mrushh
02-02-2003, 09:30 PM
Hattrick Bretheren,
My team, Texas Miracle, was closed recently due to improper transfers. I wrote the following letter to Global (GM-Apoc, who said I had a made a good case and good luck), but I needed to send this to Usa, who responded that he was not opening my team. I assume I was turned in by someone who didn't like getting beat...
Please read the following and tell me if it looks like cheating, because I still don't think so. I guess I should have been smarter and not traded with my friend, but I didn't (don't) see how either of us benefited to the detriment of other players (they could have gotten the same players, none was highly overpriced).
Any questions will be answered and, yes, I have a new team.
the_herd, you win round 2 of the cup. Good luck.
It says you read all e-mail, and I hope that is true. I contacted you before, but I don't know how long it takes, so I apologize if it seems I am flooding you with messages, but the cheating page says you reopen accounts if cheating has not occurred.
I don't think what I did was cheating, though my interpretation of the rules, as written, may be incorrect. The rules say I may contact other owners, and that's what I did, in effect, since the other owner, Gargoyle F.C., is a co-worker, and we talk about Hattrick a good bit since he got a team a couple weeks ago.
The other accused team and I made, I believe, 5 transactions. I don't know if that is excessive, but I ask you to consider the following:
- there were 5 players involved, I think, total.
- the total value of these players is only $217,000
- the total paid was $271,000
- the DIFFERENCE, that is, the PROFIT, if you call it that, of one team over the other was ONLY $15,000
- NONE of the players, if I remember (I can't enter to look at them), was even CLOSE to what would be considered a very good player
- Gargoyle, being a new team, had MANY needs
- Texas Miracle, an older team, had several lower level players
- ALL players were put on transfer
- NO player was bought OR sold for more than $27,000 more than their value
This does not seem like a PROFIT, CHEATING, TRANSFER MONEY scheme to me...not even close. With all the players and money flying around, I don't see how transactions that netted a team ONLY $15,000 one way or the other could EVEN be seen as corruption.
Any other information you need, please ask. I do not feel anyone profited monetarily or otherwise from anything done, nor do I feel any rules were broken as the rules are read, at least not intentionally. Thank you for your time.
My team, Texas Miracle, was closed recently due to improper transfers. I wrote the following letter to Global (GM-Apoc, who said I had a made a good case and good luck), but I needed to send this to Usa, who responded that he was not opening my team. I assume I was turned in by someone who didn't like getting beat...
Please read the following and tell me if it looks like cheating, because I still don't think so. I guess I should have been smarter and not traded with my friend, but I didn't (don't) see how either of us benefited to the detriment of other players (they could have gotten the same players, none was highly overpriced).
Any questions will be answered and, yes, I have a new team.
the_herd, you win round 2 of the cup. Good luck.
It says you read all e-mail, and I hope that is true. I contacted you before, but I don't know how long it takes, so I apologize if it seems I am flooding you with messages, but the cheating page says you reopen accounts if cheating has not occurred.
I don't think what I did was cheating, though my interpretation of the rules, as written, may be incorrect. The rules say I may contact other owners, and that's what I did, in effect, since the other owner, Gargoyle F.C., is a co-worker, and we talk about Hattrick a good bit since he got a team a couple weeks ago.
The other accused team and I made, I believe, 5 transactions. I don't know if that is excessive, but I ask you to consider the following:
- there were 5 players involved, I think, total.
- the total value of these players is only $217,000
- the total paid was $271,000
- the DIFFERENCE, that is, the PROFIT, if you call it that, of one team over the other was ONLY $15,000
- NONE of the players, if I remember (I can't enter to look at them), was even CLOSE to what would be considered a very good player
- Gargoyle, being a new team, had MANY needs
- Texas Miracle, an older team, had several lower level players
- ALL players were put on transfer
- NO player was bought OR sold for more than $27,000 more than their value
This does not seem like a PROFIT, CHEATING, TRANSFER MONEY scheme to me...not even close. With all the players and money flying around, I don't see how transactions that netted a team ONLY $15,000 one way or the other could EVEN be seen as corruption.
Any other information you need, please ask. I do not feel anyone profited monetarily or otherwise from anything done, nor do I feel any rules were broken as the rules are read, at least not intentionally. Thank you for your time.