04-23-2025, 10:09 AMTomen Wrote: In the last few seasons and with the upcoming expansions I think HO should consider moving away from flat blanket punishments that apply to all teams and instead move to a punishment catalog. Since draft pick punishments hit rebuilding teams harder than competing ones. Obviously the opposite applies to cap fines. Having just a variety of punishments that HO can apply considering in which state the offending team is. One could also consider something like loss of HTD slots/ retention slots to have more varied punishments.

Sometimes punishments that suck have to be done is what I'll end with.

I don't inherently disagree with this, i'm just trying to mentally navigate how we accomplish this whilst being as objective about it as possible. The determination of a specific team's state is hard to do, so applying to right punishment would always end up being up for debate. Whilst it can be unevenly harsh, the current state of blanket punishments at the very least enables a common ground of knowledge and eliminates to a certain degree the inference that HO subjectively attributes punishment. While we do have the right to escalate sanctions, we have the onus of providing enough evidence or justification when doing so. I think we're always open to making it more fair, so this is definitely something to have marinate as we keep working on making the rulebook better!