Chico,
Agreed. The second half of #4 is puzzling. It must be an attempt to restrict the use of guest playing as a recruiting tool, as if the existing rules against in-season recruiting were not enough. I typically don't favor adding rules unless there is a problem that a rule can correct. Is there a high incidence of players transferring to teams for which they have guest played? Or is this rule a reaction to minority occurances? In the latter case, I would be for dealing with the exceptions, not punishing everyone with a restrictive rule.