# Penalty-free cuts issue

**URL:** https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985
**Category:** TechSupport
**Created:** [July 7, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985 "2026-07-07T20:24:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/phoekstra)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985/1 "2026-07-07T20:24:14Z")

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Hi - we had a new manager take over, and their penalty-free cuts also reset the salaries of the players they owned (including one they claimed on waivers after taking over) to $0. I found one other thread on this here [Waiver wire and cuts seemingly broken](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/waiver-wire-and-cuts-seemingly-broken/7286)

But it wasn’t clear to me as the commissioner whether I ought to intervene and reset the base salaries or whether this is working as it’s meant to, even if the interaction may not be directly intended.

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### Author: ![phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/phoekstra)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985/2 "2026-07-07T20:24:46Z")

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Sorry, that’s for league 1958 if you want to take a look. E.g. the Anthony cut

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### Author: ![nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/user_avatar/community.ottoneu.com/nivshah/32/613_2.png) [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985/3 "2026-07-07T20:52:14Z")

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This is working as intended and you can just let the auctions reset values for the cut players.

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### Author: ![phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@phoekstra](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/phoekstra)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985/4 "2026-07-08T18:16:18Z")

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Thanks!

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### Author: ![nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/user_avatar/community.ottoneu.com/nivshah/32/613_2.png) [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/penalty-free-cuts-issue/16985/5 "2026-07-09T09:58:19Z")

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> [@phoekstra](#):
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> working as it’s meant to, even if the interaction may not be directly intended

I meant to add that this is a perfect description of in-season penalty-free cuts resulting in no waiver claims or minimum bids.