Toronto_AGM_Adil
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- Apr 9, 2006
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I think this is just bs. The rules don't say there's a checkpoint after the deadline, and the "exception" says that the waiver claims that put a team over the cap should be rejected. Neither me nor Pasi could really be aware of this rule as it's not in the rulebook and the rulebook has been updated several times since that post was made on the subject last year. (Nulla poena sine lege) There's no reason why we as GM's should have to make searches for possible rule change that hasn't been implemented in the rulebook even if it was talked about briefly a year ago.
I'm sorry Ville that you didn't see the original post, from looking at the payrolls quite a few teams didn't see them either. That being said, a lot of us do see these rule postings and a lot of us do remember to follow them otherwise a lof of us would have been picking up and dropping waiver players as well. Again, keep in mind Hasnain did get penalized last year for an infraction in this regard so there is a precident.
Sean's been working really hard to find all the rule updates and get them in the rulebook but it's a very hard job (I know I've tried to help him) so I don't think we can expect the rule book to be up to date all the time. The system that we've all lived with is that rule updates get posted on the boards and its upto the GM's to keep track of these rulings... I'm not saying this is a perfect system but it's the system that we've all lived in since I joined this league, so I don't see how you can argue the validity of the rule.
Maybe the lesson from all this is that we need to start putting rulings in one specific place (maybe a sticky thread?) and then we can go ahead and update the rules from that thread... either way, as far as I can tell if a post is up with a ruling explicitly made to close a loophole in the rules it should be enforced not ignored.