Clarifications to Regression procedures

[Canadice]

Regression

This season is the second time we will see Regression affecting players in the league. We realized after last season that we needed to clarify some of the procedures regarding regression and after some weeks of discussion, there are now some clarifications implemented in the Rulebook.

To summarize:

- we have clarified what can be regressed, either banked TPE or TPE from attributes, but restricted the amount of "extra" TPE that can be regressed from attributes.



- we have clarified who and when the regression updates should be posted and given more power to the managers to submit a regression update for players who has not done so prior to the deadline. It is only players that may submit a regression update containing any new claims, so in the case a manager submits an update, the player will lose any unclaimed earnings.



- we have also clarified punishments for late submissions, both clearly specifying that a player is ineligible to play until the regression update has been processed AND that there are punishments for late submissions after the deadline.



BoD and Commissioner

[Berocka]

What is the reasoning behind not having regression just an automatic amount that doesn't need as much rules and regulations around it.

[Canadice]

For context, the first two rules of the section are given here, which we haven't changed since the last revision.

QUOTE (Berocka @ Jul 24 2023, 02:51 PM)

What is the reasoning behind not having regression just an automatic amount that doesn't need as much rules and regulations around it.

I'm not sure how you mean regression being automated. The amount of TPE that a player needs to regress is based on a percentage of earned TPE at the time of the regression post. The issue is that it's impossible to automatically remove TPE from a player as they most likely have unclaimed earnings that are not part of the preliminary calculations on the post.

A couple of the other sim leagues have (or will soon publish) an update/league portal where the portal itself handles all earnings and automatically claims the TPE that is then to be regressed. It is then possible to automatically remove TPE from the bank before the player regresses any attributes AND to programmatically restrict the amount of TPE that is removed. Because we are still using the equivalent of "pen and paper" we wanted to give players some form of flexibility.