So my question is, where is the line on this?

@Amidships made some excellent points about learning the sim and the system and how this new policy will likely hamstring a GM's ability to learn and orient themselves.

I'll take it a step or two further. If I want to sit down and create a test bed to do statistical analysis of goalie builds, is that something I can do? We've benefitted from having some pretty cool articles about that sort of thing in seasons past, is it banned now?

How about building new strategy aids? It feels like going in blind to just set a strategy and have to live with it. There's at least one version out there of a tool that compares strategy effectiveness. Are we allowed to build things like that from harvested data to use as references and tools?

What's the plan for when a team seems to be following the rules but still has some kind of competitive advantage? Are we as a community going to demand their secrets and start a witch hunt?

I want to like this idea, and I think it comes from a good place, but I'm not sure that this coming season is the right season to pull it out of the hat and give it a whirl. It feels like an overcorrection from "Ruthless Data Mining" to "Top Decking with a Blindfold". I would hope that there's some kind of middle ground.