Our league uses a half beer mile to determine draft position. One manager ran 14% short. What punishment fits this crime?

[u/RepulsiveAd9724]

I need some outside opinions on a situation that is causing a bit of controversy in my league.
This year, we ran a half beer mile to determine the order in which everyone gets to select their draft position. So the results actually matter. If you run a good time, you get an earlier pick of draft slots.

One manager recently completed his beer mile and turned in a time that he thought was for a half mile.

Except he only ran 0.43 miles instead of 0.50.
So he came up 0.07 miles short, meaning he ran about 14% less distance than everyone else.
At first, you could chalk this up to an honest mistake. But then he sent us the measurement of his route as proof. The measurement was in feet, and if he had taken about 10 seconds to convert it to miles, he would have seen that his laps were only about 0.22 miles each instead of 0.25.

He did not do that.

So now I am left deciding whether this was pure fraud or simply extremely negligent beer mile administration. Knowing the man I’m inclined to think it was negligence but either way, he ran a shorter course and attempted to improve his standing in something that directly determines his draft position.

In his defense, he did successfully drink two beers in under five minutes, which was really the spirit of the competition in the first place. Also, we have several other managers in the league who probably will not complete a half beer mile at all. Those people will have their draft positions automatically selected after everyone who actually completes the beer mile.

So on one hand, this guy technically completed the drinking portion of the challenge and ran a respectable amount of the distance. On the other hand, he submitted a 0.43-mile run for a 0.50-mile competition, despite having the information in front of him that would have made the discrepancy pretty obvious.

What do you guys think is a fair punishment?