by jpgavin » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:04 am
We should come up with an appropriate penalty for carrying a player on your roster who is not available to your franchise.
For Pjatscfy's case I suggested that he use the offending player's back up in his starting line up for as many games as the ineligible player started. (If the Giants use Mantle in CF for 15 games, then they have to put their back up CF in the line up for 15 games.) This rule would need a provision for carrying ineligible back ups.
Aerodave suggested a monitary penalty. Easier to execute but we would have to come up with an appropriate way of determinig the amount. A fixed amount? A percentage of the overall salary cap? A fine related to the offending player's salary? Do we take into account the number of games played by the offending player?
Thoughts, other suggestions?