Playing in Good Faith
No rulebook can name every way to play a game badly, and this one does not try. Playing in bad faith is a violation on its own — abusing a mechanic nobody thought to write down, manufacturing a result you did not earn, gaming the schedule, or reading a guideline's silence as permission. "It wasn't in the rulebook" is not a defense. The three principles above are the rulebook.
How it gets handled:
- Report it with the clip. Bring the timestamp through your league's complaint process, not the group chat. Evidence is what gets you taken seriously, and it is what protects you when someone files on you.
- The commissioner reviews the film. Both sides get heard.
- The ruling is case by case — weighed on severity, on intent, and on what that coach has done before. A first mistake and a pattern are not the same thing, and a ruling should not pretend they are.
A commissioner can correct a result, put a note on a coach's record, pull commits, or remove a coach from the league. Those are the teeth. They exist so the rest of this book can stay short.