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Posted December 11, 2020 08:04 · last edited December 13, 2020 19:53

20 Legend wrote:

Looks like Auckland is losing the points: https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/98484

"As New Zealand Football was notified of the matter outside the 48-hour time limit afforded to clubs to protest a result, New Zealand Football did not initially issue a retrospective punishment instead advising the player was ineligible to play in future fixtures."

"citing that the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players is strict on matters of eligibility irrespective of any time limits set out in the competition regulations"

Essentially the RSTP overrules the competition rules. Some interesting thoughts at the end of this though:

  1. What stops teams from sitting on ineligibility information before appealing at the end of a tournament?
  2. Auckland self-reported. What's the incentive to do this in future? If they kept their mouths closed it likely never would have been picked up. (not proposing they should escape punishment, just interested to hear what people think)

The root cause of the problem is poor use of the database structure in COMET. The remedy is to use the unique player identifier field. Thus situations where players with the same name are accidentally interchanged (Auckland) or a player is registered with only one component of a hyphenated surname (FC2011 in 2017) would not occur. Just use the PlayerID field.

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Unknown editor edited December 13, 2020 19:53
20 Legend wrote:

Looks like Auckland is losing the points: https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/98484

"As New Zealand Football was notified of the matter outside the 48-hour time limit afforded to clubs to protest a result, New Zealand Football did not initially issue a retrospective punishment instead advising the player was ineligible to play in future fixtures."

"citing that the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players is strict on matters of eligibility irrespective of any time limits set out in the competition regulations"

Essentially the RSTP overrules the competition rules. Some interesting thoughts at the end of this though:

  1. What stops teams from sitting on ineligibility information before appealing at the end of a tournament?
  2. Auckland self-reported. What's the incentive to do this in future? If they kept their mouths closed it likely never would have been picked up. (not proposing they should escape punishment, just interested to hear what people think)
The root cause of the problem is poor design of the database structure in COMET. The remedy is to add a unique player identifier field. Thus situations where players with the same name are accidentally interchanged (Auckland) or a player is registered with only one component of a hyphenated surname (FC2011 in 2017) would not occur. Just add a PlayerID field.