(S28) PT 3 - What If?

[FootballIsCool]

There have indeed been many moments in history that have influenced the perception of the league and the landscape of the league, but as being a newer player I don’t have too much experience with these decisions. However I will say that one decision that I think may have negatively affected the league was HO’s scandalous handling of the recent PT head punishment. A majority of people know the decision that was made but for those who are newer to the league the black and white thing that happened was that PT head got fired for following the precedent of accepting “late point tasks”. A vast majority of these accepted submissions were predictions that were submitted prior to the actual starting of the sim. In addition to these late acceptance of point tasks there was a single situation where both the PT head and someone that was deemed their friend were given credit for a PT that was submitted after the deadline. I imagined it going quite a bit differently. I think the nuclear option was chosen and wrongfully so. I imagined that the ruling would take away 2x the amount of TPE from the head that was perceived as stolen, a reduction in pay for half of a season and some sort of time period of probation where if an error occurred on their watch they would be removed from that position. I would consider that to be on the harsher side of punishment. If the head office were locked in on Kya’s removal from their position I would have hoped that they came to an agreement of Kya stepping down at the end of the season and some sort of agreed provisionary time for them to not hold that position however I don’t feel that this was needed. The punishment is so extreme that it is nowhere close to the offense committed. As a governing body you tend to look at past precedences and make a ruling, Is it not fair for other people who hold positional roles to use that same logic when doing their job? I assume this ruling has lessened the interest of people to be in positions of the league. As it has completely removed all interest I would have ever had in taking a job in the league I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this. After reading all of the angles of this case, it makes HO appear to be a kangaroo court that lacks any sort of empathy and humility. This precedent established leaves no margin for any sort of error when there was clearly an issue with the system in place.