clearly written for SAID punishment that was decided similar enough. Still sound like some pick and choose in the rule book instead of following it or following precedent.

If it's really in the work to remove all infractions to GM, im expecting an announcement soon enough (though with HO timeline this season, maybe we will see in 2 months) about removing all mention of firing in the rule book and removing all strike to GMs since it's something that have such an impact that not everyone should be subject to even if it's written on similar punishment.