Prompt Wrote:You have just signed a contract with your new ISFL team, you check your bank balance and find out there is an extra 4 million in your bank account from that same contract. What do you do? Do you tell your GM, or do you go and spend the money? Why? If you keep the money what do you spend it on?
I would definitely tell my GM. At this point in my career, I like to think that I've established a good and stable working relationship with the team and for a clear error like that I definitely respect them enough to help correct it. Additionally, the implications are really concerning. I figure it would be most likely that I received another player's contract deposit instead of my own and so that there's one of my teammates who didn't get the money expected from this year's contract. Or, if it was actually a double payment, it could potentially have negative cap implications if the league decided that it counted as a bonus and needed to adhere to the budget limitations. I don't know if we're close to the cap max or not, but I do know that the GMs need flexibility with cap space to make the best with moves at different times. Taking away that large a chunk of it due to a mistake (or worse, losing picks or having fines levied) is definitely not worth getting a bit more cash for myself.
Now that being said, if it was an intentional bonus and intended for me, I'd probably earmark most of it towards my plans for an Austin-focused charity. I'm approaching retirement and Austin has meant a lot to me, so I want to help give back even after I've left the team. It's still a couple years out so I don't have a specific focus yet, but I think that would be a great way to help repay the team and the community.
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