04-22-2025, 06:58 PMCementHands Wrote: I mean sure, you have said that checking the budgets is no longer part of Head Office tasks, and squarely on the Budget team. That makes sense. Ultimately though head office is the last step and from an outsider perspective it seems like there are a bunch of roster or budget related issues. I group these together because they are similar. Head Office has expanded, and even has access to intern(s) I believe? Seems like a relatively simple fix would be to go through the budget sheet to see if the rostered players all show up on it. Unless I'm missing a point and all of these teams incorrectly included these players on their budget in which case this should be a much greater issue than simply rostering an un contracted player, but claiming to have agreed to a specific contract, where no agreement is in place and not only rostering and playing a player with no contract, but also hampering other teams from reaching out and potentially hamper player agency through Free Agency.
Reading the posts from Carnage in this thread however it sounds like there was an agreement in place though and just not posted, so that contract should not have shown up on the team budget page.

I feel like a relatively quick budget confirmation would have saved this issue where 20% of the league played games with a non compliant roster, and now players who may have even agreed to terms with their team are being forced to find a new home after the start of the season. That seems like a rather large disruption.

I'm just trying to provide ideas for actions that I think can help prevent these issues from occurring, because issues similar to this seem to be happening often

Thank you,
Krash

Bolded is actually the case here. All 4 teams with infractions had the players listed on their budget with specific dollar amounts, but none of them could produce evidence of a valid contract. Some teams were able to produce evidence of DMs in which the players agreed to terms, but those agreements expired on 3/31 at Noon EST without any contracts being posted to confirm the agreement prior to their expiration.