*On Agents and how to Broker

[DarknessRising]

@Sylphreni
Now I know, some of you rules lawyers are going to call this semantics, but I’m happy to announce that during the creation of this piece this theory has already been tested! Long time user Dermot has seen fit to open his own “player sports groups” which in his own words “is not, never has been, and never will be a player agency.” How could it be an agency? It’s just a sports group, right? To my knowledge, this has provoked no action or fine from the Head Office, because as far as I can tell it’s perfectly legal. So regardless of if you want to be a “sports group”, “broker”, or “player advocate,” find the term that’s right for you, and use it. You’re far less regulated that way, and can live more in the grey, and for this to work we want to be Christian Grey levels of grey.

Now i can't speak for all of HO on this but I can attest to my personal opinion on this and how i view this/brought this up to HO. Dermot's "sports group" as it stands, has given us no reason to be punished. However, he has a very fine balencing act to master in order to avoid one fo two things

1. Be known as an agency. This seems obvious but its actually much harder and serve and less likely. Curretnly, since he cant have any team affiliation he would have to retire his player i guess? Plus has to pay the agency costs as well. This would allow him a bit more ability in doing things though

2. Tamper punishment. If he does get into the contract side of things (he has stated he never intends on but cant always beleive what people say) then that would be considered tampering if its actively getting people onto teams. There is a grey area here of "helping my friends discuss where they go" and "tamperining them onto a team" and that is where HO will have to work out, if need be, what is deemed as going to far