04-23-2025, 12:09 PMcharlieconway Wrote: Institute a cap penalty for the following season.

I'm going to refer to the "team" as the franchise for the next paragraph because I think team has a tendency to evoke people rather than the entity of the franchise itself:

I think it's reasonable for GM's behavior to have consequences for the franchise they lead. It turns it from a personal punishment (in this case levied against Sizz) into a general one. Talk of disincentivizing is very reasonable given it's the entire point of rule punishments, but in this case it doesn't make sense to disincentivize Sizz's rule breaking in this signing because Sizz didn't actually break any rules at all.

Right but a cap penalty is likely to make it so that some other player has to leave the team instead, maybe even a player who wasn't even remotely involved. And it's not scalable, not realistically. Say it's a 2M cap fine, if a team forgets to move four free agents, do we hit that team with an 8M cap fine? Or is it just a thing where a team could choose not to sign or move any of their free agents at the cost of a flat 2M cap fine?

I completely agree that it absolutely sucks to have players face the consequences for GM offenses, agree that Sizz did nothing wrong, and hope things work out in his favor. But "players catching the brunt of GM offenses" is just the unfortunate end result of most of our punishments, outside of GM salary fines, which have never been much of a deterrent in the first place because there are a lot of rules most competitive GMs would happily ignore for the cost of 8M dollars to their own bank account. Any punishment that isn't just a personal slap to the GM is going to impact the whole team or certain players more than just the GM, that is inherently the weight of a leadership position (and lemme tell you, it really does suck sometimes).

I really do want to find a solution here that doesn't screw over players, we just have not come up with any realistic options.