*Ownership Press Conference

[iamslm22]

There have been a lot of TPE scandals in this league, from Noble, to Gibson, and many others now to Westfield.  I have seen suspensions for the serious, and nothing for the "minor", but never a TPE penalty.  In the case of Westfield, we have a respected member of the site who did something illegal, most likely due to simply forgetting the rules, but still illegal.  Given that he holds multiple records, simply correcting his attributes is not enough, because it will taint the career records.  Why not simply penalize him TPE (I would propose 1.5x the extra TPE utilized)?

With the agent "drama," why did there appear to be so little effort to find a way to be an agent?  Later on in the thread it was stated that a user COULD be an agent as long as that user controlled no players, which I think was a great idea.  Was any discussion had with Er as to what he was looking for with this and try to find some way to allow that while preserving anti-tampering?

I'll handle these issues in turn.

Look, I think the Noble and Gibson punishments, and the way those were handled were an abomination. I wasn't part of that HO, none of the current members of head office were, so I don't use those as "precedent" or anything.

As far as Westfield, I don't know what should be done. It will be discussed by the head office and I don't want to usurp their role or anything. I understand a mistake was made by Westfield, the Head Office and the updaters, but I'm inclined to say it wasn't all too big of a deal and we shouldn't do anything other than double check our work. I think 99% of the people missed the point of Trey's thread, which clearly was that witch hunts get us nowhere, and that the way the Hawks were treated back then is a fucking disgrace. He wasn't trying to burn Westfield down.

As far the agent drama I'm not sure what you mean in your question. DOR's announcement stated that you could be an agent if you are unaffiliated with a team and do not have a player. We did not have any discussions with ER, but we received complaints from numerous General Managers. I don't know if it crossed the line to tampering, but we decided to put an end to it before it definitively did.