I've been helping PDog with his build techniques for several seasons now, and I do believe him that it was a mistake - as he has had gear expire a few times on teams I coach for as well ... sometimes right as we were hitting the playoffs.
1) Told him several times that permanent CEQ is a MUCH better deal with the flex return at the end, but he can't help himself building WAY too many dots to try to help fill out all the WLE teams, and a few others outside the WLE, and it gets to where paying that 1100 flex up front is just too expensive for him. To me the answer is simple, just build what you can afford, but easier said than done for some of us, and I have a hard time faulting him for wanting to help too many teams fill out their rosters ...
2) Told him to stop building the CEQ at all sort of weird times if he's going to do temporary ones, because having them expiring on the 4th, 11th, 24th, 29th, etc. days of the season, when he's got like 50 dots to keep track of ... is basically the definition of insanity. That one is hard to justify ... it's doubling down on being derpy with rentals in the first place.
So fault him all you want for being an idjit in how he handles his CEQ, but I 100% do not believe it was malicious, just simply being overloaded with too many dots to keep tabs on.
That said, the folks that THINK he was cheating, have been in turn now screwing over teams not even related to him, zero warning retirements, etc. etc. Causing collateral damage just because they're WLE? Kinda bullshit, and 100% intentional. So while we're calling PDog out - maybe something to consider that the other side ain't exactly smelling like roses either, and I've been burned a couple times now by people I had nothing but respect for.