by bernieh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:44 pm
Hi there...
First of all, LMBombers is correct on several points. A team going over the cap (I think especially in the Mystery Card games) is not as much a glitch as it is a by-product of the draft system. I'm not trying to spin it - I admit it's not a desirable one - but there was no technical malfunction. The draft ran out of $750K players and had to award higher-priced ones.
We don't suspend leagues automatically when there is a team over the cap because in practice, most of the time people don't care. Maybe it's because of what LMBombers said - it's not necessarily an advantage - but for whatever reason, the number of inquiries we get about it are a tiny percentage of the times it happens.
The fact that you care about it matters, of course, so I'm going to uphold the precedent that we've set, and that is to instruct the manager in question to get under the cap. He won't be charged any free agent penalties, because it wasn't his fault it happened.
I hope this is a satisfactory answer and course of action.