Yeti Cap Punishment

ADwyer87 · 10-08-2019, 09:55 PM

hello all,

infinite brought to my attention that the Yeti have been playing without Wolfie McDummy's contract on the books. An extra line was added above the sum function to add McDummy in. This led to them being over the cap by 1M in S16. The rule on cap overages is as follows:

Quote:1.5. If a team is found to be over the cap, they will be fined double the amount they went over for their next season, and will be made to be compliant by reduction in OL bots

As such, they will be fined $2,000,000 in S18 cap space. Since they brought this to our attention, and it is still offseason, we will not force them to reduce their OL bots, and allow them to do whatever is necessary to be cap compliant.

Here is some past precedent for cap overage decisions: http://nsfl.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=14351

that is all

infinitempg · 10-08-2019, 09:58 PM

Hi. So this cap infraction is entirely my fault, and to be absolutely clear, I take the blame for it. However, I maintain this is not an issue of intentional wrongdoing but rather of negligence and unforeseen issues with the budget sheet.

I won't make this long, but the crux of the issue is that when I added an extra 2 rows above Mark Grau's row on June 7th at 10:06 PM (those with edit permissions on the Budget Sheet can check this over) in order to make a space for the new GM pick Wolfie McDummy, it changed the SUM formula for the total cell. Rather than counting the entire column (e.g. I2:I91), the formula changed to I4:I91. Could this have been avoided by giving GMs edit access to the total column, or by using a more foolproof formula like I:I91? Maybe, but that's not the point. What resulted was us overlooking Wolfie's 1M contract in Row 2, and as a result we were 1M over the cap in S16.

Again, I take full responsibility for this as I should have noticed the 1M discrepancy earlier. When I noticed, I immediately self-reported to HO, expecting a punishment to be handed down, as the rules are fairly cut and dry on this issue.

I apologize to the entire Colorado Yeti organization for this mistake, and I hope that the ramifications of it do not affect us too harshly this season.

#YetiNoises