(03-04-2020, 03:20 AM)AdamS Wrote:Your logic has no bearing on decisions actually getting made. Thus my example of a real thing that actually happened. Two teams were earned with tampering if we talked to free agents in S15's offseason because we didn't play til S16. And the EXACT reasoning is that we didn't exist yet. So yes..teams that don't exist have in fact been warned about tampering.
So as it turns oh..that's not right. And maybe try to clapback less and pay attention more.
S15 situation is a bit different since we don't know currently who/what expansion teams will be, so there is no party that *could* tamper at this point in time. No one has been given GM authority of the expansion teams, and tampering is a team offense. Who exactly would be committing the tampering offense currently?
"Self-tampering" is a bullshit reasoning that can't ever happen, because that's called expressing your personal desires and planning for your player's future. Making it clear to FA suitors that you plan to play in the first season of expansion for an expansion team isn't tampering, it's communicating. If a team that doesn't exist yet gets punished for something their not-decided-yet GM didn't do for actions a player they didn't talk to did, then there is some ass-backwards underworkings to this league.