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Originally Posted by WillieMaysHayes
My gripe with a few commissioners I have played with is free agency. They conduct imports, save the file name as something else (league-test.lg) and roll it a few weeks to see what everyone is offering. Then they can go back to the actual league.lg file and outbid you. I don't know how or what to suggest to Markus to alleviate this problem, but it's one of the biggest anti-cheat improvements they could make. The commissioner is in such a powerful position when bidding against clubs, and I am pretty sure it's been used against me at the very least a few times.
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Technically a commissioner doesn't have to sim ahead to see what people are bidding. It is far easier than that honestly. A commissioner pretty much has supreme authority/power over your game universe so to speak. It probably is best that everyone keep that in mind when thinking about joining a league.
It is pretty important that you join a league that has a Commissioner in it that you either fully trust or is highly reputable or you likely will end up constantly wondering if there is anything flaky going on behind the scenes. With the way players will suddenly flame out early, or last longer than normal, or get sudden talent bumps or injuries, there are simply far too many things every day that can happen on its own inside of OOTP to look fishy without the Commissioner even being involved. If you add to the mix a lack of trust for the Commissioner, then you are only asking for trouble at that point.
As someone else mentioned above, I made the decision a long time ago to not own a team in my two leagues that I run. I solely commish only to make sure everyone understands that I am completely impartial. I would like to think that every single member in my leagues trust me fully already but this takes any hint of concern away. I rarely have any openings in my leagues that I run, but I know that there are many other leagues that the commish only does that and does not run a team. If you are highly concerned about the possibility of the commish cheating, I encourage you to look into one of those leagues.
That said, I know dozens and dozens of fine members of the OOTP community that commish as well as run a team in the league and do so with great integrity. Remember when joining a league that the interview process should be two-ways. The Commish should be trying to determine if you are the right fit for their league but you also need to make sure that the league is the right fit for you as well. Don't be afraid to ask them questions or talk about concerns that might scare you to see how they normally handle such things. If they are upset by that or put off by that, then it might just not be the right league for you anyways.
As for the Accountability tools, it is not that uncommon in security software to have an audit log of changes for accountability reasons. I'm guessing that they could add an audit log to online actions in a future version of OOTP if they feel the demand is worth the time involved to add it to the game. I would recommend as a previous poster said to post in the suggestions for future versions to make sure that it gets proper visibility for their planning as well as allows a larger audience of people to comment regarding it as well.