The Problem
On September 29, I received both a PM on Discord and a note on my update page regarding me accidentally double-claiming Weeks 5 and 6 predictions and double claiming a PT. To add on to this (news to me at the time), I apparently double-claimed a few things in the past, a mock draft and a prediction PT… both over two months ago. I recognized my mistakes, though a bit confused as to why this wasn’t picked up earlier, especially the double-claims from August. I PMed both Bovo and BWIII regarding this matter and explained that I was sorry and I need to pay more attention to my claims, which is 100% true. So, I shottily fixed the claim, not noticing that I claimed Trivia 4 twice, receiving another warning for it. So 15 TPE later, I set out to fix the problem and pay extra attention to my claims this week (or claims from the past two weeks, as I haven’t been updated until yesterday. I checked the codes on each of my claims and confirmed that each code was unique, or in the case of equipment, applied correctly. Until around this past Friday. For some reason, looking over my build, I thought that I hadn’t gotten Extra Time After Practice. So, (on mobile), I added Pro ETAP to my bank claim (which even had extra time on it which I didn’t even see), and added it to my claims, adding an extra 8 TPE to my claim. This was sniffed out by the updater and I am now being punished for it.
The Punishment
I can assume that HO was notified about this incident after the second warning, and were then put in a position of determining whether this is just laziness or something that I've been doing deliberately. Note that, number one, I was notified of this and double-claimed a second time (by the way, this double-claim didn't affect anything because it was sniffed out before I was updated). If I was doing this deliberately, I probably would have stopped after the updating team realized I double-claimed for a whopping two times before then. Secondly, I'm lazy. I'll 100% admit that I'm lazy and I guess I do need to double check these things. I was told by the HO that I wouldn't be able to use a word-inflator for my PTs a week later (NOTE: something that I've been doing for a whole month before hand and didn't get a word for it. HO members even knew I was doing it, but why did they wait a month until they decide to warn me about it and nearly give me a punishment for it? However, that's not the issue here.). But I can just say that they made the wrong call in determining this as cheating. In theory, I should be getting punished for messing up something and getting warned twice over for it. When I originally saw that I messed up a claim again, I thought that I maybe would be getting a small fine for causing an inconvenience to the updaters. But no… I’m getting fined 16 TPE (double what I claimed) and 6 million dollars. To put this into perspective, this is a week’s worth of TPE for me and more than an entire season’s worth of money, twice that of what I paid for the extra time after practice. This isn’t much compared to what has been handed down by the HO in the past. Apparently, the last person to do this was suspended an entire season. But you see, he was doing this deliberately. I am in no way double-claiming on purpose. If I was, I would have stopped after Bovo’s original warning.
My Response
So, in review, I am being penalized an entire week’s worth of TPE, an entire season’s worth of money, and my reputation is being tainted all due to simple mistakes that should not be problems to begin with. The updating team is given the job to overview the claims that each player makes and make sure that they are updating correctly. With the updating system the way it is now, it’s pretty easy to make a simple double-claim on a post. I have done this a couple of times, specifically in AUGUST, and I was only notified of it at the end of September. I acknowledged this problem but wondered how those double-claims were able to be missed. The updating team should have let me know at least a little sooner so that I can correct my problem. But you have to understand that this shouldn’t be an issue in the first place. If the updating team is reviewing each update as they should be, double-claiming shouldn’t even be a thing, and it shouldn’t be something that anyone should be punished for, even if they were doing it on purpose. This should be chalked up to someone just making a simple mistake, especially in my case. Look, I’m lazy, I’ll say it outright. Hell, just a week ago I got told off by the HO for using a word inflator in my PTs for fuck’s sake. Up until this week, I didn’t even second guess my claims and I sure as hell never double checked them for double-claims. This should be the updating team’s job, and if someone double-claims, maybe check in with them and see if they know they’re double-claiming. In my case, there were only two cases of this, spread out through the entire month of August. I double-claimed again at the end of September, which made the updating team JUST NOW go ahead and double check all of my claims. Why am I being incriminated for a mistake that my updater ended up missing?
Overall, I’m lazy and should have been double checking my claims. I know this. But you can’t fine me 6 million dollars and 16 total TPE because of something that the updater missed and can easily be labelled as just pure laziness, especially given who I am and what I've done in the past with my word inflator. That’s not who I am, I'm not a cheater, and it's wrong to punish me as such.
Consider this my appeal. I’ll be answering questions if anyone has them. I know this will most likely be unsuccessful, but I want to clear my name and tell everyone why this is a harsh punishment for a simple mistake that I should have been notified about MUCH sooner.
TL;DR: The simple and short answer is because I'm a fifteen year old BOY who's too popular in his city. I've put myself up on a pedestal due to my popularity in Saskatoon and so I carry it wherever I go. I'm the guy who I told myself I would never be and I hate it, so I'm trying to change it. I admit my wrongs, I attempt to correct my mistakes, and I'm listening to opinions while keeping myself open to critics. Honestly, the egotistical part just comes from, well, my inflated ego due to being at the top here, and being at the top in Saskatoon. Instagram creates a platform of instant gratification for me, and so it's hyper ego inflation at it's finest.
@ADwyer87 @`To12143` @Muford @tlk742 @DeathOnReddit
On September 29, I received both a PM on Discord and a note on my update page regarding me accidentally double-claiming Weeks 5 and 6 predictions and double claiming a PT. To add on to this (news to me at the time), I apparently double-claimed a few things in the past, a mock draft and a prediction PT… both over two months ago. I recognized my mistakes, though a bit confused as to why this wasn’t picked up earlier, especially the double-claims from August. I PMed both Bovo and BWIII regarding this matter and explained that I was sorry and I need to pay more attention to my claims, which is 100% true. So, I shottily fixed the claim, not noticing that I claimed Trivia 4 twice, receiving another warning for it. So 15 TPE later, I set out to fix the problem and pay extra attention to my claims this week (or claims from the past two weeks, as I haven’t been updated until yesterday. I checked the codes on each of my claims and confirmed that each code was unique, or in the case of equipment, applied correctly. Until around this past Friday. For some reason, looking over my build, I thought that I hadn’t gotten Extra Time After Practice. So, (on mobile), I added Pro ETAP to my bank claim (which even had extra time on it which I didn’t even see), and added it to my claims, adding an extra 8 TPE to my claim. This was sniffed out by the updater and I am now being punished for it.
The Punishment
I can assume that HO was notified about this incident after the second warning, and were then put in a position of determining whether this is just laziness or something that I've been doing deliberately. Note that, number one, I was notified of this and double-claimed a second time (by the way, this double-claim didn't affect anything because it was sniffed out before I was updated). If I was doing this deliberately, I probably would have stopped after the updating team realized I double-claimed for a whopping two times before then. Secondly, I'm lazy. I'll 100% admit that I'm lazy and I guess I do need to double check these things. I was told by the HO that I wouldn't be able to use a word-inflator for my PTs a week later (NOTE: something that I've been doing for a whole month before hand and didn't get a word for it. HO members even knew I was doing it, but why did they wait a month until they decide to warn me about it and nearly give me a punishment for it? However, that's not the issue here.). But I can just say that they made the wrong call in determining this as cheating. In theory, I should be getting punished for messing up something and getting warned twice over for it. When I originally saw that I messed up a claim again, I thought that I maybe would be getting a small fine for causing an inconvenience to the updaters. But no… I’m getting fined 16 TPE (double what I claimed) and 6 million dollars. To put this into perspective, this is a week’s worth of TPE for me and more than an entire season’s worth of money, twice that of what I paid for the extra time after practice. This isn’t much compared to what has been handed down by the HO in the past. Apparently, the last person to do this was suspended an entire season. But you see, he was doing this deliberately. I am in no way double-claiming on purpose. If I was, I would have stopped after Bovo’s original warning.
My Response
So, in review, I am being penalized an entire week’s worth of TPE, an entire season’s worth of money, and my reputation is being tainted all due to simple mistakes that should not be problems to begin with. The updating team is given the job to overview the claims that each player makes and make sure that they are updating correctly. With the updating system the way it is now, it’s pretty easy to make a simple double-claim on a post. I have done this a couple of times, specifically in AUGUST, and I was only notified of it at the end of September. I acknowledged this problem but wondered how those double-claims were able to be missed. The updating team should have let me know at least a little sooner so that I can correct my problem. But you have to understand that this shouldn’t be an issue in the first place. If the updating team is reviewing each update as they should be, double-claiming shouldn’t even be a thing, and it shouldn’t be something that anyone should be punished for, even if they were doing it on purpose. This should be chalked up to someone just making a simple mistake, especially in my case. Look, I’m lazy, I’ll say it outright. Hell, just a week ago I got told off by the HO for using a word inflator in my PTs for fuck’s sake. Up until this week, I didn’t even second guess my claims and I sure as hell never double checked them for double-claims. This should be the updating team’s job, and if someone double-claims, maybe check in with them and see if they know they’re double-claiming. In my case, there were only two cases of this, spread out through the entire month of August. I double-claimed again at the end of September, which made the updating team JUST NOW go ahead and double check all of my claims. Why am I being incriminated for a mistake that my updater ended up missing?
Overall, I’m lazy and should have been double checking my claims. I know this. But you can’t fine me 6 million dollars and 16 total TPE because of something that the updater missed and can easily be labelled as just pure laziness, especially given who I am and what I've done in the past with my word inflator. That’s not who I am, I'm not a cheater, and it's wrong to punish me as such.
Consider this my appeal. I’ll be answering questions if anyone has them. I know this will most likely be unsuccessful, but I want to clear my name and tell everyone why this is a harsh punishment for a simple mistake that I should have been notified about MUCH sooner.
TL;DR: The simple and short answer is because I'm a fifteen year old BOY who's too popular in his city. I've put myself up on a pedestal due to my popularity in Saskatoon and so I carry it wherever I go. I'm the guy who I told myself I would never be and I hate it, so I'm trying to change it. I admit my wrongs, I attempt to correct my mistakes, and I'm listening to opinions while keeping myself open to critics. Honestly, the egotistical part just comes from, well, my inflated ego due to being at the top here, and being at the top in Saskatoon. Instagram creates a platform of instant gratification for me, and so it's hyper ego inflation at it's finest.
@ADwyer87 @`To12143` @Muford @tlk742 @DeathOnReddit
[OPTION]Height: 5'10
[OPTION]Weight: 230
[OPTION]Birthplace: Pahokee, FL
[OPTION]Number: 28
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[OPTION]Regular Season Stats
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[OPTION]DSFL
[OPTION]SA S8: 1222 Yards | 264 Att | 15 TDs || 81 Yards | 14 Rec | 0 TDs
[OPTION]SA S9: 1665 Yards | 331 Att | 13 TDs || 92 Yards | 13 Rec | 0 TDs
[OPTION]NSFL
[OPTION]PHI S10: 1902 Yards | 452 Att | 7 TDs || 33 Yards | 6 Rec | 0 TDs
[OPTION]PHI S11: 1571 Yards | 365 Att | 15 TDs || 290 Yards | 52 Rec | 2 TDs
[OPTION]PHI S12: 1555 Yards | 375 Att | 15 TDs || 237 Yards | 30 Rec | 4 TDs
[OPTION]PHI S13: 1510 Yards | 318 Att | 14 TDs || 366 Yards | 39 Rec | 4 TDs
[OPTION]BAL S14: 1578 Yards | 368 Att | 16 TDs || 479 Yards | 62 Rec | 2 TDs
[OPTION]BAL S15: 1577 Yards | 350 Att | 14 TDs || 450 Yards | 59 Rec | 4 TDs
[OPTION]BAL S16: 1172 Yards | 260 Att | 13 TDs || 237 Yards | 31 Rec | 2 TDs
[OPTION]PHI S17: 897 Yards | 215 Att | 5 TDs || 212 Yards | 35 Rec | 2 TDs
[OPTION]CHI S18: 825 Yards | 196 Att | 4 TDs || 752 Yards | 61 Rec | 1 TDs
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[OPTION]Playoff Stats
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[OPTION]DSFL
[OPTION]SA S8: 145 Yards | 25 Att | 0 TDs || 4 Yards | 2 Catches | 0 TDs
[OPTION]SA S9: 71 Yards | 18 Att | 1 TDs || 15 Yards | 3 Catches | 0 TDs
[OPTION]NSFL
[OPTION]PHI S12: 136 Yards | 30 Att | 0 TDs || 27 Yards | 3 Catches | 0 TDs
[OPTION]PHI S13: 93 Yards | 17 Att | 1 TDs || 4 Yards | 1 Catches | 0 TDs
[OPTION]BAL S14: 127 Yards | 25 Att | 2 TDs || 21 Yards | 3 Catches | 0 TDs
[OPTION]BAL S15: 212 Yards | 47 Att | 2 TDS || 64 Yards | 5 Catches | 1 TDs
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[OPTION]Trophy Case/Achievements
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[OPTION]Records:
[OPTION]NSFL Most Rushing Yards In A Single Season (1902) (S10)
[OPTION]NSFL Most Rushing Attempts In A Single Season (452) (S10)
[OPTION]NSFL Most Rushing Yards Of All Time (12587)
[OPTION]NSFL Most Yards From Scrimmage Of All Time (15643)
[OPTION]Awards:
[OPTION]DSFL Offensive Player Of The Year (S8)
[OPTION]DSFL Offensive Player Of The Year (S9)
[OPTION]NSFL Offensive Player Of The Year (S10)
[OPTION]NSFL Offensive Player Of The Year (S13)
[OPTION]NSFL Runningback Of The Year (S12)
[OPTION]NSFL Runningback Of The Year (S13)
[OPTION]NSFL Runningback Of The Year (S14)
[OPTION]NSFL Runningback Of The Year (S15)
[OPTION]NSFL Most Valuable Player (S13)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S10)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S11)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S12)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S13)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S14)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S15)
[OPTION]NSFL Pro Bowl RB (S16)
[OPTION]NSFL Hall of Fame Inductee (S22)
[OPTION]Other:
[OPTION]Drafted 9th Overall In The S8 DSFL Draft To The San Antonio Marshals
[OPTION]Drafted 3rd Overall In The S9 NSFL Draft To The Philadelphia
Liberty