The players who appear in the community spotlight are currently randomly generated--we do not manually pick players to highlight there. We'll look into improving how this is done.
speedy, our oversight in the tournament you refer to was an honest mistake. We manually verify each tournament when it closes, and this is something we missed. Once a tournament is verified we cannot change or redistribute credits without help from our engineers, the same with altering career earnings (it's not as simple as typing in a new number). We made a call, and decided not to take up resources that are being used to tackle higher priority issues and features.
Thanks for your understanding...