Originally Posted by pianoman

So I got some flak in particular from one of the GMs in a league I'm the commissioner of for kicking him out of the playoffs (along with another GM)

The reason was that by the middle of January, in a 16 team league, only 5 GMs had ponied up the necessary cash to be in the pool. I wanted the money in before the last place teams started thinking "why bother?" in reality, they're the ones who had all paid on time. So in order to get money in from all remaining interested parties, I had set a firm deadline of Feb 1st. Failure to pay meant automatic loss of playoff contention, regardless of your regular season finish. I extended this deadline to the start of the playoffs (yesterday) as an act of good faith, but the remaining delinquent GMs have yet to pay. So, following through on my promise, I edited the H2H schedule to exclude them from the playoffs.

I'm not interested in ceding groung to this guy because it's unfair to the GMs that have paid and not made the playoffs to say that this guy deserves a shot at their money without having taken a similar risk. He also had 4 months to get me what amounts to "walking around money". What I'm wondering is did I handle this appropriately?

I can still undo the change to the playoff setup if need be, but I don't want to. I worry about overstepping my bounds because this is my 1st time running a league. It's a ton of fun, but I don't want to ruin it. I'm pretty adamant about not becoming the babysitter, but am becoming a little unsure about where to draw the line between what's my responsibility and what's just a GM complaining about anything and everything.